Hotel Transylvania Reviews
Top CriticNo 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.
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| Original Score: 2/5
The 3-D adds a vertiginous thrill to a chase on flying tables and a touch of claustrophobia to a maze of underground corridors.
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| Original Score: 2.5/4
Not since Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein have the great Universal monsters been subjected to such dismal treatment.
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| Original Score: 2.5/4
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.
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| Original Score: 3/4
The film is good goofy fun, even as the plot uncorks a whole lotta nothing.
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| Original Score: 3/4
"Hotel Transylvania" may offer a perfectly fine Halloween-themed getaway for young kids, but there aren't many amenities for Mom and Dad.
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| Original Score: 2/4
[Tartakovsky's] wit and attention to detail enliven a collection of well-known ghosts and ghouls.
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| Original Score: 2.5/4
It won't drive you crazy to watch it, but it isn't "The Lion King" either.
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| Original Score: C
This comedy starring and produced by Adam Sandler feels as slapped together one of the comedian's live-action buddy movies.
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| Original Score: 1.5/4
While it's an energetic romp, there is more slapstick humor than wit at work here, and a good deal of borrowing from the far more clever Monsters, Inc.
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| Original Score: 2.5/4
Every generation of trick-or-treaters deserves its monster mash.
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| Original Score: 2.5/4
The movie loses its originality as it rolls toward its predictable conclusion, but it's still lovely to look at.
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| Original Score: 3/5
There's much to enjoy here in a disposable way, particularly jokes about monsters having ordinary problems with kids and spouses.
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| Original Score: 2.5/4
"Hotel Transylvania" never becomes the great monster mash that seemed in the offing.
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| Original Score: 2/5
At its core, this movie is little more than Twilight told from the other side of the tracks, only with far more fart jokes.
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| Original Score: 4/10
There's enough here to entertain - and gross out - the kiddie crowd, and parental units, too.
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| Original Score: 3/4
There are a few laughs sprinkled throughout director Genndy Tartakovsky's film, but not nearly enough.
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| Original Score: 2.5/5
There's enough silly slapstick here that it flies by harmlessly.
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| Original Score: 3/5
A family movie that includes almost entirely lewd jokes for adults.
Tartakovsky's zippy, boing-boing touch shines through in the purely physical antics of the monster mob; words aren't necessary as the freaks bounce around the place with nutso energy.
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| Original Score: B-
The main reason I'm giving this a more favorable rating than my actual opinion of the movie would seem to call for is because the screening I attended also had a lot of kids in the audience, and most of them were relatively delighted.
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| Original Score: 2/5
Although it doesn't worry itself with dialectic complexities, Hotel Transylvania succeeds on the level of entertainment.
Tweens might appreciate the sugar-rush ghoulishness; Famous Monsters of Filmland fans and discerning kids-flick viewers may find themselves reaching for torches.
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| Original Score: 2/5
The biggest issue facing "Hotel Transylvania" is that this story has been done before, over the past six decades, and in a far superior manner.
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| Original Score: D+
A stale overprotective-dad story set within a location that could easily house a more inspired mix of characters and events.
A scarily unfunny animated monster movie that goes awry right off the bat.
