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Rating: 3/10 (21 February 2013)

To be perfectly honest I have to admit that this put me to sleep and I missed a good chunk of it. We were looking for a family movie to watch with our daughter. I had heard good things about this, our daughter (who's 8) had mentioned wanting to see it, so we rented it. She may have enjoyed it. She laughed a handful of times and, as far as I know, she stayed awake. Frankly, it did nothing for me.
It was rather frenetic at the beginning - too much so for my liking. It struck me as being sort of Monsters, Inc. after drinking one too many Red Bulls. The story (of Dracula as an overprotective father wanting to protect his daughter from the outside world) was paper thin. The reversal of roles was a bit cute. In this, the monsters are hidden away from the real world because they're afraid of humans. It was pretty obvious where this was going to go, so there was little to really hold my interest.
Altogether, I found this disappointing. I can't completely write it off, because my daughter did laugh that handful of times, but I'd still say that it was much weaker than I was hoping for. (3/10)