Review

Dripping with deliciously mordant one-liners, this outlandish sequel to The Addams Family is a possibly funnier outing than the original. Morticia (the unearthly and serene Huston) has a baby, Pubert, much to the delight of Gomez (Julia) and most of the family. The children, Pugsly and Wednesday, however, see the little nipper as nothing more than a usurper and respond to his arrival with murderous zeal. The kids are soon dragged off to summer camp by the baby's new nanny (Cusack), a gold-digging black widow with designs on Fester (Lloyd). This broad plot outline is ripe with hilariously morbid jokes and is a sly fable on the revenge of the outcasts.