In fact, “…and ghoulish antics ensue” turns out to be virtually the only move The Addams Family 2 has in its arsenal, although it does also come out with a staggeringly unappetising subplot about the ongoing efforts of younger brother Pugsley (Javon Walton) – who’s meant to be, what, nine years old? – to practice his chat-up technique on any girl who comes into range. They’ve opted for an almost wilfully unimaginative prologue in which eldest daughter Wednesday, voiced by Chloë Grace Moretz, wreaks havoc at her school science fair: she carries out some kind of brain fluid transfusion between Nick Kroll’s Uncle Fester and an octopus, and ghoulish antics ensue. It’s hard to know where to start, not least because its makers clearly didn’t. But even more so than its already largely forgotten predecessor, released in 2019, this trial-by-CG finds the premise running on the wispiest of fumes. A 1950s sitcom, two full animated series plus numerous spin-offs, and a brace of Tim Burton-esque live-action features in the early 1990s, both directed by Barry Sonnenfeld, is not a media portfolio to be sniffed at. No one could dispute that this eerie clan of old-money eccentrics, created by the cartoonist Charles Addams in the 1930s, have had a good run. But once the film is over, you may nevertheless find yourself repeatedly muttering them under your breath. True, these ones can’t be set to music quite as easily. Now here are some terms which describe the versions of them that appear in The Addams Family 2: vapid, vacant, shoddily animated, stupefyingly unfunny, and generally unbearable to be around. PG cert, 93 mins.Ĭreepy, kooky, mysterious, spooky, ooky: these are famously the five qualities all members of the Addams Family possess.
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