Fed up with being persecuted by humans, Count Dracula (Adam
Sandler) decides to build a hotel for monsters that is protected from humanity
by haunted forests and zombie filled graveyards. His ulterior motive though is
to keep his daughter Mavis (Selena Gomez) safe and secure and away from
anything that can hurt her. Dracula is planning a huge birthday party for Mavis
with all of his monster friends in attendance when he is shocked to discover
that a human (Andy Samberg) has found the hotel and is threatening to bring his
and his daughter’s peaceful existence to an end.
Having been disappointed by ParaNorman and still waiting to see Frankenweenie I went into Hotel Transylvania with some trepidation.
This feeling of weariness was heightened by the fact that I deeply dislike the
majority of the voice cast. Even so I went in with an open mind and came out
the other side thinking, “meh”. Overall I enjoyed the film more than ParaNorman but the initial conceit,
which was a very good idea, couldn’t be sustained for ninety minutes. As a
result there were large chunks of the film which were quite boring but were
occasionally livened up by a decent joke or some attractively busy animation.
