When your main characters are undead, your material should be full of life. Sadly, that is not the case here. Hotel Transylvania falls rather flat and the material never rises above average.
Hotel Transylvania stars Adam Sandler as Dracula, someone who is determined to create an environment where monsters can roam free and not have to worry about angry humans wanting their head on a platter. He creates a hotel for all of his kind to come party it up. This hotel also serves a double purposes as a barrier for his daughter to not be able to escape to the outside world, avoiding contact with humans at all costs. But when one mistakenly shows up at the hotel, she begins to fall in love, and Daddy's control starts to loosen up.
One of the biggest positives about Hotel Transylvania are the actors giving the voices to these characters. Supporting characters such as David Spade, CeeLo Green, Kevin James, and Molly Shannon are a blast, providing all the personality and fun really needed to make an animated character come to life. The animation is effective as well, I was impressed by how many details were given to the scenery and each individual monster. It's visual cotton candy.
Unfortunately, Hotel Transylvania's material could have been stronger. So many details come across as derivative in movies where the ideas were accomplished in a much stronger way. The humor at times comes across as a bit juvenile as well, there's only so many bodily function jokes you can do before shit gets tired. Hotel Transylvania is decent family filler that I feel would have worked a bit better as a 30 min television show. Stretching it out to 90 minutes is a bit of a pain in the neck.
2/4
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