Hotel Transylvania is funny but to try's to hard

Rating: 5/10 (21 October 2012)

"The film brings back all of our favourite scary figures and try's to get as much humour out of them even though at times I felt myself being bored."
I've alway wondered what it would be like to bring all of those classic monster figures altogether in one film and with this attempt I feel maybe they should stay in their own single films. Dracula (Adam Sandler) at the start has set up this hotel to keep all monsters safe away from all humans who the monsters fear. Then while preparing Mavis (Selena Gomez) his daughter's 118th party the first human Jonathan (Andy Samberg) finds his way to this closed off hotel and Dracula does not want anyone to know so his makes Jonathan out to be one of the fellow monsters.
The film does change when Jonathan comes on as we see a relationship between Mavis and Jonathan start to blossom but also one with Dracula and Jonathan as he try's to get him to leave even after every other monster has fallen for him. The film does use some very fun animation tricks mostly present in the character design which is very good and it shows the looks of the actual actors very well.
Adam Sandler has one bad movie after another lately and this is just another one of those, he try's to do his best Dracula impression but some times I felt myself having to turn away because I could not stand to look at the screen to see what was going on. Andy Samberg does his second film with Sandler this year ("That's My Boy" was the other film they did together). Samberg plays the same character all the time and once again he is boring unlike other actor he's just being a human with not much funny moments. When the film started and we are introduced to Mavis it took me a while to notice it was Selena Gomez and I think that she was fine but her character was just about freedom and even when the film starts to go for the more touching moments between her and her father they felt unearned and I did not like them. All the other characters are not important and are just there to try be funny. Other actors doing voice overs include Steve Buscemi, Cee Lo Green, Kevin James (Once again working with Sandler) and many more.
This film had to much story to pack into the time it had which amounts up to about 90 minutes. The love story that happens in the film was uninteresting to me. Sandler once again has another film that has made me hate him even more then I once did.
MOVIE GRADE: D (MVP: Adam Sandler)