Technically, it's not correct to tell that Hotel Transylvania is nonsense as it simply makes clear sense. In here, monsters are freaked out of us humans because we apparently became terrific monster slayers in old times. Can you really point fingers at them? They are always killed in every of their movie's endings. As consequence, Count Dracula (voiced by Adam Sandler) builds a monsters-exclusive hotel in the most remote part of the wood so that his monster friends can take a break from stressing the presumed "evil" humans.
But when Jonathan (Andy Samberg) reaches the vicinity, Dracula immediately takes him and make him disguise as Frankenstein's (voiced by Kevin James) right-hand's sixth cousin and a professional party planner. See, Dracula needs to do this because it's his daughter Mavis's (voiced by Selena Gomez) 118th birthday and more importantly, Jonathan is entirely human. The problem here is that Mavis and Jonathan slowly gets sparks flies for each other, "zing" is what the vampires call them. Human plus monster ain't have been an acceptable combination for Count Dracula, really.
With the amount of talent that are advertised, it's still a surprise that Hotel Transylvania come out as another meh animation film. A few seasoned names from comedic television are on the credits, but it seems that Adam Sandler dominates here, leaving an identifiable vibe to the film--the Sandler kinda vibe. Sandler, for a vampire, is more or less destined to suck; regularly throwing jokes that doesn't service the audience more than a giggle (especially when the Twilight gag was pulled off). Samberg talks in Dude language and he's kind of annoying. James is James, but it takes a little time to actually recognize that it's him.
If you actually decided you'll waste your money for 3-D, then you're probably in a bad mood already, so there's really no need of mentioning how the 3-D moments were. Kind of uneven in pacing, and black and white in characters; director Genndy Tartakovsky succeeds in recreating classic monsters and giving them satiric spins, but too often they result to one-dimensional varieties. Mavis only wants to get out to the world, and that's all it is, that's her. Dracula is intent in keeping Mavis safe, but we've actually been familiarized to this stereotype for like forty-fifty years ago, haven't we?
Collectively formulaic, weakly narrated and acceptably executed, Hotel Transylvania is kind of summed to one description: a movie intent to make kids happy, and make adults otherwise. C
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