And get him out, he did. In the family movie and its 1993 sequel, “Addams Family Values,” Thing runs and jumps, opens doors, plays chess and taps out Morse code with a spoon.

The New Addams Family is the most disposable of all the property's iterations. Featuring a cast of relative unknowns, it also drags back John Astin (Gomez on the original '60s series), this time ...