Hotel Transylvania 2 Review

Hotel Transylvania 2

Release Date: 26th November 2015 - Australia

Production Companies

Columbia Pictures (presents)

L Star Capital (in association with)

Sony Pictures Animation

Distribution

Sony Pictures Australia

Genre: Animation/Family/

Comedy 

Rating: PG

Runtime: 89 minutes

Budget: $80,000,000

Box Office Gross: $473,226,958 (Worldwide)

Plot Summary
Concerned that his
grandson Dennis, who is

part human and part

vampire, isn't showing

signs of being a vampire,

Dracula enlists his friends

to put him through a
"monster in training"
boot camp. Unbeknownst

to them, Drac's irritable,
old-fashioned father,
Vlad, is about to pay the
hotel a family visit. He's
going to be furious when
he finds out that his great-

grandson is not pure-blood

and that humans are now

welcome at Hotel 

Transylvania!

Voice Cast

Adam Sandler - Dracula

Andy Samberg - Jonathan

Selena Gomez - Mavis

Kevin James - Frankenstein

Steve Buscemi - Wayne

David Spade - Griffin the Invisible Man
Keegan-Michael Key - Murray

Asher Blinkoff - Dennis

Fran Drescher - Eunice
Molly Shannon - Wanda

Megan Mullally - Grandma Linda

Nick Offerman - Grandpa Mike

Dana Carvey - Dana

Rob Riggle - Bela 

Mel Brooks - Vlad

Jonny Solomon - Blobby

Chris Kattan - Kakie
Sadie Sandler - Winnie

Sunny Sandler - Infant Dennis/Vampire Kid

Jon Lovitz - The Phantom of the Opera
Robert Smigel - Marty/Harry Three-Eye/Navigator
Rose Abdoo - Ticket Agent
Luenell - Shrunken Heads

Jared Sandler - Tourist Driver

Melissa Sturm - Jogger #1/Tourist Passenger/Caren

Jennifer Lyter - Jogger #2

Paul Brittain - Pandragora
Nick Swardson - Kelsey
Chris Parnell - Mr. Fly

Doug Dale - Kal

Ethan Smigel - Troy

Roey Smigel - Yoga Monster

Kid
Allen Covert - Candle Cake

Monster

Crew

Director - Genndy Tartakovsky
Based on Characters - Todd Durham

Writer/Executive Producers -
Robert Smigel and Adam Sandler
Producer - Michelle Murdocca
Co-Producer - Skye Lyons

Executive Producers - Allen
Covert and Ben Waisbren

Character Designers - Andre
Medina, Stephen DeStefano, 

Tony Siruno and Craig Kellman
Production Designer - Michael Kurinsky

Art Director - Steve Lumley
Heads of Story - David Wachtenheim
and Robert Marianetti

Senior Animation Supervisor - Alan Hawkins
Supervising Animators - Joshua Beveridge,
Chad Ellis, Kevin Jackson, Jason Martinsen,

Valerie Morrison, Jeff Panko, Glenn Sylvester

and John Vassallo
Head of Layout - James C.J. Williams
Visual Effects Supervisor - Karl Herbst
Additional Visual Effects Supervisor -
Daniel Kramer

CG Supervisors - Mario Capellari,

Jason Greenblum, Andrew McPhillips,

Michael Muir and Chris Waegner

Effects Animation Supervisor - Patrick Witting

Editor - Catherine Apple

Supervising Sound Editor - Geoffrey G. Rubay

Re-Recording Mixers - Tom Johnson

and Michael Semanick

Supervising ADR/Dialogue Editor - Curt Schulkey

Foley Artists - Sarah Monat and Robin Harlan 

Music - Mark Mothersbaugh

Review

In 2012, I was in the cinema when I began to enjoy the screening of Hotel Transylvania and reviewed the film shortly after its showing. Two years later, a sequel was announced, with Genndy Tartakovsky reprising the directional helm of this newest chapter, with Adam Sandler and his buddies returning to do the voice-overs. Sandler is now on the Netflix online streaming service, as he's no longer interested in having his films released in cinemas, where they underperformed at the box office. Thanks to lowest common denominators, such as Jack and Jill, this has continued in the latest setback, Pixels. Fortunately for the middle-aged comedian, he had a few recent successes, but HOTEL TRANSYLVANIA 2 is no exception. It was on par with the first movie and is more comical, largely thanks to Sandler's contributions to the film's writing.

The plot could have been more skeletal, with several characters added and a few more scenes written for them. It wasn't as humanising as it could have been. For example, Mel Brooks' cantankerous old vampire Vlad would never appeared in the last third of the film. The comedy is becoming cleverer, cheesier, or more cartoonish, in stark contrast to the first movie. The animation is at its finest simplicity.

I have nothing to turn against this sequel, but the fact remains that nothing bad happened in HOTEL TRANSYLVANIA 2. It's worth watching for children and their families who want to see the film before the holidays.

Star rating: (7/10) Good Movie

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