Every Addams Family Movie Ranked From Worst To Best

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With the 2021 animated sequel The Addams Family 2 recently continuing the franchise's legacy, how do all of the Addams Family movies rank in comparison with each other? The Addams Family began life as a series of morbidly funny cartoons by Charles Addams for The New Yorker in the 1930s. Combining cute family comedy with some surprisingly dark punchlines, the cartoons were a huge hit that spawned multiple TV shows and movies, both live-action and animated.

The first Addams Family movie came in the form of 1977’s television movie Halloween With The New Addams Family, and it would be over a decade before the brood appeared in feature-length form on-screen again. Starring Anjelica Huston, Raul Julia, and Back to the Future’s Doc Brown Christopher Lloyd, 1991’s The Addams Family was a campy, financially successful reinvention of the titular clan. However, the movie was not a big hit with critics, thanks to its uneven tone.

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1993 saw the family return to cinema screens with Addams Family Values, a darker sequel that disappointed at the box office but earned better reviews than its predecessor. As is the fate of most franchises that fail to make a splash at the box office, the Addams Family were soon relegated to a direct-to-video sequel in the form of 1998’s Addams Family Reunion. With a new cast, this outing failed to make the same impact as the original movies, and the next time the clan appeared onscreen was in 2019’s The Addams Family. An animated effort from the Madagascar movie franchise mastermind Conrad Vernon, this outing was a massive financial success despite earning mixed reviews. As a result, a sequel was all but inevitable, and sure enough, 2021