Hotel Transylvania 3: Monster Vacation – Somer Valley FM Film Review

It’s the Summer holiday’s now, and one of the cheapest vacations is the cinema. But who to travel with? How about the Universal Monsters! Well then, let’s get ready for the cruise of a lifetime with Hotel Transylvania 3: Monster Vacation.

Dracula is lonely and unhappy. His daughter Mavis, to cheer him up, books a family vacation on a cruise. There he meets and falls in love with Ericka, the ship’s captain. Unfortunately, she is a Van Helsing and has sworn to destroy all monsters forever.

The Hotel Transilvania series is an odd one for me. It stars Adam Sandler and the rest of the Happy Gillmore crowd. The film is also brought to us by Sony Animations, the same studio that brought us The Emoji Movie. Due to these facts, I would have assumed that I would hate it with every fibre of my being. However, thanks to a unique spin on Universal movie monsters and excellent stylish animation these films have become guilty pleasures of mine.

Now with the third one, we have more creative world building. It expands our adventures to Atlantis, the Bermuda triangle and a gremlin controlled airline. The film’s director, Genndy Tartakovsky, creates some inventive set pieces as well as excellent physical and verbal humour. He blends 2d and 3d planes to create some of the most entertaining animated scenes you will see all year.

They may not add up to anything that interesting but from moment to moment it is some of the funniest scenes in a kids movie this summer. Due to the excellent voice cast yes that does include Sandler as Dracula as well as his regulars like Steve Buscemi as a Werewolf, David Spade as the Invisible Man and Kevin James as Frankenstein’s monster. It also the has deadpan delivery of Chris Parnell as an army of fishermen waiters and some odd one-offs like Tinkles, the giant dog, and Bob.

You will have tremendous fun with Hotel Transylvania 3: Monster Vacation. It has an important message and it doesn’t feel like your teeth would fall out due to the sheer amount of sugary sweetness and mindnumbing positivity. It also has some more adult jokes to help those taking their children through the 97 minute run time. The film explores characters you want to be around as they experience heightened, but relatable situations. Even if they happen to be voiced by Adam Sandler.

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