Building on 2019’s solidly entertaining animated entry, “The Addams Family 2” remains kooky and fun, yet it lacks the warmth from the previous film and feels more juvenile, too. The animated family is still entertaining to watch, but the story is directed at younger viewers, this time lacking some cohesiveness and fine-tuning to the storytelling.
Wednesday Addams (voiced by Chloë Grace Moretz) enters a very Addams-like project at her school’s humdrum science fair, and despite her asking parents Gomez (Oscar Isaac) and Morticia (Charlize Theron) not to make an appearance, they show up, loud and proud. Wednesday has figured out how to share personality traits between creatures by using fragments of their DNA in a drink, a discovery that attracts the attention of wealthy tech genius Cyrus Strange (Bill Hader).