Hotel Transylvania 2

2015 "They're back to raise a little terror"
6.6| 1h29m| PG| en| More Info
Released: 25 September 2015 Released
Producted By: Columbia Pictures
Country: United States of America
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When the old-old-old-fashioned vampire Vlad arrives at the hotel for an impromptu family get-together, Hotel Transylvania is in for a collision of supernatural old-school and modern day cool.

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view_and_review Our lesson in acceptance continues. Part one was about Count Dracula accepting humans. Part two was about Count Dracula accepting his new grandson who's half human half vampire.I fell asleep. The story at its core, while positive, was nothing new at all. Even the characters fell into the same roles. We got to see more bumbling Dracula, mad Mavis, aloof Jonathan, and the rest of the misfit monsters doing what they were best at.The Hotel Transylvania franchise has not grown on me at all. With so many animation franchises out there this one fails to distinguish itself.
paulclaassen Everything that made the first film so cute and lovable is missing from this installment. Cartoonish and silly, this sequel is more annoying than funny and lacks entertainment value, as if an idea was rushed into production. This is definitely for a younger demographic, who might enjoy the bunch of silly, stupid characters, and the plot-less plot.
The Movie Diorama Well, we all knew this was going to turn into a ghoulish franchise. In this sequel, Dracula and the gang welcomes his grandson to the family. Adamant that he is more vampire than human, he tries to scare the fangs out of him to prove it. Meanwhile, Mavis explores the human world to gain first hand experience of living in it before making a decision as to whether to stay in Transylvania or not. Also Dracula's father makes an appearance, as does the same recycled jokes and monster puns. This is the pure definition of safe recycling, nothing substantially new was added because they were (ironically) to scared to change it up. They took the first film, disassembled it and thought "hmmmm...what can we do to make a fresh sequel?", to which they then created a brand spanking new story that has less life and cohesion than an idle zombie. Again, it's just a montage of "funny" scenes stringed together. The worst part is they actually reused the same jokes, to precision. "Scream Cheese", "I'm Dracula blah blah blahhh" and the annoying, infuriating and life draining usage of pop music. This time, it wasn't even used properly!? The characters just randomly bust a move to Pitbull! I physically cannot fathom why anyone thinks that's a good idea. The story is incredibly tame, there is no peril. No antagonist until the last five minutes in what I can only describe as an unmemorable fight scene. The constant references to smartphones and apps in an attempt to stay current is embarrassing. It's not all doom and gloom. The animation is still pleasant, voice casting consistently fine and the shared screen time of all the monsters was a requirement that they actually fulfilled. Yes, children will relate and will enjoy this for what it is, so in a sense the film succeeds entertaining its target audience. But us poor adults shouldn't be made to watch drivel like this. Many more intelligent animations out there, watch them instead. Urghhh...got to sit through the third one soon.
moofyieman This sequel was really without the humour of part 1. Where in the original the atmosphere was breathtaking, this was just hey, look at how funny us monsters can be like. Lots of jokes for adults only to understand or appreciated. So short slapstick kind of takes but no real story let alone character developing. The kids a was watching this movie with were quiet almost throughout the whole movie except for the end were finally some plot came about. We really loved the characters from the original movie so it was fun to see them again but it was sometimes painful to see all the short jokes I understood went blank on the kids. A solid 6 stars though. Not too shabby for a Friday night.