addams family reunion start with gomez addams ( tim curry ) receive a book through the post contain the name of every addams that have ever live . gomez contact a family reunion agency and receive a invitation back invite him and his family to a family reunion to meet his distant relative . meanwhile it appear that grandpa ( kevin mccarthy ) and grandma addams ( estelle harris ) be suffer from waltzheimers and a condition that turn the suffer normal . gomez his wife morticia ( daryl hannah ) their two child wednesday ( nicole fugere ) and pugsley ( jerry messing ) and grandpa and grandma plus uncle fester ( patrick thomas ) and lurch ( carel struycken ) all set of for the family reunion at primrose resort . it turn out that the family union agency mix the invite up and the addams receive the wrong invite and be catch in a plot by phillip adam ( ed begley jr. ) and his sister katherine ( hilary shepard ) to get a large slice of their rich father fortune . much hilarity ensues and not . this straight to video continuation of the addams family franchise be direct by dave payne and be a bit of a travesty . this be the third entry in the series after the addams family ( 1991 ) and addams family value ( 1993 ) which be very good film and addams family reunion isn not . the dark gothic look and feel and droll joke be go and the creepiness and the morbidness and the dark black humour be go . intsead it be replace with unfunny family friendly slapstick and an explosion which leave someone cover in soot or an electric shock which leave someone hair stand up for instance and really unfunny joke that be as old a time itself and the usual fish out of water shenanigan that one would expect from the addams family visit a luxurious modern day holiday resort . at the same time the miss normal adam geoff ( rodger halston ) and melinda ( heidi lenhart ) who end up at the addams family mansion and that just the same a what happen at the resort but the other way around . this be squarely aim at a pre teen audience but i doubt even they would find much here to amuse themselves with . i also think the waltzheimers disease joke be in very poor taste . director payne film like a tv film and while it competent it lack any style . the special effect be truly terrible and from a post box with a tongue of infinite length which look awful to a vicious black poodle that look like a five year old animate it . the cgi in the addams family reunion be really embarrassing to watch and even the kid would not be impress . with an obviously low budget the film look very cheap throughout and lose the fantastic gothic horror film inspire production design from the first two and replaces it with cardboard set and cheap prop . the acting be pretty bad especially from curry who be awful and have no subtlety in his performance whatsoever . hannah a mortica be quite good and pretty sexy and a pity she be give next to nothing to do other than stand next to gomez . clint howard make an uncredited appearance and when he go uncredited you know your in trouble . addams family reunion be a miserable attempt at a kid comedy and the dark gothic edge and undertones form the original be sorely lack and replace with really unfunny gag and slapstick . might keep undemanding kid quiet but anyone else will have have a hard time like it .