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75The cutest darn thing in Hotel Transylvania is the way Count Dracula spazzes into a brilliant red devil-face when provoked. The second-cutest thing is his annoyed response to being misquoted by idiot humans.
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75There's enough here to entertain - and gross out - the kiddie crowd, and parental units, too
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75Hotel Transylvania doesn't raise the bar for animation or comedy but it's fun, and nice for once to have a different reason to say "boo" after an Adam Sandler flick.
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75Hotel Transylvania is very different from its contemporaries. You just wish that, with so much emphasis on chaos, they could have spent a little more time on character.
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Sep 30, 201270The pleasantly disposable animated flick Hotel Transylvania, which gathers all the monsters in the world under one roof, is better than it should be, if not quite as good as it could be.
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70Although it doesn't worry itself with dialectic complexities, Hotel Transylvania succeeds on the level of entertainment.
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67It's the parental mush about trusting one's kid to make her own discoveries and blah blah blah (spoken in a Sandlerized version of a Dracula voice) that drains the movie of blood. What's left are platitudes, and Sandler singing a novelty song in a Transylvanian-accented falsetto.
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63It's juvenile from start to finish, which is fine if you're young, but not so great if your sole purpose in a theater is to accompany someone who's young.
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63A serviceable animated movie about a soft-hearted Dracula.
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63While it's an energetic romp, there is more slapstick humor than wit at work here, and a good deal of borrowing from the far more clever "Monsters, Inc."
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63Some might say there isn't enough that's fresh here to recommend the movie in a big way, except that every generation of trick-or-treaters deserves its monster mash.
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Oct 1, 201260Despite the all-star talent, an overload of sight gags and an always-amiable vibe, Genndy Tartakovsky's monster house is a bit too loony for its own good.
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60For the first half of the film, amusing monster humor keeps things interesting; some monsters, it turns out, are better at party games than others.
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60As a vampire might say, "Be- vaaare , all who enter here above the age of 7! What lies on the screen ... is not for you !"
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58Hotel Transylvania is occasionally the kind of fast-moving, gag-a-second film that relies on quantity of humor rather than quality.
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50Entertaining enough for the trick-or-treat crowd, but a bit more bite wouldn't kill it.
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50Has a big-name cast, a cute premise and... and... hang on, thinking here. Nope. That's about it.
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Sep 26, 201250No surprises or major laughs here, but as far as Sandler family fare goes, it's inoffensive enough.
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Sep 22, 201250Yet another instance of a decent, potentially thorny premise bogged down in a mess of treacly sentiment and tedious moralizing.
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40Comedy 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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40An animation that never drags itself out of mediocrity despite the best efforts of gifted animator Tartakovsky.
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40The problem is that Jonathan is possibly the most annoying romantic lead in any film in recent memory. His gnarly, X-Games-loving, righteous-dude shtick is so grating that my frustration with the lack of ferocity in the movie's monsters may be largely because I kept wishing one of them would act like a proper monster and tear him limb from limb.
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40There are some crowd-pleasers - but Hotel Transylvania never becomes the great monster mash that seemed in the offing.
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40Hotel Transylvania isn't a complete stinker. Sandler, speaking in a pitch close to his Opera Man routine from his days on Saturday Night Live, is less obnoxious than usual. The visuals are consistently enticing - the castle/hotel is artfully rendered...And there are some bright and funny lines.
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40So why does this animated kids' film fail to come together? Bursts of manic pacing steamroll over most of the wit, a little of Sandler's thick-accent shtick goes a looong way, and by the time the requisite life lessons about letting your offspring leave the nest get rolled out, the undead-on-arrival jokes are outnumbered by anemic sitcom gags.
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Sep 22, 201240A stale overprotective-dad story set within a location that could easily house a more inspired mix of characters and events.
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40Hotel Transylvania checks in as an anemic example of pure concept over precious little content.
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38After six years in development, this comedy starring and produced by Adam Sandler feels as slapped together one of the comedian's live-action buddy movies.
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Sep 28, 201225The only reliable smiles come courtesy of Steve Buscemi, a frequent presence in Sandler movies, here voicing an exasperated, over-extended werewolf dad.
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25Dominated by Adam Sandler's D-minus Bela Lugosi impression, the 3-D animated feature Hotel Transylvania illustrates the difference between engaging a young movie audience and agitating it, with snark and noise and everything but the funny.
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20It features predictable humor and an underdeveloped story.
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11As for Hotel Transylvania,, no need to put a stake in it, it's deadly dull already.