It’s gratifying that the Dracula in these “Hotel Transylvania” films has been based on the character played, and in fact created by, the, yes, hypnotic Bela Lugosi in the 1931 Todd Browning landmark “Dracula.” The Universal horror film classics of the 1930s remain a rite-of-passage for kids everywhere. We get mosquito jokes, piranha jokes and a toasted marshmallow bit. Writers Amos Vernon, Nunzio Randazzo and Genndy Tartakovsky, the latter of “Samurai Jack” fame, have somehow managed to make Drescher unfunny, nothing short of a miracle. Stop me if any of this sounds funny to you.ĭirectors Derek Drymon and Jennifer Kluska (“Monster Pets: A Hotel Transylvania Short Film”) keep the action moving along and often have very little going on in the backgrounds. The human Dracula can be exposed to the sun and has a pollen allergy. Jonny is in the tiresome habit of referring to his father-in-law as “cranky fangs.” The execution features the usual “Hotel Transylvania” lame jokes, pratfalls and sight gags (juggling chainsaws, anyone?). Drac (Brian Hull) and Monster Johnny (Andy Samberg) search the South American rain forest to find a special crystal in Columbia Pictures’ ‘HOTEL TRANSYLVANIA: TRANSFORMANIA.’ When they realize what has happened, Mavis, Ericka and Drac’s buddies and their families follow along in Ericka’s steampunk dirigible. To replace it, human Dracula and monster Jonny must go to South America in a monster-piloted airplane to find another crystal in a cave in a distant rain forest. The same device accidentally turns Dracula into his human form, doing the same for his friends, before it is broken. The trouble begins when Drac gets, uhh, cold feet and changes his announcement, forcing Jonny to go to Van Helsing’s lab in the hotel’s basement and agree to be transformed into a monster, actually a blue-green and yellow dragon, with a crystal “monsterification” gun invented by Van Helsing (Jim Gaffigan). The friends and family include, of course, his daughter Mavis (Selena Gomez), his annoying, human, skater-boy son-in-law Jonathan aka Jonny (Adam Samberg), his fiance Ericka Van Helsing (Kathryn Hahn) and his fellow monster buddies Frank aka the Frankenstein monster (Brad Abrell) and his bride Eunice (Fran Drescher), Wayne aka the Wolf Man (Steve Buscemi), Griffin the Invisible Man (David Spade), and Murray aka the Mummy (Keegan-Michael Key). Voiced by Brian Hull of “Monster Pets: A Hotel Transylvania Short Film” (2021), this new Dracula sounds not unlike the Sandler version.Īt the outset, the Count is planning on retiring and making the announcement at a big party he has thrown for his friends and family, where zombies wait tables. Sandler voiced the character of Count Dracula in the first three films and served as an executive producer. The voice cast of Hotel Transylvania: Transformania also features Selena Gomez, Kathryn Hahn, Steve Buscemi, Molly Shannon, Keegan-Michael Key, Fran Drescher, Bred Abrell, and Asher Blinkoff.Adam Sandler and Sony Pictures Animation parted ways for reasons unknown before the making of this fourth in the series. Even so, Tartakovsky still signs Hotel Transylvania: Transformania script, which he wrote with feature film first-timers Amos Vernon and Nunzio Randazzo. Adam Sandler, who voiced Count Dracula for the first three movies, is also absent in Transformania.įinally, Genndy Tartakovsky stepped down from the director’s chair, leaving the place to Derek Drymon ( SpongeBob SquarePants) and Jennifer Kluska (DC Super Hero Girls). The sequel will be the first franchise’s installment to skip theater after Prime Video bought the rights for the movie for an impressive $100 million. Hotel Transylvania: Transformania also changes the franchise’s identity behind the cameras. RELATED: ‘Hotel Transylvania: Transformania’ Filmmakers on Changing Technology and Why They Had to Cut Five Minutes From the Third Act
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