Still, the material is a lot stronger than anything in the premise-squandering Pixels or lackluster Paul Blart sequel.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Feb 25, 2016

Littered with clichs and rehashed gags, the sequel's strength rests on the impressive art and animation. The simplistic gags might just work with young audiences.

| Dec 15, 2015

A clever and funny animated romp that kids and adults will enjoy.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Dec 4, 2015

Kids are not likely to get the jokes about Gary Oldman​'s wig in the 1992 film Dracula, nor sympathise closely with the emotional difficulties Drac faces in becoming a grandparent. Adults... will have seen virtually all of this before.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Dec 1, 2015

Like the first entry in this animated Sony Pictures franchise, the film is spirited, engaging, and has an idea: it's about mutual tensions between the undead and the living, who have forged a truce up in the Carpathians.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Oct 25, 2015

Proving once again that, with the exception of Punch-Drunk Love, Adam Sandler is at his most tolerable when you can't see him, this perfunctory animation sequel provides innocuous pre-Halloween/half-term distraction.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Oct 18, 2015

An engaging and sometimes witty coming-of-age story, it is a patch above some of Sandler's recent live-action films.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Oct 16, 2015

Hotel Transylvania 2 is a consistently amusing vampire animation.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Oct 15, 2015

A fangless sequel.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Oct 15, 2015

"Hotel Transylvania 2" is an unfortunate throwback to about 20 years ago, when animated movies were more widely accepted as cinematic babysitters.

| Original Score: 1/4 | Sep 30, 2015

Hotel Transylvania 2 is the greatest movie Adam Sandler and Kevin James have ever made together. I believe this is called "damning with faint praise."

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Sep 29, 2015

So much attention has been paid to crafting a relentless string of in-jokes meant for ancient horror fans that the storyline limps from tired blood.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Sep 28, 2015

Yes, every joke in the film is low-hanging fruit, but not a single one is left unpicked.

| Sep 27, 2015

Intimate observations on the modern family are not what you expect from an animated sequel meant to keep Sandler's career undead.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Sep 25, 2015

The onslaught [of gags] isn't painful, but neither does it do much to distract from the ho-hum story.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Sep 25, 2015

This subpar sequel barely comes close to being as amusing as any run-of-the-mill "Munsters" 온라인카지노추천 episode.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Sep 25, 2015

"Be yourself" proves the obvious takeaway from these exploits, this being a children's movie. I'm just not sure the message rang clear among the sounds of the children screaming.

| Original Score: 1/4 | Sep 25, 2015

The whole thing is amiable and colorful and surprisingly low on body-function gags. It may not kill you to take your kids.

| Sep 25, 2015

When you're looking for silly fun with a hug at the end, that's just fine.

| Original Score: B- | Sep 24, 2015

Genndy Tartakovsky is a talented director who knows how to telegraph what an animated character is thinking and doing and how to move a character in ways that suggest personality. He deserves a more interesting assignment.

| Sep 24, 2015