Hotel Transylvania (EOTWS)

End Of The Week Shorts #26 extract: Hotel Transylvania (2012)

Hotel Transylvania is... I suppose you could say that it's a passable kids' movie. Somewhat enjoyable, but very dumb, this isn't hard to sit through. However, if you chose to judge this film harshly... well, you'd have a lot to say. 

I'm fairly certain that if we resurrected Bram Stoker and made him sit through all of the films that have been made over the decades that involve Dracula, by the time he got to this, he'd have died of heart failure. The height of bastardisation and an exhausted piece of cinema, Hotel Transylvania is just a highly cliched, not at all smart, throw away movie. What stands out most to me is Sandler's shameless performance. When I imagine him recording this nonsense I can only bow my head and think of one word: fool. 

Without much more to say, this movie does quite well in keeping kids quiet for a while, but, I'm not sure how great of an achievement that is.