Hotel Transylvania (2012)
Average Rating: 5.4/10
Reviews Counted: 137
Fresh: 61 | Rotten: 76
Hotel Transylvania's buoyant, giddy tone may please children, but it might be a little too loud and thinly-scripted for older audiences.
Average Rating: 5.3/10
Critic Reviews: 29
Fresh: 12 | Rotten: 17
Hotel Transylvania's buoyant, giddy tone may please children, but it might be a little too loud and thinly-scripted for older audiences.
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Movie Info
Welcome to the Hotel Transylvania, Dracula's (Adam Sandler) lavish five-stake resort, where monsters and their families can live it up, free to be the monsters they are without humans to bother them. On one special weekend, Dracula has invited some of the world's most famous monsters--Frankenstein and his bride, the Mummy, the Invisible Man, a family of werewolves, and more--to celebrate his daughter Mavis's 118th birthday. For Drac, catering to all of these legendary monsters is no problem--but
Cast
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Adam Sandler
Dracula -
Andy Samberg
Jonathan -
Selena Gomez
Mavis -
Kevin James
Frank, Frankenstein -
Fran Drescher
Eunice, The Bride -
Steve Buscemi
Wayne -
Molly Shannon
Wanda -
David Spade
Griffin the Invisibl... -
Ceelo Greene
Murray, Murray the M... -
Jon Lovitz
Quasimodo -
Brian George
Suit of Armor -
Luenell
Shrunken Heads -
Jim Wise
Hydra, Shrunken Head -
Brian Stack
Pilot -
Chris Parnell
Fly -
Jackie Sandler
Martha -
Sadie Sandler
Winnie, Young Mavis -
Robert Smigel
Fake Dracula, Marty -
Rob Riggle
Skeleton Husband -
Paul Brittain
Hydra, Zombie -
Jonny Solomon
Gremlin Man, Hydra -
Craig Kellman
Guy in Crowd, Hydra -
Brian McCann
Hairy Monster, Hydra -
James Williams
Foreman -
David Koechner
Quasimodo
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All Critics (137) | Top Critics (29) | Fresh (61) | Rotten (76) | DVD (2)
No one does saccharine like Adam Sandler. The man can be sharp, angry and funny - but when he lays on the sweetness, it's like drowning in an avalanche of Tate & Lyle.
Top CriticThe 3-D adds a vertiginous thrill to a chase on flying tables and a touch of claustrophobia to a maze of underground corridors.
Not since Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein have the great Universal monsters been subjected to such dismal treatment.
Even the animation is ugly.
Hotel Transylvania may lack the emotional oomph of Pixar's best efforts, but it makes up for it with rapid-fire gags and an unflagging pace that makes this a rare all-ages treat.
A fast, funny and wildly inventive animated tale with enough laughs and heart to appeal to audiences of all ages.
Has the definite stamp of Sandler and his crew, but in the end it's a fine and very sweet animated family film.
In the role of a concerned father and cartoon monster, Sandler manages to be something he has not been onscreen in a long time: likable.
Kids will enjoy Hotel Transylvania, and it won't bore the socks off adults too.
There's a good chance that children under 10 will find "Hotel Transylvania" entertaining, because it's as non-threatening as can be and the jokes are obvious. There's an equally good chance that everyone else will wander off . . .
From the spooked start, the comic-rhythm dial's set to bulldozer. Whizzes through the superficially amusing conceit without actually taking much time to craft cunning comedy. Like a sugar-rushed Count Chocula-meets-Fawlty-Towers idea.
This is a perfectly O.K. animated film. The animation is really quite good. The characters are interesting, but the predictable story isn't very compelling. It is a slightly above average animated feature.
Director Genndy Tartakovsky has fashioned something even the most sensitive little flowers in your family can enjoy.
Hotel Transylvania might be useful as a primer to introduce young film fans to some classic screen creatures, but it falls way behind the standard set by wittier animations from the likes of Pixar and Aardman.
The concept of monsters as the good guys and humans as the villains is nothing new in the realm of movies, but Tartakovsky keeps things moving along at a satisfying pace as the stellar voice cast have a field day with their iconic characters.
... another empty-calorie animated feature ...
Checking into this hotel will give you a thrill and get you in the mood for Halloween.
It's not good enough to actually like, nor is it bad enough to get worked up about.
With a script by that manages to dilute Adam Sandler's baser instincts with a real love for Universal monsters, Hotel Transylvania is no Grown Ups-style torture.
It's inventive, wittily drawn, macabre in a Charles Addams vein, and overlong. Children will find it as much fun as Halloween.
The characters and story, forged by six different directors and many more writers over a six-year-production stint, leave little room for Tartakovsky tricks and tics.
Eye-catching animation and non-stop jokes make this animated monster movie a lot more fun than we expect. It's packed with gross-out gags that will keep kids laughing, plus clever character-based humour for the grown-ups.
The ultimate message about ignorance being the scariest thing of all is a sincere one, but it gets lost in the nonstop, eager-to-please, uninspired zaniness.
There is not much originality here, particularly not a daughter wanting to escape an overprotective parent - Brave and Tangled did this much better - and the 3D hardly registers.
Sandler's second venture into animation is almost as unfunny as his horrendous Eight Crazy Nights, ten years ago.
Comedy gothic isn't exactly novel, and frankly there is a sense here of a movie coasting along on Halloween hype-marketing, without providing as many laughs and ideas as it really could have done.
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- Dracula: What my hand in a stan shoes?
- Jonathan: What japan eating lamb stew?
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- Wayne: What? Now there's no sheep in the road. Let's go.
- Murray: That was pretty sick, man.
- Wayne: You eat lamb chops, it's the same thing.
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- Dracula: Human blood is so fatty and you never know where its been.
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- Dracula: I always thought the worst thing ever would be seeing you go, but the worst is seeing you unhappy.
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- Mavis: Hi human!
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- Jonathan: Are these monster gonna kill me?
- Dracula: Not as long as they think you're a monster.
- Jonathan: That's kinda of racist.
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Foreign Titles
- Hotel Transsilvanien (DE)
- Hôtel Transylvanie (FR)
