all the elements for a great movie...

Rating: 7/10 (1 May 2013)

As mentioned, the characters for Hotel Transilvania look (and sound) a lot like the characters of Despicable Me. Unfortunately it is not as great as that movie. The plot takes a long time to take off, and there is not much going on between the characters. It does have all the right ingredients for a fantastic movie (funny characters, nice animation etc.), but somehow it does not quite seem to work. It seems to me that Quasimodo was introduced to spice things up, but he literally falls out of the sky. Nevertheless, it is fun to watch and very enjoyable. Just don't expect any real surprises story-wise. You know how this is going to end when you are 15 minutes into the movie. I think with a little more effort they could have done so much more with this film...