aren’t trying any harder than they did in “Jack and Jill” or “Pixels.”ĭracula’s daughter, noting that the old man has carried a grudge against humans ever since an angry mob killed his wife, tells her father, “Maybe you’ve let humans into your hotel, Dad, but I don’t think you’ve let them into your heart.” It’s tragic that these bloodsucking ghouls are emotionally unavailable. When Mel Brooks checks in to play Dracula’s dad, harrumphing and looking exactly like Grandpa Munster, you realize Sandler and Co. The cast of “Hotel Transylvania 2” Sony Pictures Animation The movie is a sort of kindergarten “SNL” sketch extended by having Dracula break dance or by introducing Johnny’s boring parents (Megan Mullally, Nick Offerman) to stand around feeling awkward and get Drac’s blood coughed on them. The kids aren’t the only things being stretched: Even at 89 minutes, “Hotel Transylvania 2” is so full of digressions and filler and random zaniness that it seems to go on as long as Sandler’s career has been in decline. Instead of “Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star,” he sings “Suffer, Suffer Screaming Pain.” When little kids are around, his idea of treating them to yoga is having them stretched on a rack. “Did you have sweet nightmares?” is Dracula’s morning greeting to Dennis. The jokes stink like the Mummy’s armpits. The only story element worth mentioning is that the kid will reveal his nature at age 5, by which time a vampire’s fangs will appear, which means the movie mostly consists of killing time until the climactic fifth birthday party at the end. ![]() Mavis (voiced by Selena Gomez) and Dennis (voiced by Asher Blinkoff) Sony Pictures Animation Then everyone can continue to live happily together in a hotel built for monsters - Frankenstein, the Wolfman and the Invisible Man all hang around looking for laughs, as does a green gelatinous blob that looks like a dropout from “Monsters University.” If the boy turns out to be human, though, everyone plans to leave “Vampa” behind and move to California, where the bloodsucking figures to be merely metaphorical. Mavis and Johnny have a son named Dennis who Dracula hopes will grow up to be a vampire like himself. When she’s sick, he brings her “monster ball soup.” In the re-vamp “Hotel Transylvania 2,” Drac continues to be annoyingly overprotective with his daughter Mavis (Selena Gomez), who is now married to human Johnny (Adam Samberg). ![]() We’ve had sexy Draculas and old Draculas and scary Draculas, so give credit to Adam Sandler for fresh thinking: No, his animated “Hotel Transylvania” character isn’t a funny Dracula, but he may be the first Jewish mother Dracula. ![]() Susie Johnson Khalil ("Susie of Arabia"), "From Douglas.For Dracula catering to all of these legendary monsters is no problem but the party really starts when one ordinary guy stumbles into the hotel and changes everything!" (Amazon) More Details One special weekend, Dracula (Adam Sandler) has invited all his best friends – Frankenstein and his wife, the Mummy, the Invisible Man, the Werewolf family, and more – to celebrate his beloved daughter Mavis’s (Selena Gomez) 118th birthday. "Welcome to Hotel Transylvania, Dracula’s lavish five-stake resort, where monsters and their families can live it up and no humans are allowed. For Dracula catering to all of these legendary monsters is no problem but the party really starts when one ordinary guy stumbles into the hotel and changes everything!" (Amazon) Event Location 560 E. One special weekend, Dracula (Adam Sandler) has invited all his best friends – Frankenstein and his wife, the Mummy, the Invisible Man, the Werewolf family, and more – to celebrate his beloved daughter Mavis’s (Selena Gomez) 118th birthday. Vlad Dracula is the father of Drac and grandfather of Mavis introduced in Hotel Transylvania 2.Although he is named after the real Dracula, 15th-century warlord Vlad the Impaler Tepes, Vlad is said to be approximately 2,000 years old, making him more than three times the age Dracula would have been. ![]() Kids & Teens Spooky Movie: "Hotel Transylvania" T14:00:00
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