Lee's Movie Review of Hotel Transylvania

All star vocals make this a winner!
Lee - wrote on 01/31/13

For those of you that are loyal readers of my reviews (I love you all) you will know that i usually watch these kind of films due to my children. However now i am tending to watch alot of these computer animated (The new age cartoons) films on my own as i am really starting to enjoy them. Hotel Transylvania is one of them, my daughter had seen it in it's initial theatrical run and told me she really enjoyed it. To be perfectly honest I didn't have to watch it but I did and it wasn't a bad little family flick I might add.

An all star ensemble of talent lend their voices to this film, however the most recognized voice of the lot belongs to Adam Sandler who voiced for the cheif charector in the film Dracula. Dracula, who lost the love of his life years before and was left a daughter, now raises her in his over protective custody. Although Mavis (Selena Gomez) is technically 118 in vampire years, she is now driving her father crazy with wanting to get out and see the world dracula has a major problem with this, as he fears that what happened to his wife years ago (she was lynched and erased by the human city folk) will more than likely happen to his daughter so there fore keeping her on a very tight leash not allowing her to venture out into the world.

Along comes a human boy, who gets lost whilst on a back packing trip with his friends, accidentally stumbles upon Drac's hotel for monsters. Drac afraid that once word broke out amongst his patrons that a human was there might cause the monsters to flee hishotel, dresses up Jonathan (Voiced by Andy Samberg) as a Frankenstein type charector and emerges him onto the hotel as the real Frankenstein's (Also a patron at the hotel and is voiced by Kevin James) third cousin removed. It's not long before the love bug bites botrh Jonathan and Mavis causing more stress and grief for her father.

Overall this film had a great storyline to it as I found that it stood out amongst it's animated competitors that had been released as of late, for originality, and that my friends is what enticed me in the beginning to watch this.