Caution: This is not a bad movie. Yes, we’re one sentence in, and I’ve already broken a major Bad Movies We Love rule. Addams Family Values is perfectly cast, hilarious, and the best showcase of Joan Cusack’s insanity since she wore clown leper makeup in Working Girl . But Addams Family Values qualifies as a BMWL because it’s a freakishly dated ’60s sitcom making a go of ’90s family fare, an ooky onslaught of puns and one-liners, and a movie so ridiculous that its theme song is the Tag Team opus “Addams Family (Whoomp).” It’s a Bad Movie We Love because rational filmmakers would’ve never let it happen, but somehow this goofy riot prevailed. Thank God.
