Addams Family Values is a 1993 sequel to the 1991 comedy The Addams Family. The movie was written by Paul Rudnick and directed by Barry Sonnenfeld, and many cast members from the original returned for the sequel, including Raul Julia, Anjelica Huston, Christopher Lloyd, and Christina Ricci. Compared to its predecessor, which retained something of the madcap approach of the 1960s sitcom, Values is played more for macabre laughs. As a result, the film was met with more critical praise, earning a 76% rating on Rotten Tomatoes, as opposed to its predecessor's 58%.
This was Raul Julia's last movie to be released while he was still alive.

Plot

The movie opens as Morticia calmly gives birth to a baby boy, Pubert; the older children, Wednesday and Pugsley, immediately develop an extreme case of sibling rivalry as well as affect a tradition that "when a new baby is born, one of the other children has to die." Thus, they make numerous attempts to kill the baby. When Gomez and Morticia try to hire a nanny, the children frighten them all away. The last applicant, Debbie Jellinsky, seems to be made of sterner stuff; however, she's also a serial killer known as "The Black Widow," who's set her sights on Uncle Fester and the vast Addams fortune. On television's "America's Most Disgusting Unsolved Crimes" it is revealed that Debbie has been traveling in disguise for quite some time, marrying rich men just to kill them and claim their fortunes. When Wednesday becomes suspicious of Debbie's interest in Fester's money, Debbie persuades Gomez and Morticia to send the older children to Camp Chippewa, a summer camp for privileged children. The parents seem horrified at the thought of doing so, but Debbie tells them to just send Wednesday and Pugsley, even though she's sure that they'll deny ever wanting to go. And so, Gomez and Morticia take the children to Chippewa.