Even monsters need a vacation
Genre: 3D animation, comedy
Recommended: General Audience
Runtime: 91 mins (1 hour 31 mins)
Released in India: 7 December 2012
This Hollywood 3D Animated blockbuster is directed by Genndy Tartakovsky who created such animated classics as Dexter’s Laboratory, Samurai Jack and The Powerpuff Girls, the film garnered the biggest September opening ever when it released in the US.
Welcome to the Hotel Transylvania, Dracula’s (Adam Sandler) lavish five-stake resort, where monsters and their families can live it up, free to be the monsters they are without humans to bother them. For Drac, catering to all of these legendary monsters is no problem – but his world could come crashing down when one ordinary guy stumbles on the hotel and takes a shine to Mavis.
This film features the voices of Adam Sandler, Andy Samberg, Selena Gomez, Kevin James, Fran Drescher, Steve Buscemi, Molly Shannon, David Spade and Cee Lo Green.
Dracula (voiced by Adam Sandler) has created a five star resort – Hotel Transylvania, where the monsters from all around the world can stay and relax, while being safe from human civilization.
To celebrate the 118th birthday of his daughter Mavis, Dracula has invited some of the most famous monsters, including Frankenstein and his wife Eunice, Murray the Mummy, a Werewolf family and the Invisible Man.
His daughter is curious to explore the outside world, while Dracula wants to imprint in her mind that humans are a threat to the monsters.
This is 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.
A young hiker Jonathan (voiced by Andy Samberg) while exploring the forest, happens to enters the hotel. Dracula doesn’t want him in the hotel as he would scare his monster guests and therefore frantically attempts to hide him from the patrons, by disguising him as a monster – Flesh Golem.
Mavis discovers Jonathan and is more curious about him. She felt the “zing” on seeing him at the first instance. Anyway, her daddy Dracula puts it this way that Jonathan is invited to make special arrangements for her birthday party with a young perspective.
Jonathan charms everyone at the hotel, and Mavis seems to like him even more. This scares Dracula as he doesn’t want her daughter to fall in love with a human.
It is the beginning of a thrilling drama to keep Jonathan away from Mavis, while protecting the secret that the kid is a human from all others in the hotel.
Hotel Transylvania has superior 3D presentation, the characters are perfectly sketched out supported by apt dubbing. It has a racy number “zing” and is a welcome family film.
Cast:
Adam Sandler
Andy Samberg
Selena Gomez
Kevin James
Fran Drescher
Steve Buscemi
Molly Shannon
David Spade
CeeLo Green
Jon Lovitz
Credits:
Directed by Genndy Tartakovsky
Screenplay – Peter Baynham and Robert Smigel
Story Writers – Todd Durham, Dan Hageman, Kevin Hageman
Produced by Michelle Murdocca
Executive Producers – Adam Sandler, Robert Smigel, Allen Covert
Studio – Columbia Pictures / Sony Pictures Animation
