Hotel Transylvania

Hotel Transylvania

Rating 4 out of 10

Adam Sandler just can't catch a break.  Somehow his name is still enough to get the box office numbers up on some of his movies but personally I can't remember the last time I saw one of his movies in a theater and left feeling good about it.  Sadly his step into animated films is no better.

I had a date with my lovely granddaughter to see a movie.  We are not having much luck.  Last time we went to a movie someone broke into my car while we were in the theater and stole the stereo.  I still get to enjoy time with Delilah.

In Hotel Transylvania Dracula has become an over protective father.  His loving wife was killed by evil humans a hundred years before.  He builds a fancy hotel in Transylvania where monsters can come to vacation without having to worry about humans trying to kill them.  It is disguised so that humans can't tell it is there.  His daughter Mavis (voiced by Selena Gomez) has never seen life outside the hotel and has always wanted to go out into the world.  She is turning 118 and feels she is old enough to handle it.

When an unsuspecting human stumbles into the hotel (Jonathan voiced by Andy Sandberg) Dracula is worried all his business will be gone if the monsters find out Humans know where it is.  Jonathan plays along when Dracula dresses him up as Frankensteins nephew the party planner there to help with Mavis birthday bash.  The movie starts off slow and goes downhill from there.

Great cast of voices but sadly the movie has nothing else needed to make an animated film succeed.  The story is boring and uninteresting.  The music is not something you would tap your foot to.  Worst is in this day and age of great animation this seems much more like a Saturday cartoon than a full feature release.

Delilah crawled up in my lap and fell asleep and honestly I was wondering if the clean up kids would wake us if I dozed off too.  If you have a small child you want to rent a movie for next Halloween you can do better than this one, but rent if you want.  Can't say I didn't warn you. : <