No Stars for this Hotel

Review: Hotel Transylvania

Adam Sandler (That's My Boy) in a children's movie. It's not something that sounds as bizarre as it would have 10 years ago as Sandler has attempted to expand his audience to the elementary school demographic with mixed results. Hotel Transylvania does little to move the perception of Sandler as a mediocre children's comedian in either direction.

In the animated film, Dracula tries to manage his hotel for monsters while keeping his daughter from falling in love with a human who has discovered their secret paradise.

Hotel has a few moments which can make you smile and even laugh out loud, yet it largely fails to rise above fart and kick-in-the-nuts humor and does little to pay real homage to the otherwise legendary monsters found in the hotel.

The large voice cast is fun to hear, with Andy Samberg (Celeste & Jesse Forever) as the bumbling human giving us the most opportunity to laugh, but famous voices do little to make up for a script that really could have been much funnier.

The Final Word: Don't even bother.