"I'm staring at Canada, if that answers your question."
...or as Gomez puts it early on in the film: The Addams Family Vacation! Sensing a widening generation gap, Gomez and Morticia decide to take the family on a road trip, which leads predictably to places like Niagara Falls, Miami Beach, a Texan beauty pageant and the Grand Canyon with expected fish-out-of-water consequences, but like the Hotel Transylvania franchise, it does not feel quite as true or effective when the central characters are removed from their natural environment. Nevertheless, this sequel tries hard to match the energy and attention to detail that worked in the first film, although the story is less focused and fresh as it resorts to the standard road-trip format. A number of plot strands compete for time and attention, ranging from Fester coaching Pugsley in the ways of women to Wednesday's possible hospital-room switch at birth and even Fester slowly mutating into an octopus (!), making the film feel frantic and cluttered at times and leading to a chaotic finale. Whilst it is not as strong as the 2019 outing overall, this sequel does sometimes hit the mark and delivers some jokes well.
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