Film Review: Hotel Transylvania
Here is an animated family comedy about a hotel set up by Count Dracula to be a restful hideaway for creepy creatures and beasties of all sorts who need a respite from being perpetually persecuted by the civilians and muggles and general non-scary humans. The Count (voiced by Adam Sandler) is very protective about his teenage daughter Mavis (Selena Gomez), and is intensely annoyed when a gormless, lost human hitchhiker, Jonathan (Andy Samberg), accidentally blunders up to the hotel asking for a room, and she takes a shine to him. Comedy gothic isn’t exactly novel, and frankly there is a sense here of a movie coasting along on Halloween hype-marketing, without providing as many laughs and ideas as it really could have done.
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