Krishna
Another 3D animated movie. In fact, this movie was a bit unexpected for me. Usually I go to movies with big expectations raised by the reviews and sometimes come back disappointed. Bridge to Terabithia is a good example of this. But mostly I am easy to please 🙂 and come away happy. This movie was the one that I went reluctantly to, discouraged by the drubbing it received in the reviews that I read and I was very pleasantly surprised.
I do not know what the critics found wrong but I went to see a movie that was pure entertainment (as in funny, given the trailers, which were good) and I got my entertainment in spades.
Even the twist that monsters are afraid of humans has been done many times. (For instance, in ParaNorman, reviewed earlier here) but this movie takes it a step further. Having lost his wife (vampire of course) in a fire, with little baby Mavis (Selena Gomez) in hand, Dracula (Adam Sandler), lovingly called Dracs by the rest of the monsters decides that he wants a safe haven from humans. He builds Hotel Transylvania, where no human can reach and is happy to bring her up there, with annual visits allowed to all monsters for a fear-free get together.
When Mavis reaches the tender age of 118, she wants to go see humans, and Dracs stages a scary human village that convinces, to his utter glee, Mavis that humans are indeed dangerous and she is better off staying forever away from them, in the impregnable hotel. But she misses company of her own age, and the parties there are soooo boring.
When a human, a young boy called Jonathan (Andy Samberg) enters the castle mistaking it to be a Halloween party costume monsters, the fun really begins. Dracs dresses him up in a “costume” too, to hide his true nature but when Mavis and Jonathan seem to fall for each other, the carefully built plans of Dracs threatens to come apart at the seams.
The movie is hilarious, the characters are really lively and funny, and the animation and the dialog are top class. What is not to like?
If you are going for pure entertainment, you will get it here.
Purely judging from that angle, I will give it a 8/10
— Krishna