Addams Family Values: parents' guide

Cartoonish but constant: Wednesday and Pugsley drop a cannonball and a guillotine blade on their baby brother and try to toss him off the roof. Debbie tries to kill Fester in the bath and with a bomb, and campers are tied up during a fiery play.

Mild: 'damn,' God's name as an exclamation, and 'eat me.' Movieguide also counts a few mild obscenities and one cruder word it doesn't name; no guide we read reports an f-word.

Debbie seduces Fester, his virginity is discussed, and their honeymoon implies sex without showing it. Gomez and Morticia flirt with jokey hints of kink, Fester hides a magazine of scantily clad women, Wednesday and a boy kiss, and she deadpans that babies come from sex.

Adults smoke cigarettes and Gomez's cigars, and drink vodka and champagne. In one gag, a cocktail is mixed for the baby. No one is shown drunk.

Macabre more than scary: a ghoulish house, a black-widow villain who boasts of killing her parents and husbands, and a climax with the family strapped into electric chairs at gunpoint. Most teens will laugh, but the baby-in-peril gags may upset younger ones.