Stay away from this lifeless franchise

Even if you liked these movies until now, the third time has lost all the charm.

For such animated animation, there is not much to do Hotel Transylvania 3: Summer Vacation . The latest installment of a series started in 2012 follows a 2015 sequel and a newly created pre-singing TV show, and the concept seems to be running out of steam. This tends to be obvious when a franchise departs from its initial premise and tries to branch out, and this time the entire gang of cartoon monsters leave the eponymous Transylvania Hotel and take a cruise – a hotel on the water – as a set of sitcom taking a First of all, we receive a prologue and montage featuring the sworn enemy of the monsters, Van Helsing (voiced by Jim Gaffigan), who appears to be death without success. to hunt monsters at the end of the 19th century. Back in modern times, the film follows Count Dracula (Adam Sandler), his vampire daughter Mavis (Selena Gomez), her human husband and their half-vampire son (Andy Samberg and Asher Blinkoff) and their extended family of creatures whose Invisible Man (David Spade), Wayne the werewolf (Steve Buscemi), his wife Wanda (Molly Shannon), and their huge littermates on a monster getaway.

The kick is that they were all drawn – coincidentally, when Mavis unexpectedly decides to give dad a break from work – at the special cruise, which begins at the Bermuda Triangle and heads to the lost city of Atlantis, by Van Helsing, still alive, and his great-granddaughter Erika (Kathryn Hahn), still alive, to kill them all at once. But Dracula falls in love with the human woman, who serves as captain of the ship. In the meantime, she just wants to kill him as soon as she can, because she's been raised to hate him so pbadionately. This conflict should spark many comedian rewards, but the best of the movie has to offer is Dracula pbading gas at a rendezvous with Erika after she slips garlic oil. in their guacamole.

At least, there is recognition right now of one of the canonical ways of dealing with a vampire. Before the scene, Erika tries to kill Dracula in various ways, including throwing a flare on him and dropping a lifeboat on his head, missing each time like Wile E. Coyote trying to capture the Road Runner. But why is she doing so many attempts with such non-lethal ammunition? Has she only been trained to hate Dracula and monsters in general without being taught about heart issues and bullets, etc.? Apparently, filmmakers have just forgotten or ignored such details to go with easier gag configurations.

While finally the main plot gives his young audience a lesson in rooted racism, with Erika starting to see good traits in Dracula and the rest of the monsters, there's really just enough history to complete a half-hour TV show. The rest is filled with his reminders that there are many more characters aboard, including Frankenstein's Creature (Kevin James), his wife (Fran Drescher), Murray the Mummy (Keegan Michael-Key) and the father of Dracula (Mel Brooks). They occasionally get bits or subplots that go nowhere. If most of the live movies of Adam Sandler's band can be accused of simply having given their paid vacation, a lot of Hotel Transylvania 3 seems to be just an excuse to give them a easy salary.

The director of the franchise continues Genndy Tartakovsky are competing all the characters with skill, never letting the frenetic animation overload the senses of our parents who escort our children less attentive to their show of literal gibberish and litter. And there are some decent footage, including a flight on Gremlin Airlines that reminded me of the anarchic concept of the Oscar Grouch-style traveling traveling show featured long ago in the film Sesame Street Bird ]. In addition, a tango through a series of traps during an Indiana Jones-esque treasure hunt is satisfying, if not very original.

Still, all we can hope for with the brand Hotel Transylvania is that its fans will one day advance to much better inspirations, not just old novels and movies whose characters are based but also the most amusing monster musts (for example Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein and the animated parody Mad Monster Parody? ) and the parodies – the 92-year-old Brooks do can not spend his last years taking part in these hype for nothing; he surely hopes that a new generation will eventually discover his own monster comedies, the masterpiece Young Frankenstein and the slightest dispatch Dracula: Dead and Loving It [19459009evenifit'snottheretoseeithappen

The first Hotel Transylvania is also worthy of becoming a minor clbadic for children, compared to this sequel anyway. There are real jokes in this film from an entertaining story with a clever story that does not depend too much on a villain's plot. The hotel Transylvania 3 is more like an infomercial for a potential real monster-themed family cruise (Sony must have considered the possibility) featuring all these characters and their disappointing recreational activities without inspiration , like "monster ball" (just the volleyball where the ball is alive) and the old ordinary casino games – really, guys, not even a try for puns like Batcarrat or Pai Ghoul?

At some point in the film, Murray mummy says, "You must be taller than the enemies." It's a replica in response to patrimonial racism, and this may remind some of the big people in the movie. public policy "when they go low, we go high" concept or more simply the Golden Rule. For me, it also means that you have to do better if you want to avoid negative reviews, and Hotel Transylvania 3 does not seem to have tried very hard. There is little laughter, nothing interesting about the characters we have not seen yet, and nothing specific that the target audience will remember without (inevitable) rehearsals. Avoid this one, if you can.