(“Hotel Transylvania: Transformania” contains perilous action, rude humor and something called “cartoon nudity. It is “not to see the worst in things, but to see the good.” I take it this effort is Exhibit A. Like many films aimed at children, “Hotel Transylvania: Transformania” has a lesson, too. It’s gratifying that the Dracula in these “Hotel Transylvania” films has been based on the character played, and in fact created by, the, yes, hypnotic Bela Lugosi in the 1931 Todd Browning landmark “Dracula.” The Universal horror film classics of the 1930s remain a rite-of-passage for kids everywhere. We get mosquito jokes, piranha jokes and a toasted marshmallow bit. Writers Amos Vernon, Nunzio Randazzo and Genndy Tartakovsky, the latter of “Samurai Jack” fame, have somehow managed to make Drescher unfunny, nothing short of a miracle. Stop me if any of this sounds funny to you.ĭirectors Derek Drymon and Jennifer Kluska (“Monster Pets: A Hotel Transylvania Short Film”) keep the action moving along and often have very little going on in the backgrounds. The human Dracula can be exposed to the sun and has a pollen allergy. Jonny is in the tiresome habit of referring to his father-in-law as “cranky fangs.” The execution features the usual “Hotel Transylvania” lame jokes, pratfalls and sight gags (juggling chainsaws, anyone?). Drac (Brian Hull) and Monster Johnny (Andy Samberg) search the South American rain forest to find a special crystal in Columbia Pictures’ ‘HOTEL TRANSYLVANIA: TRANSFORMANIA.’ When they realize what has happened, Mavis, Ericka and Drac’s buddies and their families follow along in Ericka’s steampunk dirigible. To replace it, human Dracula and monster Jonny must go to South America in a monster-piloted airplane to find another crystal in a cave in a distant rain forest. The same device accidentally turns Dracula into his human form, doing the same for his friends, before it is broken. When monsters want to get away from it all, they go to Count Dracula's (Adam Sandler) Hotel Transylvania, a lavish resort where they can be themselves without humans around to bother them. Grade: C+ Dracula is up to his very old vampire tricks in Hotel Transylvania. The trouble begins when Drac gets, uhh, cold feet and changes his announcement, forcing Jonny to go to Van Helsing’s lab in the hotel’s basement and agree to be transformed into a monster, actually a blue-green and yellow dragon, with a crystal “monsterification” gun invented by Van Helsing (Jim Gaffigan). MOVIE REVIEW HOTEL TRANSYLVANIA: TRANSFORMANIA Rated PG.
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