Hotel Transylvania

Hotel Transylvania
2012 American 3D computer-animated comedy film produced by Sony Pictures Animation and distributed by Columbia Pictures. It was directed by Genndy Tartakovsky, the creator of Samurai Jack, Dexter's Laboratory, and Sym-Bionic Titan, and produced by Michelle Murdocca. The film features the voices of Adam Sandler, Selena Gomez, Andy Samberg, Kevin James, Fran Drescher, Jon Lovitz, Cee Lo Green, Steve Buscemi, Molly Shannon and David Spade.

Plot:
The film tells a story of Dracula, the owner of Hotel Transylvania, where the world's monsters can take a rest from human civilization. Dracula invites some of the most famous monsters, including Frankenstein's monster, Mummy, a Werewolf family, and the Invisible Man, to celebrate the 118th birthday of his daughter Mavis. When the hotel is unexpectedly visited by an ordinary 21-year-old traveler named Jonathan, Dracula must protect Mavis from falling in love with him before it is too late.

Movie Reviews
Genndy Tartakovsky is best known for his work directing the hand-drawn animated Star Wars spin-off series, Clone Wars. When fans heard that the filmmaker was set to helm DreamWorks latest CGI film, Hotel Transylvania, many were just interested to see what the director could do with horror staples like Dracula and Frankenstein.Film did feature interesting Tartakovsky visual aesthetics and familiarize them with the director continued to be optimistic. Now the movie is released, Tartakovsky, along with a cast of familiar vocal talent  produced an animated feature a fun but heartwarming film for moviegoers of all ages.

Hotel Transylvania is overstuffed with on-the-nose humor and an underwhelming story that each borrow heavily from other animated films, follows the familiar story overprotective father, Count Dracula (Sandler), who is convinced that humans are dangerous, and as a precaution, build a huge castle (and the hotel) where monsters might take refuge and count can hide his vampire daughter Mavis (Gomez) away forever. Is convinced that people are not to be trusted, terrifying creatures from around the world come to vacation behind the safety of the castle, but at the same time, Mavis dream to leave the club, travel. But just when Mavis has given up venturing into the outside world, Jonathan (Samberg), a man unwittingly party crash Hotel Transylvania forcing Dracula, after 118 years of fearful hiding place to face possibility that people may have moved past their torch and pitchfork anti-monster days.

The film never tries for one of the characters, and even Dracula Mavis present, with enough sincerity to the Final Act, which tries to be sincere and deep, actually pay it. Place is left viewers with even an overly general story about true love without grounding the story in real character moments. Jonathan is nothing but a thin and even annoying counterweight for almost every main character to the playoffs. Mavis is isolated, so Jonathan is an adventurer's Dracula uptight, so Jonathan's spirited, Cee-Lo Green and Selena Gomez in the movie, so Jonathan performs a few musical numbers. About Hotel Transylvania did not spend so much time trying to say something profound about love, ITD be easy to overlook a character like Jonathan, but it's hard to take anything the film says seriously when filmmakers regularly depending slapstick comedy instead of engaging characters keep the audience invested.

Also very little is actually done with great character designs of the various monsters populate the film forcing the iconic animals in revisiting the same jokes over and over. Even with a bunch of familiar voices, they Most of the monster moments are so boring that usually energetic artists like Steve Buccemi and Fran Drescher is simply lost in the shuffle.Hotel Transylvania play in 3D and 2D theaters and as is usually the case with animated films, the effect is noticeable, but this time it is not used in a particularly compelling or unique way. 3D graphics are mostly forgettable and does not add enough value to the overall experience to warrant an upgraded ticket.

Hotel Transylvania contains some interesting standalone design choices, such as Tartakovskys keen visual aesthetics, but there is a lot of conflicting ideas at play in the film especially the deterrent juxtaposition of near-genuine character moments and lowbrow poop jokes that prevents the film from ever being particularly cordial or fun. Kids will enjoy seeing all the goofy monsters interact films but head-scratching depictions of true love and accept others reveals that the hotel Transylvania filmmakers may have spent too much time with Frank N. Stein (voiced by Kevin James) ultimately deliver an awkwardly proportioned and poorly stitched together movie experience.

Hotel Transylvania