Hotel Transylvania movie review

Comedian Adam Sandler is the driving force behind this production. He voices Count Dracula, has a hand in the writing and is also a producer. He also brings his friends along to give voice to a myriad of other characters who bounce out at you through the vision of 3D.

The simple story concerns the Count’s daughter, Mavis (Selena Gomez), who marries Jonathan (Andy Sandberg), a human, and they have baby, Dennis (Asher Blinkoff). Grandfather Dracula is deeply concerned his red-headed grandson might be human, so he goes to enormous lengths to try to make him a monster.

The retired Dracula runs a hotel for monsters where they can relax without the dangers of human contact. In the first film, the overprotective Dracula struggled with the attraction Mavis developed for a human slacker, Jonathan.

After the birth of Dennis, the film embraces the differences between the vampires and their human in-laws. It seems Dennis won’t know whether he is a human or a vampire until his fifth birthday, but Dracula is afraid Mavis will take a human Dennis away .

He arranges for Jonathan and Mavis to take a trip while he baby-sits Dennis. But his real plan is to gather his pals — Frankenstein (Kevin James), Wayne the werewolf (Steve Buscemi), Griffin the invisible man (David Spade) and Murray the mummy (Keegan-Michael Key) — to take a road trip and teach Dennis how to be a monster.

Hotel Transylvania 2 is funny and uplifting.