The Addams Family 2-Movie Collection Blu-ray Review
By Paul Rudoff on Oct. 22, 2019 at 6:41 PM in Home Video, Horror
October is one of my favorite times of the year. I love all of the Halloween movies and specials, and in the lead-up to the 31st, I'm going to tell you about a few new releases perfect for the Ghostbusters' busiest night of the year. Today, I'll take a look at The Addams Family 2-Movie Collection Blu-ray. Read on to find out more...
The Addams Family (1991) and its sequel Addams Family Values (1993), both directed by Barry Sonnenfeld, feature a cast lead by Raul Julia, Anjelica Huston, Christopher Lloyd, and Christina Ricci. In The Addams Family, Gomez (Raul Julia) and Morticia (Anjelica Huston) plan a celebration to wake the dead when long-lost Uncle Fester (Christopher Lloyd) reappears after spending 25 years in the Bermuda Triangle. However, Wednesday (Christina Ricci) barely has time to warm up her electric chair before Thing points out Fester's uncommonly "normal" behavior. Could this Fester be a fake, part of an evil scheme to raid the Addams fortune? In Addams Family Values, Gomez (Raul Julia) and Morticia (Anjelica Huston) welcome a new addition to the Addams household - Pubert, their soft, cuddly, mustachioed baby boy. As Fester (Christopher Lloyd) falls hard for voluptuous nanny Debbie Jilinksy (Joan Cusack), Wednesday (Christina Ricci) and Pugsley (Jimmy Workman) discover she's a black-widow murderess who plans to add Fester to her collection of dead husbands. The family's future grows even bleaker when the no-good nanny marries Fester and has the kids shipped off to summer camp.
These films were my first exposure to the Addams Family, even before the 1964 TV series with John Astin and Carolyn Jones. It was also my first exposure to the beautiful awesomeness that is Christina Ricci, seen more recently in the TV series Pan Am. I've always preferred the Addams Family to The Munsters because they're a little more delightfully macabre, and no more is that evident than in these two films.
Everything in both films works well. The actors are perfect in their roles. If you didn't think Christopher Lloyd could escape from the shadows of Doc Brown and Jim Ignatowski, wait until you see him as Uncle Fester. Production design is magnificent. What I wouldn't give to have visited those sets in person. The high definition of Blu-ray helps show off details that DVD hides. Director Sonnenfeld shows off some of the weirdness that would shine in Men in Black a few years later.
Addams Family is presented in a 1.78:1 aspect ratio with a runtime of 1:39:38. Audio languages include English, French, and Spanish. The film includes English SDH, French, and Spanish subtitles. Addams Family Values is presented in a 1.78:1 aspect ratio with a runtime of 1:34:12. Audio languages include English, French, Spanish, Italian, German, and Japanese. The film includes English, English SDH, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Spanish, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, Norwegian, and Swedish subtitles. The first print run includes a beautiful slipsleeve.
The only bonus features can be found on the first movie's disc.
- The Addams Family - Theatrical Trailer #1 (1:21)
- The Addams Family - Theatrical Trailer #2 (1:28)
The Addams Family 2-Movie Collection is available on Blu-ray, 2-disc DVD, and 1-disc DVD (with two trailers for each film). The individual films are also available on Blu-ray separately: The Addams Family (1991) and Addams Family Values (1993).
All images were taken from the IMDB gallery of the films here and here. This item has been provided by Paramount for review on this site.
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