Hotel Transylvania

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Hotel Transylvania

PG

Released Sep 28, 2012

1h 31m

Kids & Family

Comedy

Fantasy

Animation

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When monsters want to get away from it all, they go to Count Dracula's (Adam Sandler) Hotel Transylvania, a lavish resort where they can be themselves without humans around to bother them. On one special weekend, Dracula invites creatures like the Invisible Man, the Mummy and others to celebrate the 118th birthday of his daughter, Mavis (Selena Gomez). However, an unforeseen complication unfolds when an ordinary human unwittingly crashes the party and falls in love with Mavis.

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Critics Consensus

Hotel Transylvania's buoyant, giddy tone may please children, but it might be a little too loud and thinly-scripted for older audiences.

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Tara Brady

Irish Times

The characters and story, forged by six different directors and many more writers over a six-year-production stint, leave little room for Tartakovsky tricks and tics.

Rated: 2/5

Oct 13, 2012

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Peter Bradshaw

Guardian

Comedy gothic isn't exactly novel, and frankly there is a sense here of a movie coasting along on Halloween hype-marketing, without providing as many laughs and ideas as it really could have done.

Rated: 2/5

Oct 11, 2012

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Tom Huddleston

Time Out

No one does saccharine like Adam Sandler. The man can be sharp, angry and funny - but when he lays on the sweetness, it's like drowning in an avalanche of Tate & Lyle.

Rated: 2/5

Oct 11, 2012

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Michael Leader

Den of Geek

Hotel Transylvania’s monster mash is utterly hollow.

Rated: 2/5

May 3, 2024

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Richard Propes

TheIndependentCritic.com

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

Rated: 3.0/4.0

Sep 11, 2020

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Cleaver Patterson

CineVue

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.

Rated: 3/5

Feb 5, 2019

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Riles M

Les suites ont beau ne pas être les plus recommandables, Hotel Transylvania premier du nom est vachement sympathique, guère parfait mais bon niveau Sony, hormis MvsM et Spiderverse c'est assez hit or miss mais pour moi, HT est un bon gros hit niveau message et animation 👌

Rated 4 out of 5 stars

07/07/25

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Erland S

It's a decent kids movie, sad to see they threw away all decent meaning with the other movies.

Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars

07/02/25

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Tiffani L

Amazing best ever so cool

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

06/21/25

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Lincoln D

Rated 3 out of 5 stars

06/12/25

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animat seal of approval

Oy hi Animat, how dare you give hotel Transylvania, the animat seal over approval you dumb guy, cough cough excuse me right now if you’re watching this, please give hotel Transylvania the animat seal of approval right now ah ah ah oh I got a to be honest with you guys before seeing it. I actually fought hotel Transylvania says that Sony pictures animation read the new millennium after the low points with surf up to 11 years later at the top by a engaging Fascinating story Beautiful animation and relaxing, and perfect characters that nothing to see at grade one this is a much watch for everyone animation fans and Sony fans what door it immediately and non-fans and some of my fans will enjoy it as well no doubt about it that it gets the animat seal of approval but it took me a lot of thinking by its rating I almost will never do something like this like ever but for a movie for this Vancouver, I think it’s time to make a milestone here just like Superman

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

06/11/25

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K G

Adam Sandler has given a take on horror story characters with this movie to prove that those sorts of monsters do have feelings. To start off, I enjoyed the casting with Adam Sandler himself as Count Dracula, Selena Gomez as Mavis, Kevin James & Fran Deuscher as the Frankenstein couple & Andy Samberg as Johnny. Speaking of Adam Sandler, his character was ever so funny, he was so moody because of his backstory which is similar to Manny from Ice Age, except he had more energy than him. Johnny was weird funny too, even with his modern COOL lifestyle & listening to LMFAO music. It just proves some monsters can be scary, but sometimes, they are actually very friendly.

Rated 4 out of 5 stars

06/05/25

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Genndy Tartakovsky

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Adam Sandler

Dracula

Andy Samberg

Jonathan

Selena Gomez

Mavis

Kevin James

Frankenstein

Fran Drescher

Eunice

Hotel Transylvania: Official Clip - Monster Festival

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Hotel Transylvania: Official Clip - The Zing Song

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Hotel Transylvania: Official Clip - Johnnystein

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Hotel Transylvania: Official Clip - Welcome to Hotel Transylvania!

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Hotel Transylvania: Official Clip - The Legend of Lady Lubov

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Hotel Transylvania: Official Clip - Pouty Bat Face

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Hotel Transylvania: Official Clip - Tracking Johnny

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Synopsis

When monsters want to get away from it all, they go to Count Dracula's (Adam Sandler) Hotel Transylvania, a lavish resort where they can be themselves without humans around to bother them. On one special weekend, Dracula invites creatures like the Invisible Man, the Mummy and others to celebrate the 118th birthday of his daughter, Mavis (Selena Gomez). However, an unforeseen complication unfolds when an ordinary human unwittingly crashes the party and falls in love with Mavis.

Director: Genndy Tartakovsky
Producer: Michelle Murdocca
Screenwriter: Peter Baynham, Robert Smigel
Distributor: Sony Pictures Entertainment
Production Co: Sony Pictures Animation
Rating: PG (Scary Images|Action|Some Rude Humor)
Genre: Kids & Family, Comedy, Fantasy, Animation
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): Sep 28, 2012, Wide
Release Date (Streaming): Sep 7, 2014
Box Office (Gross USA): $167.9M
Runtime: 1h 31m
Sound Mix: Dolby Atmos, Dolby Digital, SDDS, Datasat
Aspect Ratio: Flat (1.85:1)

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