Hotel Transylvania 2

Hotel Transylvania 2 is a 2015 American computer-animated monster comedy film directed by Genndy Tartakovsky, written by Robert Smigel and Adam Sandler, and it is the second installment in the Hotel Transylvania franchise and the sequel to Hotel Transylvania (2012). Produced by Sony Pictures Animation, it was animated by Sony Pictures Imageworks, with an additional funding provided by LStar Capital.
Original voices from the first film — Adam Sandler, Andy Samberg, Selena Gomez, Kevin James, David Spade, Steve Buscemi, Molly Shannon, Fran Drescher, Rob Riggle, Sadie Sandler, Jonny Solomon, Luenell, Chris Parnell, and Jon Lovitz — returned for the sequel, with Keegan-Michael Key replacing CeeLo Green as Murray. New additions to the cast include Asher Blinkoff, Nick Offerman, Megan Mullally, Dana Carvey, and Mel Brooks.
The film was released on September 25, 2015, by Columbia Pictures. The sequel, Hotel Transylvania 3: Summer Vacation, was released in July 2018.
==Plot==
Some time after the events of the first film, Mavis and her fiancé Johnny are finally married, with the approval of her father Count Dracula, and the world becomes aware, and unafraid of the existence of monsters after the shut down of the monster hunting organizations and groups. A year after the wedding, Mavis reveals to Drac that she is pregnant and later gives birth to a baby boy who the couple name Dennis, nicknamed “Dennisovitch” by Dracula.
As Dennis's fifth birthday nears, he has yet to grow his fangs and Drac worries that his grandson might not gain vampire powers. Noticing the potential dangers her son might face living in Transylvania, Mavis starts to consider moving to California, Johnny’s hometown, in order to give Dennis a more “normal” childhood, much to Drac's disapproval. Drac tells Johnny (who does not want to leave the hotel either) to bring Mavis to California to visit his parents, Mike and Linda, but to make sure to keep her distracted so that she will not move, leaving Drac to "babysit" Dennis. Drac enlists his friends Frank, Wayne, Griffin, Murray, and Blobby to help train Dennis to become a monster, but everything he tries fails.
Meanwhile, in California, Mavis enjoys exploring a more human world, despite Johnny’s obvious reluctance to accept the safety and normality Dennis would experience growing up there. When the couple arrive at Mike and Linda’s house, Linda tries to make Mavis feel more comfortable by covering her room with spooky, Halloween decorations and inviting other monster/human couples over. Mavis retreats up to the roof with Johnny and tells him she doesn’t want Dennis to be “freaky” like her and grow up knowing nothing about the world. Johnny consoles her and tells her he would be the luckiest dad in the world if Dennis grew up to be like his mother.
Meanwhile, Drac and the gang arrive at Camp Winnepacaca, Drac’s childhood summer camp, where he learned to hone his vampire abilities. However, he is shocked and annoyed to find the camp has become much safer than it was when he went there. Drac stubbornly believes Dennis is a "late fanger", so he hurls Dennis from a tall, unstable tower to pressure the boy's transformation into a bat. Dennis, however, does not transform and Drac has to fly down and rescue him at the last second. The stunt is filmed by the campers and uploaded to the Internet, which eventually reaches Johnny and Mavis. Furious at this, Mavis and Johnny go back to Transylvania. Drac and his friends reach the hotel a couple of seconds after Mavis. She scolds her father for putting Dennis in grave danger and for his inability to accept that he is human. She states they will move out of the hotel after Dennis’s 5th birthday party the following Wednesday. Drac pleads with his daughter to reconsider but she refuses, telling him that while he may have let humans into the hotel, she doesn't think he can learn to let them into his heart.
The next day, Drac finds out Mavis invited Vlad, Drac's father, to Dennis's birthday party. As Vlad is much worse than he was when it comes to humans, Drac tells Johnny to have the human party-goers disguise themselves as monsters. Vlad receives the invitation and arrives with his monstrous bat-like servant Bela to meet his great-grandson for the first time. Meeting him, he believes that fear will cause Dennis' fangs to sprout and possesses a stage performer dressed as Dennis' favorite TV monster "Kakie the Cake Monster" to scare him, but Drac shields his frightened grandson at the last moment, breaks Vlad's hold over the performer, and exposes the deception to his father, who is outraged that Drac has accepted humans as guests in his hotel and let Mavis marry Johnny and have a human child. Drac confronts Vlad about how humans are different now. Mavis argues with her dad when she finds out he planned the ruse, eventually turning on Johnny when he reveals he doesn’t think Dennis will be happy in California. While the family argues, Dennis sadly flees the hotel and enters the forest with Wayne's daughter Winnie, who has a crush on him, in tow, hiding in her treehouse.
They are attacked by Bela, who overheard Mavis say that Dennis is a human. When Bela injures Winnie and threatens to destroy the hotel, Dennis's anger causes him to instantly grow his fangs and his vampire abilities manifest. He begins to fight Bela, who calls his giant-bat minions. Drac, Johnny, Mavis, Dennisovitch, the Loughran family, and the rest of the monsters team up to defeat Bela's minions and drive them away. A livid Bela then attempts to kill Johnny himself with a stake. However, having been won over by Drac's claim that humans now coexist peacefully, Vlad shrinks Bela and tells him never to bother his family again, saving Johnny. Bela then tries to flee, but is caught and licked excessively by the werewolf pups. With Dennis finally embracing his vampire abilities, Johnny and Mavis decide to continue raising him in Transylvania, and they resume the party with his friends and family.
==Cast==
*Adam Sandler as Count "Drac" Dracula: Mavis' father, Jonathan's father-in-law, and Dennis' maternal grandfather.
*Andy Samberg as Jonathan "Johnny" Loughran: Mavis' husband, Dennis' father, and son-in-law of Dracula.
*Selena Gomez as Mavis Dracula: Johnny's vampire wife, Dennis' overprotective mother, and daughter of Count Dracula and his late wife Martha.
*Kevin James as Frankenstein: Drac's friend who hangs with Murray.
*David Spade as Griffin the Invisible Man
*Keegan-Michael Key as Murray: a mummy who hangs with Frank. He was previously voiced by CeeLo Green in the first movie.
*Steve Buscemi as Wayne: a werewolf.
*Molly Shannon as Wanda: a werewolf and Wayne's wife.
*Fran Drescher as Eunice: the wife of Frankenstein
*Mel Brooks as Vlad: Dracula's father, Mavis' paternal grandfather, and Dennis' great grandfather.
*Asher Blinkoff as Dennisovitch "Dennis" Dracula-Loughran: Mavis and Johnny's dhampir son.
**Sunny Sandler as baby Dennisovitch Dracula-Loughran
*Sadie Sandler as Winnie: Wayne and Wanda's werewolf daughter.
*Megan Mullally as Linda Loughran: Johnny's mother, Mavis's mother-in-law, and Dennis' paternal grandmother.
*Nick Offerman as Michael "Mike" Loughran: Johnny's father, Mavis's father-in-law, and Dennis' paternal grandfather.
*Rob Riggle as Bela: Vlad's bat-like servant. Riggle was the voice of the Skeleton Husband from the first movie.
*Dana Carvey as Dana: the vampire camp director.
*Chris Kattan as Kakie: a cake monster from Dennis' favorite television series.
*Jon Lovitz as Erik: the Phantom of the Opera and the hotel's residential musician. He was the voice of Quasimodo from the first movie.
*Luenell as a Shrunken head.
*Paul Brittain as Pandragora: an easygoing monster with tentacled hair that lives in Santa Cruz.
*Nick Swardson as Paul: a bearded man who is Mike and Linda's neighbor.
*Chris Parnell as Fly: Hotel Transylvania's fitness instructor.
*Doug Dale as Kal: a Mini-Mart worker in Santa Cruz.
==Time Card==
*One Year Later
==Production==
Director Genndy Tartakovsky commented about the possibility of the sequel in October 2012, "Everyone is talking about it, but we haven't started writing it. There are a lot of fun ideas we could totally play with. It's a ripe world."
On November 9, 2012, it was announced that a sequel had been greenlit, and was scheduled for release on September 25, 2015.
On March 12, 2014, it was announced that Tartakovsky would return to direct the sequel, even though he was originally too busy due to his developing an adaptation of Popeye., which would later get shelved.
It was suggested by director Genndy Tartakovsky that Adam Sandler had more creative control over this film than its predecessor and that at times he was difficult to work with.
==Music ==
In March 2015, it was announced that Mark Mothersbaugh, who scored the first film, had signed on to score the sequel.
American girl group Fifth Harmony recorded a song for the film entitled "I'm in Love with a Monster". It was featured in the film's official trailer and was also played when the film itself was released.
==References==
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