Streaming tonight: Cute Baby with a Mustache is a better sequel than the first movie!

The arrival of Puberty, Morticia and Gomez’s third child, sows discord in the Addams clan. Taking care of her arouses the jealousy of Wednesday and Pugsley, who will try everything to eliminate her. As for his nurse, Debbie, an appetizing blonde, she’ll turn Gomez’s crazy brother Fetid…

“The original is better!” We hear regularly. This is often true. But there are exceptions, where the sequel turns out to be better than the original film, or even surpass it.

In 1991, Barry Sonnenfeld brilliantly brought to the big screen a family (non)adventure as deadly as it is iconic and hilarious: The Addams Family. The filmmaker is admittedly aided in his task by a fantastic cast of actors at the peak of their form. From Christopher Lloyd as the priceless Uncle Fetid to the late Raul Julia as the unforgettable Gomez, his wife Morticia (Anjelica Huston) and their children Wednesday (Christina Ritchie) and Pugsley (Jimmy Workman). Everything is filled with iconic scenes (Mamushka dance!!!)

Barely two years later, on the strength of the first opus’ $191 million at the international box office, Sonnenfeld set the table again for a sequel that managed to top the first installment, with The Addams Family Values; The sequel is even funnier and darker than the first part.

Between having a psychopathic nanny and having a baby with a mustache, a carbon copy of Gomez called Puberte (!) was already enough to satisfy us. But that was without taking into account the brilliant and brutal (un)adventures of the Addams children at a Chippewa summer camp, even giving birth to a romance worthy of Romeo and Juliet. Worship!

Unsurprisingly, the sequel flopped at the box office as it didn’t even bring in $50 million. A cruel injustice that you can help right by discovering this piece of junk on Paramount+. A franchise can be pretty washed out between a spin-off, an animated film, a reboot or a new adaptation, we always go back to the basics!