But what makes it the best summer camp movie of all time - in addition to being the best Thanksgiving movie and a solid contender for the best sequel ever - is that Rudnick was able to Trojan horse a scathing and insightful satire of American conformity and cultural genocide inside the exceedingly commercial form of a follow-up to a blockbuster. Rudnick boldly chose to make the sequel to Barry Sonnenfeld’s adaptation of Charles Addams’ comic strip a Thanksgiving movie and a Summer camp movie despite Thanksgiving happening months after the end of summer camp season and neither Thanksgiving nor summer camp seeming like a natural fit for America’s first family of spookiness.Īddams Family Values soars as a culture clash comedy featuring ‘80s-style-slobs-versus-snobs. Novelist, playwright, Movieline columnist, and all-around wit Paul Rudnick did such a good job punching up Caroline Thompson and Larry Wilson’s screenplay for the smash hit 1991 comedy The Addams Family that he got the gig writing the even better, if less commercially successful, 1993 sequel. And you need to watch it before it leaves Netflix. It’s an ode to revolutionaries, an incitement to rebellion. Its wicked social commentary, taken from the perspective of perplexed outsider kids, makes it a better summer camp movie than such apogees of the form as Wet Hot American Summer, Meatballs, and Ernest Goes to Camp. The movie is the 1993 sequel, Addams Family Values. The best summer camp movie isn’t what you might expect.
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