Hotel Transylvania’s monster mash is utterly hollow.

| Original Score: 2/5 | May 3, 2024

Hotel Transylvania isn't a brilliant animated feature, but it is a consistently entertaining one with Sandler's trademark silliness mixed with sweetness.

| Original Score: 3.0/4.0 | Sep 11, 2020

The way this collection of monster misfits tackle both each other and the threat of human invasion has the right degree of wit and sophistication to amuse adults whilst being zany and slapstick enough to hold children's attention.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Feb 5, 2019

As a straight up monster movie, this film could have had a lot of fun diving further into the stereotypes... and then extending the confrontation that occurs at the end. Instead it's weighed down by the teen romance and need to conceal Jonathan.

| Oct 20, 2018

The movie is hardly top-notch stuff.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Oct 25, 2017

Classic Saturday morning cartoon material, very silly and very much aimed at 5 year-olds.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Apr 12, 2016

This 91-minute mash-up of Halloween creatures and non-stop silliness hits the ground running and virtually never slows down.

| Aug 26, 2015

It's isn't awful. Just terribly pleasant, that's all.

Full Review | May 3, 2015

Kids might be briefly entertained by the early onslaught of monsters, but the plot concerning the over-anxious father is soon tedious, especially as Sandler repeats the corny Dracula voice he's been doing since his Saturday Night Live days.

| Original Score: 4/10 | Mar 4, 2015

Has the definite stamp of Sandler and his crew, but in the end it's a fine and very sweet animated family film.

| Oct 7, 2013

In the role of a concerned father and cartoon monster, Sandler manages to be something he has not been onscreen in a long time: likable.

| Jul 20, 2013

Kids will enjoy Hotel Transylvania, and it won't bore the socks off adults too.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jan 20, 2013

There's a good chance that children under 10 will find "Hotel Transylvania" entertaining, because it's as non-threatening as can be and the jokes are obvious. There's an equally good chance that everyone else will wander off . . .

| Original Score: 5/10 | Jan 19, 2013

From the spooked start, the comic-rhythm dial's set to bulldozer. Whizzes through the superficially amusing conceit without actually taking much time to craft cunning comedy. Like a sugar-rushed Count Chocula-meets-Fawlty-Towers idea.

| Nov 22, 2012

This is a perfectly O.K. animated film. The animation is really quite good. The characters are interesting, but the predictable story isn't very compelling. It is a slightly above average animated feature.

| Original Score: C+ | Nov 20, 2012

Director Genndy Tartakovsky has fashioned something even the most sensitive little flowers in your family can enjoy.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Oct 30, 2012

Hotel Transylvania might be useful as a primer to introduce young film fans to some classic screen creatures, but it falls way behind the standard set by wittier animations from the likes of Pixar and Aardman.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Oct 27, 2012

The concept of monsters as the good guys and humans as the villains is nothing new in the realm of movies, but Tartakovsky keeps things moving along at a satisfying pace as the stellar voice cast have a field day with their iconic characters.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Oct 19, 2012

... another empty-calorie animated feature ...

| Original Score: 2/5 | Oct 18, 2012

Checking into this hotel will give you a thrill and get you in the mood for Halloween.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Oct 17, 2012