Addams Family Reunion

Addams Family Reunion
Addams Family Reunion VHS cover
Directed by	Dave Payne
Written by	Charles Addams(characters) Rob Kerchner Scott Sandin
Produced by	Mike Elliott
Starring	Tim Curry Daryl Hannah Ed Begley, Jr Ray Walston Kevin McCarthy Estelle Harris Carel Struycken
Cinematography	Christian Sebaldt
Edited by	J. J. Jackson
Music by	Amotz Plessner
Distributed by	Warner Brothers
Release date	1998
Running time	91 min.
Country	USA
Language	English

The Addams Family Reunion was the third movie of the The Addams Family series, released in 1998. However, most members of the cast did not return to this direct-to-video installment; Raul Julia had died, and Christina Ricci and Jimmy Workman at the ages of 18 were considered too old to play the children. In the end only Carel Struycken and Christopher Hart reprised their roles.

Plot

Discovering his grandparents had developed "Walazhiemer's Disease", Gomez organised a family reunion in the hope of finding a cure. Unfortunately, the company who arranged the reunion mis-spelt his surname and reunited him with the Adams family instead. This plot was felt to be inconsistent with the previous films; the Addams Family had always been a close-knit family and in the first film arranged a party that consisted of the "entire clan".

Some fans felt that the sequel lacked the macabre humour of the previous films and was inferior to them, while others really liked it. As of 2007, there are no plans for a fourth film. So far the film is only avalible on VHS and has not had a DVD release.

Cast:

• Tim Curry as Gomez Addams
• Daryl Hannah as Morticia Addams
• Pat Thomas as Uncle Fester
• Carel Struycken as Lurch--continuing from the previous two movies
• Christopher Hart as Thing--continuing from the previous two movies
• Alice Ghostley as Granny Frump
• Nicole Fugere as Wednesday Addams
• Jerry Messing as Pugsley Addams
• Kevin McCarthy as Grandpa Addams
• Estelle Harris as Grandma Addams

Trivia

• This movie shed some light on Lurch´s family history, Gomez stadted that Lurch was not a full Addams, he is also part Morcowski, part Coen, part Vergasso, part Murtagh, and part Torrence. Morticia said that she wasn't sure of where Lurch´s kidneys came from. Gomez said that Lurch had the heart of an Addams. This may suggest that Lurch is some kind of Frankenstein monster, in the Addams Family books he is often discribed as "an experiment that Baron Frankenstein forgot".
• When Lurch retrieves the woman from the pool, it is a play on Frankenstein.
• Though they were at a wrong reunion, Pugsley had a crush on a girl that to his knowledge was related to him.
• This movie has (just like the two previous movies) a dancenumber, Gomez and Morticia dances a Mambo (dance).

External links

• Addams Family Reunion at IMDb