Hotel Transylvania Reviews

Kids will enjoy Hotel Transylvania, and it won't bore the socks off adults too.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5

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 . . .

Full Review | Original Score: 5/10

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.

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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.

Full Review | Original Score: C+

Director Genndy Tartakovsky has fashioned something even the most sensitive little flowers in your family can enjoy.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5

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.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5

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.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4

... another empty-calorie animated feature ...

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5

Checking into this hotel will give you a thrill and get you in the mood for Halloween.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5

It's not good enough to actually like, nor is it bad enough to get worked up about.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/5

Primarily concerned with ensuring that young viewers aren't bored, it restlessly relies on juvenile humour, uninspiring musical numbers and wacky, Looney Tunes-type chases.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5

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.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5

It's inventive, wittily drawn, macabre in a Charles Addams vein, and overlong. Children will find it as much fun as Halloween.

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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.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5

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.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/5

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.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5

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.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5

Sandler's second venture into animation is almost as unfunny as his horrendous Eight Crazy Nights, ten years ago.

Full Review | Original Score: 1/5

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.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5

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.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5