Hotel Transylvania Reviews

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

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5

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

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

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

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5

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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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 film gives gothic multiculturalism a good, or at least a giddily digimated, name.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5

It's no classic but the animation is lively and inventive with some terrifically realised ghouls and the story moves fast.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5

Monstrously entertaining, frequently hilarious comedy with lively, fast-paced animation, appealing characters, a witty script and terrific voice performances from a superb comic cast.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5

Adam Sandler is the perfect voice for Dracula and the warm and funny script makes this a solidly entertaining movie.

Full Review | Original Score: 7/10

We only hear him, but this is the best thing Adam Sandler has done in years.

Full Review | Original Score: B+

Initially, it seems as if viewers are in for the same sort of frat-boy nonsense that Sandler flings out with virtually all his live-action projects. Thankfully, the movie soon shies away from that position and instead manages to deliver genuine laughs.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4

There are some great sight gags and witty wordplay, but it's a shame that the script too often grows frantic and desperate for laughs. Gags about mummy flatulence can only take you so far.

Full Review | Original Score: C+

Hotel Transylvania doesn't raise the bar for animation or comedy but it's fun, and nice for once to have a different reason to say "boo" after an Adam Sandler flick.

Full Review | Original Score: B

It's all strictly one-note stuff. But it's a funny note, and the film has a grand old time giving us the same type of gag over and over again.

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The 3-D adds a vertiginous thrill to a chase on flying tables and a touch of claustrophobia to a maze of underground corridors.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4

... feels more like a good Cartoon Network series pilot than a great feature film... no one thought to do a parody of The Eagle's 'Hotel California' for this?

Full Review | Original Score: 3.0/4.0

Father-daughter comedy works as intro to monster movies.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5