Tim Curry is right up amongst the top brilliant actors, and I've always admired the acting of Daryl Hannah and Ray Walston as well. But their skills are completely hidden in this movie. They were all hopelessly miscast, and misdirected, with a childish script. A complete disaster all round. Gone is the clever, witty, black humour. Gone are the cleverly portrayed demented characters. Gone is the magic of the Addams superb support, understanding and love for each other. Watch the TV series over and over. See the first two Addams Family movies too, relishing every moment. And avoid this awful movie like the plague.

Addams Family Reunion starts with Gomez Addams (Tim Curry) receiving a book through the post containing the name of every Addams that has ever lived. Gomez contacts a family reunion agency & receives a invitation back inviting him & his family to a family reunion to meet his distant relatives. Meanwhile it appears that Grandpa (Kevin McCarthy) & Grandma Addams (Estelle Harris) are suffering from 'Waltzheimers', a condition that turns the suffer normal. Gomez his wife Morticia (Daryl Hannah) their two children Wednesday (Nicole Fugere) & Pugsley (Jerry Messing), Grandpa & Grandma plus uncle Fester (Patrick Thomas) & Lurch (Carel Struycken) all set of for the family reunion at 'Primrose Resort'. It turns out that the family union agency mixed the invites up & the Addams received the wrong invite & are caught in a plot by Phillip Adams (Ed Begley Jr.) & his sister Katherine (Hilary Shepard) to get a larger slice of their rich father's fortune. Much hilarity ensues, not.This straight-to-video continuation of the Addams Family franchise was directed by Dave Payne & is a bit of a travesty. This is the third entry in the series after The Addams Family (1991) & Addams Family Values (1993) which were very good films, Addams Family Reunion isn't. The dark Gothic look, feel & droll jokes are gone, the creepiness, the morbidness & the dark black humour are gone. Intsead it is replaced with unfunny family friendly slapstick, an explosion which leaves someone covered in soot or an electric shock which leaves someone's hair standing up for instance, really unfunny jokes that are as old as time itself & the usual fish-out-of-water shenanigan's that one would expect from the Addams Family visiting a luxurious modern day holiday resort. At the same time the missing normal Adams Geoff (Rodger Halston) & Melinda (Heidi Lenhart) who end up at the Addams family mansion & that's just the same as what's happening at the resort but the other way around. This is squarely aimed at a pre-teen audience but I doubt even they would find much here to amuse themselves with. I also thought the 'Waltzheimers' disease joke was in very poor taste.Director Payne films like a TV film & while it's competent it lacks any style. The special effects are truly terrible, from a post box with a tongue of infinite length which looks awful to a vicious black poodle that looks like a five year old animated it. The CGI in the Addams Family Reunion is really embarrassing to watch, even the kids won't be impressed.With an obviously low budget the film looks very cheap throughout & loses the fantastic Gothic horror film inspired production design from the first two & replaces it with cardboard sets & cheap props. The acting is pretty bad especially from Curry who is awful & has no subtlety in his performance whatsoever. Hannah as Mortica is quite good & pretty sexy, a pity she is given next to nothing to do other than stand next to Gomez. Clint Howard makes an uncredited appearance & when he goes uncredited you know your in trouble.Addams Family Reunion is a miserable attempt at a kids comedy, the dark Gothic edge & undertones form the originals are sorely lacking & replaced with really unfunny gags & slapstick. Might keep undemanding kids quiet but anyone else will have have a hard time liking it.

This movie was nothing like the first two. Though I admit The Addams Family Values was better than the original, they did not have to replace the entire cast. The only reason this movie was halfway decent is because Charles Addams helped write the screenplay just as he did for the first two. They could have kept Anjelica Huston, Christopher Lloyd, Christina Ricci, and Jimmy Workman (Pugsley). But noooooo! They had to replace that wonderful cast with a terrifying cast (in a bad way). I must admit that they could have kept Tim Curry. He IS second-best after Raul Julia. If you like this movie I suggest you see Cool World. If you like that, then it is for sure, you're demented.

The Addams Family came out in 91, and it was a huge hit. Then the sequel came out 2 years later in 93, also being a hit. Now number 3 is out, the Addams Family Reunion, a horrribly stupid bad acted(except for Tim Curry and Daryl Hannah) movie. The plot was stupid, the characters were ALL different. Now I know they had to get rid of the kids from the first two, because as you can see Wednesday who was played by Christina Ricci in the first two is now an adult, making movies like Sleeping Hollow. But they could of casted better Wednesdays and Pugsleys for the Reunion, I mean these kids could not act at all and everything thy did was stupid. Uncle Fester who in the first 2 was played by Christopher LLoyd(and brilliantly may I add), now they have some hyper active freak who goes around yelling and screaming like a two year old doing stupid pranks...It was then that it hit me, this new movie was not intended to be a sequel to the previous two. It was supposed to be a movie about the new Fox show "THE NEW ADDAMS FAMILY", and no way related to the old Addams family. This movie was a huge flop and dissapointment and no wonder they decided to put it on video. If they had released it in the theater it would of made absolutely nothing and they would've gone broke. 1/5 stars, it was horribly stupid, and I mean HORRIBLY stupid of a movie to make....