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Hotel Transylvania

Hotel Transylvania

Animation · Comedy · Family · 2012

Welcome to Hotel Transylvania, Dracula's lavish five-stake resort, where monsters and their families can live it up and no humans are allowed. One special weekend, Dracula has invited all his best friends to celebrate his beloved daughter Mavis's 118th birthday. 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!

Movie details

Hotel Transylvania

“Where monsters go to get away from it all.”

2012 Animation · Comedy · Family 1h 31m

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7.0 / 10

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Welcome to Hotel Transylvania, Dracula's lavish five-stake resort, where monsters and their families can live it up and no humans are allowed. One special weekend, Dracula has invited all his best friends to celebrate his beloved daughter Mavis's 118th birthday. 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!

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Names above the title

The people responsible.

Directed by

Genndy Tartakovsky

Written by

Dan Hageman · Kevin Hageman · Todd Durham · Peter Baynham

Selena Gomez

Selena Gomez

Mavis Dracula (voice)

Adam Sandler

Adam Sandler

Count Dracula (voice)

Andy Samberg

Andy Samberg

Jonathan Loughran (voice)

Kevin James

Kevin James

Frankenstein (voice)

Fran Drescher

Fran Drescher

Eunice (voice)

Steve Buscemi

Steve Buscemi

Wayne (voice)

Molly Shannon

Molly Shannon

Wanda (voice)

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Put Hotel Transylvania on trial.

Two incompatible taste archetypes. One film. Read the arguments, then issue a completely binding cultural ruling.

The defence The Sentimental Softie

“Sincerity is not manipulation.”

The film risks embarrassment to make emotion communal, and that openness is harder than fashionable detachment.

The prosecution The Cool Ironist

“The strings are showing.”

Every cue tells you exactly what to feel and when, leaving sentiment to do the work character should have done.