Malibu I can forgive, BUT PASTELS?!? Addams Family Values Reaction | First Time Watching

[@NiaMakiReacts]

This was more grown up than I expected hahaha, the full length can be found here: www.patreon.com/posts/115552742?

[@LizardBrainMinerals]

I love how dedicated they are as parents. Kids want to go to camp? Don’t understand it but they’ll go to the best camp we can find. Baby is possessed and painfully cute? Rot in a cheery room and read Cat in the Hat. Total parental goals.

[@NiaMakiReacts]

Yeah man!!!! Morticia and Ripley are my new heroes

[@asterix7842]

"I'll be the victim!" "All your life." The best line of the movie 🤣

[@NiaMakiReacts]

😂 😂 😂 it was perfect! Just as good as mom’s burns

[@3Rayfire]

The ongoing Roast of Amanda Buckman is eternally iconic, ending of course in the literal roast of Amanda Buckman.

[@dlweiss]

I've always appreciated that Debbie receives "Pastels?" as PRECISELY the nuclear-level burn it's intended as, and reacts accordingly.

[@NiaMakiReacts]

🤣 🤣 she did!

[@Kookie_Crumb]

It took me AGES to work out that it's because pastels are the cheapest colours to make!

[@kavtoM]

I love how well Margaret integrated into the family, while also keeping her cheerful colors and disposition. She seems so happy with cousin It, and the Addamses love her as their own. Debbie could have had all that.

[@ImJustHereWithaBeer]

Debbie was a homicidal maniac and would've fit in perfectly with the Addams family if she wasn't so greedy.

[@BeeWhistler]

There’s a great drawing on Tumblr of her having tea with Morticia, talking about her latest attempt to kill Fester, and Morticia smiling and saying she was relieved they were having fun.

[@medranowendy408]

​@@BeeWhistler ima need a link, PLEASE

[@chronosclaimsall]

Honestly it wasn't even the greed. If she wasn't lying in her slide presentation then the problem was that she just didn't *believe* that they could love her just as she was

[@silvsevie]

it wasn't even the greed, they agreed she deserved jewels and money, She could've had everything if she truly started to love Fester and the family and accepted their love.

[@thuhuong8838]

Fun fact: Gomez Addams in the top 5 of the richest man in fiction. He even estimates to be richer than Bruce Wayne. He got properties in swamp, mines, morgues. This is not because he is a genius businessman but because he has whimsical luck and success in everything he does. Anything he invested, he gain major profits. This also explains his martial art skills.

[@NiaMakiReacts]

Whaaaaaaaaaa!!!! I never even thought about how rich he was but it could be quantified hhahah love it!

[@brandontrammel4581]

​@@NiaMakiReacts yep and he doesn't care about money or things he literally gives it away and it multiplies back even more because of his luck. One famous episode Gomez gets sad because he literally can't lose at anything. Everything he tries ends up being a million times better for him. He's finally happy at the end because he's a failure at failing.

[@tgiacin435]

@@brandontrammel4581i liked in the 90s Addams show, in the first episode, they take in 2 bank robbers thinking they’re trick or treaters, and gives the robbers a crap ton of money cause they thought the other houses were giving out money

[@tgiacin435]

Technically it’s all Fester’s since he was the older brother, but after he disappeared, all the Addams’ properties were signed over to Gomez. And it all technically went back to Fester in the first movie. But I’m guessing Fester signed it back over to Gomez after all that. I’d hate to be the judge that had to listen to that story.

[@brandontrammel4581]

@@tgiacin435 I remember that episode. Gomez was literally giving them stacks of money and being nice to them everytime they'd try and run the cops would do up. The robbers finally give up and turn themselves in. It also shows how tho rich the Addams don't care about material things and even with their wackiness are some of the nicest and kindest and tolerant welcoming people.

[@Applejack30three]

I just loved how supportive they all were when Ms Debbie was going over her Malibu Barbie drama!

[@NiaMakiReacts]

The tear from Morticia 😂

[@nikoblack1272]

i adore how dramatic Gomez is, such a theater kid😂

[@ronweber1402]

No scenery was left unchewed.

[@carlop.7182]

You're very attentive to details: the snobbish girl at the summer camp was indeed the girl selling girl scout cookies in the first movie (at the lemonade stand)--well done.

[@heathergarnham9555]

She's Harmony in Buffy

[@nikoblack1272]

Jamal's little eyeroll always gets me😂

[@OrangeTestament]

There are tons of quotable moments in this movie, but for some reason, the one that I *always* think of is: “A BUICK!!” Gomez was completely unhinged in this one and I loved every second of it 😂

[@NiaMakiReacts]

I cut that moment out but I was like.. what’s wrong with a Buick 😂 I don’t know anything about cars

[@OrangeTestament]

@ To this day, I still don’t know either, but it’s the way he says it that always gets me 😂 like a Buick is the worst thing in the world lol!

[@CERULEANSPIRAL]

@@NiaMakiReacts Likely because it's a "respectable" upper-middle-class car. To see adjacent sentiments regarding Buicks in another great (but totally different style) movie, see: Where the Heart Is starring Natalie Portman, featuring Stockard Channing and Ashley Judd.

[@monsoon1234567890]

"You are Mister Debbie!" is one of my favorite lines from the movie

[@agenttheater5]

The police officer is played by Nathan Lane who played Gomez Addams in the 2010 Original Broadway cast of 'The Addams Family Musical' (Wednesday has grown up, cut her braids and has invited her boyfriend and his parents over for dinner, typical family drama dealing with children growing up and changes happening - since the Addams Family are like any other family just with a higher torture tolerance).

[@auricstorm]

That last bit is what annoys me about the modern ones (stage show, Wednesday, etc)... The whole point of the Addams is they're supposed to be *opposite* of a normal family, the dad&mum love each other etc... While modern shows seem to make them "average family, but goth"

[@rebajoe]

26:57 What Gary and Becky forgot to take into account is that while these movie were happy and sing songy, alot of them are about protagonists who fight against authority figures and refuse to conform, Wednesday, Pugsley and Joel got the message loud and clear. 31:14 "We Gladly Feast On Those Who Subdue Us." 36:15 Some have wondered what good are these methods to get rid of the Addams family when they do stuff like this for fun, i speculate it's all about intent, in this case it's meant to seriously hurt and kill them so it might have an effect this time. 38:49 Never question Wednesday.

[@rjenyawd]

Debbie is iconic. One of my favorite camp horror villains of all time. ^_^ Glad you liked it and got to experience it!

[@NiaMakiReacts]

she really is! Pastels and all!!

[@NJAsmodeus1]

This movie has gotten better as I aged. From keeping my preteen crush on Ricci aflame, to aspiring to be as accepting and loving a parent as them.

[@KeilaAnn3610]

I can say, my sister and I never laugh so hard as when we tell the stories of almost killing each other in various ways 😅 it's the most relatable part of the movie

[@NiaMakiReacts]

🤣 omg!!!!

[@Delta-sj9dy]

RIP to Raul Julia

[@shadowsources]

8:46 Technically, all the money that the family has is Festers, as stated in the first movie. Awhile back, someone took an estimate of what the family from the 60's tv series had and adjusted it for inflation and it came out to be like 26 billion dollars in today's money.

[@olynellis9151]

This movie is such a classic-- and i for one think its plenty family friendly! Most innuendos would go over kids heads (like they did mine when i was a kid and watched this) and it teaches a great moral IMO of 'no matter how different or bizarre your family is, as long as you all love and support each other, you have a happy family!' Which was what I always got from it. Plus morticia and gomez gave me the BEST example of what to expect in a partner. [Edit to specify i was between 8-10 when i first saw this movie ]

[@Keys-zq1gw]

Wednesday is so snappy and witty with the clap-backs. I love it! She definitely won’t let you get one up on her with those weak, passive aggressive jabs. She’s on your ahh! 😂😂

[@Aloysius_OHare]

"let them have cake" wasn't actually a real phrase said by Marie-Antoinette. Critics of the Queen claimed she had in order to make her look insensitive and undermine her position. Marie has simply been misinterpreted, that she meant brioche (bread) one way and people took it for another(cake). There was certainly a huge industry devoted to attacking and slandering the Queen, making all sorts of even pornographic and remark attacks on her to sully her reputation. Just to clear the air.

[@levi1929]

Woe to the Republic.

[@SilverionX]

Very good analysis. That's the core thing about the Addams family. They all love and support each other no matter what. Unlike a lot of conservative upper class families, who are just a mess beneath a thin veneer of beauty.

[@aranerem5569]

Wednesday saying "I can't swim".

[@NiaMakiReacts]

😂

[@FLQueerLiberal1982]

Amy Fischer, the Long Island Lolita - she was 17 at the time. She shot the wife of her much-older boyfriend, Joey Buttafuoco, in the head after knocking on the door in an attempt to kill her. Served seven years for first-degree aggravated assault. Became an adult entertainer when she got out, webcam model, writer. It was big deal when I was a kid. Covered on all the news channels, tabloids, a few different television movies of the week were made (MOW were low-budget, over dramatized movies that network television channels did, typically on weekends, but fell out of favor. Now Lifetime does them ALL THE TIME).

[@otisroseboro5613]

Best Sequel Ever,The Addams Family Is The Best 💯,Nice Reaction Sweetheart ❤

[@brandonj7458]

Wednesdays dramatic clutch of fear on the chain link fence 🤣😂 THE AGONY

[@Dogvinity]

I never made that connection between Amanda in this movie and the girl at the lemonade stand in the first one. I Googled it. Spot on! Great reaction. :-)

[@positivelynegative9149]

"Who's Amy Fisher?" 🤣

[@josephamesdacey6442]

Carol kane was the perfect addition to this cast debbie is great but the mom is a sleeper hero of this movie

[@Daniel-cn3fw]

"i've never even seen my parents hold hands" lmaooo god damn nia i love your little captions

[@NiaMakiReacts]

PDA is not typical in OG Asian and African families😂

[@NJAsmodeus1]

The only line that messes me up and I can’t ignore is the “cannonball/baby” scene. They fall at the same rate damnit.

[@BeeWhistler]

Yeah, when you said it was a family friendly movie, I was tempted to indulge in an ugly laugh! It’s friendly for my family, sure… since the youngest is 18! 😉 It’s delightful and perfect for November, though, and I’m so glad you watched it! And yeah, poor Fester spent 25 years being manipulated by a con artist so I guess he didn’t have the chance to make time with any terrifying, mutant women. And thnk goodness my parents got me that ballerina Barbie as a kid… my family called me Debbie (no I am not really named Bee Whistler) and clearly they saved me from burning the house down. I don’t even want a Mercedes.

[@3Rayfire]

I mean when the film came out it was perfectly family friendly. But to reiterate, 80s kids are built different.

[@TheHestya]

I had no issues with this film 🤷‍♀ I don't see a reason why it would not be suitable. It's like Simpsons - watch it as an adult and you see all the stuff that went over your head. We had no clue.

[@bobbuethe1477]

Wednesday's young suitor was played by David Krumholz, who was also Mr. Universe in the movie "Serenity," as well as one of the stars of the TV series "Numb3rs," in which two brothers, one an FBI agent and the other a mathematician, worked together to solve crimes.

[@NiaMakiReacts]

Oooooh!!!! I thought he looked familiar from Numbers! I didn’t watch too much of that one but it seemed interesting!

[@melenatorr]

@@NiaMakiReacts Peter McNichol (sp), who played the summer camp playwright extraordinaire, was in "Numbers" too!

[@swagromancer]

Not to mention last year's dry and awkwardly entertaining comedy Lousy Carter.

[@bobbuethe1477]

@@melenatorr That's right! I forgot that.

[@rainbowpegacornstudios]

He was also Bernard in the first two Santa Clause movies and the Disney+ series The Santa Clauses.

[@jddonov]

I just realized that the grandmother's curse actually worked.

[@FLQueerLiberal1982]

@@jddonov me too! At the time she did the curse, I thought "oh wait, it comes to fruition!" All the times I've seen this, never once did it occur to me

[@-.._.-_...-_.._-..__..._.-.-.-]

Luxor, nexor, burst, and burn!

[@nikoblack1272]

this is my absolute favorite movie and one of the best sequels in film history ; it holds up so well bc it's social commentary is still relevant ( sadly )😂❤

[@ajlynch5235]

The Eat Me song is so overlooked and so SNL sketch that its hilarious everytime I watch it

[@nope19568]

its so iconic honestly

[@peperino25]

iLOVE u reaction! I recommend +🔥 ★ *Sleepy Hollow* (1999) _Johnny Depp & Christina Ricci (Wednesday)_ Directed by Tim Burton & Music by Danny Elfman ★ *The Witches* (1990) _Anjelica Huston (Morticia Addams)_ ★ *The Frighteners* (1996) _Michael J. Fox_ Directed by Peter Jackson Produced by Robert Zemeckis Music by Danny Elfman ,

[@NiaMakiReacts]

Oooooh!!!! I wondered if they were in any other movies! Those sound like great additions to the list!

[@peperino25]

@@NiaMakiReacts you bet! You will be recognized so many actors, the cast is incredible, i do not want to spoil you.

[@JayPadrig]

Amanda Buffman is a great villain- she was the Girl Scout in the first one trying to sell delicious Girl Scout cookies made from real girl scouts.

[@NiaMakiReacts]

Yeah idk why I don’t recall her from Buffy at all but apparently I’ve seen her there too lol. She’s fun

[@tgiacin435]

To be fair, we never learned if Girl Scout cookies were made from real Girl Scouts

[@melenatorr]

@@NiaMakiReacts She's Harmony.

[@3Rayfire]

@@tgiacin435 they weren't made from Real Girl Scouts, they were imitation.

[@tgiacin435]

@ sorry, I like my cookies to have all natural girl scouts

[@billstephens396]

7:15 I consider that 'Addams Family Friendly'...

[@injunsun]

@NiaMakiReacts, thank you for going forward with this. I recommended, and still do, "Adult Wednesday Addams," a YT series of shorts the actual Addams Estate got stopped, but let stay up. The actress/writer/producer is AMAZING. So funny. You can binge them in under 2 hours, but I don't think you would be able to cut much, because all are about 6 minutes each. You wouldn't need to worry about copyright tho. Ever see "Blazing Saddles" (1974)? It's one of those Mel Brooks films, that pokes racists square in the.... eye? Tuckas? You decide.

[@lasselippert3892]

Mercedes McNab should have been a much bigger deal. She's hilarious.

[@KennyMrTerrellThisIsTheWay2024]

Hi Nia, I enjoyed your reaction to the Addam's family movie 2. Let me tell you a true story I saw the Addam's family cast at LA comic con a month ago. It's true I saw Wednesday pumsley uncle fester the mother and lurch. And of course back to the future cast because Christopher was in both those movies. Also I enjoyed your reaction to training day with Denzel and yes that is the line where he says king call ain't got stuff on me.

[@FLQueerLiberal1982]

Nia, I just realized there's a movie that I think you would really enjoy. It's a dialogue- and physical-based comedy that also stars Christopher Lloyd (Doc Brown, Fester), and it's the film version of the boardgame Clue. If you wanna see a younger Christina Ricci, try the comedy Mermaids with Cher and Wynona Rider.

[@NiaMakiReacts]

Ooooh that’s the board game right?! There’s a movie?!

[@FLQueerLiberal1982]

@NiaMakiReacts oh yes! And it's hilarious!

[@bobbuethe1477]

It was filmed with three different endings. Different theaters showed different endings.

[@OrangeTestament]

⁠@@NiaMakiReactsI absolutely second this recommendation. I’ve been watching that movie since the 80s, and it still makes me laugh every single time. I don’t say that a lot about comedies 😂

[@UnrealMisterD]

@@NiaMakiReacts It also stars Tim Curry!

[@nikoblack1272]

i love that you had the same reaction Fester did to the stripper cake😂

[@denisjrmayrand7935]

C'est la vie

[@SarahMaeBea]

I think F-F-Friday (fuh fuh Friday) is a great name! 😄

[@Tempest_Elixir]

03:51 It always cracks me up how Fester says that! 😂😂😂

[@IlNyaPasdOrchestre]

now that I think about it.. I don't think I remember seeing my parents hold hands either..

[@BloodylocksBathory]

Peter McNicol and Christine Baranski were perfect as the Grangers. So forcefully perky and covertly hateful. It's also interesting that in the previous film it was stated by Gomez that Fester was a ladies man, but in this film Debbie has him tripping all over himself. Granted, once Dementia shows up, he's back to being charming and charismatic.

[@mouse122809]

Put it simply Amy Fisher was a minor in love with a married man. Obsessed so much with him. She knocked on the front door of his house while he was gone and shot his wife point blank so that she could be with him.. But the wife survived

[@SmashAdams216]

I've seen these movies more times than I can count and I never would have noticed that you used a scene for part 2 as your part 1 thumbnail if you hadn't pointed it out!

[@paradox9257]

10min, she's in the first movie (girlscout joke)

[@connect2reality]

Raul Julia and Christopher Loyd will always be the best Gomez and Fester.

[@agenttheater5]

1:46 Well she was going to find out eventually.

[@NiaMakiReacts]

😂 I just love Wednesday

[@rainbowpegacornstudios]

I love Wednesday's comebacks in this movie. Amanda: I'll be the victim!! Wednesday: All your life 😆🤣

[@PHSDM104]

To be fair, the pastels WERE tacky.

[@GarrettJayChristian]

Is Keanu named after the Key & Peele movie? 😹

[@ChesnayMangale]

19:50 - 19:54

[@vincentwilliams71]

👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍

[@tgiacin435]

I wonder how long it will be before word gets out the Black Widow died

[@richardzinns5676]

The "It's an Addams!" joke is based on one of the most famous of the original Charles Addams cartoons in the New Yorker, in which a nurse tells the Gomez character, who has been waiting in the maternity ward, "Congratulations! It's a baby!"

[@richardzinns5676]

Correction to that last comment: It's not actually the Gomez character who is present in that cartoon, just an ordinary expectant father - though I think the gag would have worked even better if Addams actually had used a character from his "family."

[@JayPadrig]

Pubert belches a flaming arrow into the ceiling, and Morticia says: “Did you SEE THAT?” 😂

[@NiaMakiReacts]

😂 😂

[@melenatorr]

@@NiaMakiReacts When the tv series was being developed and the producers were discussing character names with Addams Family creator Charles Addams, the son of the family was going to be named Pubert, but the producers got nervous. So the boy was named Pugsley. Charles Addams dashed off single panel cartoons of the family for the New Yorker magazine from around the 1950s. He just drew them in eccentric situations and never gave them names till the show was produced.

[@JoeMama410]

I have to wonder how many people in the Addams' graveyard were just like Debbie.

[@theelvenwtich]

My daughter had so much hair that the L&D nurse gasped and said in a shakey voice "So much hair".

[@NiaMakiReacts]

😂 awww!!! That’s awesome though, you want those cute bows to have function and aesthetic

[@theelvenwtich]

@NiaMakiReacts scared the hell out of my ex. The nurse sounded like she birthed a werewolf.

[@tgiacin435]

One thing I didn’t like is the house set. In the original, the foyer had that huge staircase that went from one side to the other side with the ball room on the center landing, but in the sequel it’s like an ordinary staircase. Idk, the house in the sequel looked a bit shabby. The original movie made the house look grand like a museum

[@seanorange5633]

Gomez and Morticia.........i wish a love like that as real for me :(

[@NiaMakiReacts]

Yo; I really need to learn from them 😩

[@kristianbanks6450]

I love this movie so much!🖤💀😈👻 it’s somehow even better and more iconic than the first! Thank you so much for watching! I loved your reaction! The Addams Family are classic😊✨

[@NiaMakiReacts]

Yesssssss!!!! Both movies are fantastic, different tones but hard to say which I like better

[@sageof7627]

Lol just showed how young you are with not knowing who amy fisher was. Lol❤

[@NiaMakiReacts]

Oh man! I’m actually not young but I grew up in Africa with an Asian mom so I didn’t get a lot of western cultural influences when I was young

[@sageof7627]

@NiaMakiReacts ha! Well ,with those genes, you look like a young'en! Thank you for the video!

[@alicestevens8291]

And that is the best line in the film. Follow with the entire Thanksgiving play scene.

[@dudermcdudeface3674]

It's sad they waited thirty years to revisit the franchise after this. If there'd been one in the middle, we might have gotten an Aubrey Plaza Wednesday.

[@LordVolkov]

Debbie is peak Joan Cusack 😍 While she's always very funny, she's a smokeshow as Debbie. If she wasn't so greedy she would have been a great Addams 😅

[@NiaMakiReacts]

Man she could have been! She messed it up for herself!

[@tgiacin435]

MA-LI-BU BAR-BIE

[@seanorange5633]

The Wednesday pigtails are always acceptable.....you found a cheat code. This is one of my favorite movies.....hope you enjoy it!

[@NiaMakiReacts]

Wait really!!! Mwahahaha!!

[@-.._.-_...-_.._-..__..._.-.-.-]

Happy Thanksgiving, everyone! Remember to check your privilege and avoid heated discussions.

[@mercilessidioms]

Glad you found these gems! A rare sequel that's at least as good as the original movie. Also, at the risk of emotional damage: Arcane season 2?

[@NiaMakiReacts]

Damn I was so excited till you reminded me of the emotional damage! But yes! I can’t wait for the first episode! I’m thinking I’ll post the first episode here and if it does well I can keep posting but otherwise I will just keep them on Patreon.

[@yournamehere6002]

The problem with this movie is that A. a Thanksgiving play in summer camp makes no sense, and B. The Addams wouldn't like the Natives, they'd like the exploiters.

[@boghag]

A. Vanity project B. The Addams are always the outsiders

[@yournamehere6002]

@@boghag No, they would like the people who exploited, not the earnest Natives

[@auricstorm]

@ b) why would they? Literally in the first film we heard Great Aunt Calpurnia "danced naked, enslaved a minister, was burned for witchcraft"... Which while superficially might sound like they like mind control and oppression, but there's the subtext of the Salem Witch Trials being about persecution of powerless *innocent* women so a woman who had power and opposed the status quo (the minister. See Catholic Priest stereotypes) is actually stanning the under dog

[@tyronebrewer3219]

From the old TV series The Addams Family.

[@NiaMakiReacts]

Happy Friday!

[@tyronebrewer3219]

@@NiaMakiReacts Hope you have a great day!