Finding Dennis/Finding Mavis Plot

## Finding Dennis

Dracula is a vampire who lives in a bedroom in Hotel Transylvania. His wife, Ericka, and most of their babies are killed in an Indoraptor attack. Only one damaged baby remains, which Dracula names Dennis.

Years later, Drac is overprotective of Dennis. On Dennis's first day of school, Dracula embarrasses Dennis, and the two fight. While Dracula is talking to Dennis's teacher, Dennis defiantly approaches a nearby airship, where he is captured by a pair of hunters. Dracula pursues the airship in vain and meets Mavis, an adult vampire who suffers from acute short-term memory loss, who offers her help. The two encounter three malevolent dragons who've sworn to abstain from eating people. Dracula discovers a hunter's face mask that fell from the airship; he accidentally hits Mavis with it, giving her a nosebleed. The scent sends one of the malevolent dragons into a feeding frenzy, but they flee after accidentally setting off a ring of old naval mines, which knock Drac and Mavis unconscious.

Dennis is placed in a prison in the office of supervisor Vic Hoskins in Jurassic World, Canada. He meets the "Prison Gang", including yellow bird Chuck, Regal Snake Pokémon Serperior, plumber jumpman Mario, alligator Louis, Electric Mouse Pokémon Detective Pikachu, and two Frankenstein's women Eunice and Frankie Stein, led by Mufasa, an African lion. Dennis learns he is to be given to Hoskins's niece, Bo, who has killed her previous hornbill. Mufasa devises a risky escape plan: Dennis, who can fit inside the prison's air vent, will jam the vent with a rock, forcing Hoskins to put the prisoners into trash cans while he cleans the prison, giving them the opportunity to roll out the window and into the street. Dennis attempts the maneuver, but fails and is almost killed.

Drac and Mavis wake up unharmed, but the face mask falls into a dark abyss. They descend after it and encounter a vicious Tyrannosaurus Rex which chases them. Mavis memorizes the address written on the name of the face mask, and they escape. Mavis and Dracula receive directions from Despicable Me minions, but Dracula disregards them to take what he believes is a safer route. They stumble into a herd of snakes, the venomous bites of which knock them unconscious. They awaken in the East Canadian Current with a group of sauropods including Poppa Henry and his son, Arlo. Dracula tells them about his quest, and the story is relayed across the Earth to Canada where a Giant Raven Pokémon, Corviknight, tells the Prison Gang. Inspired by his father's bravery, Dennis makes another attempt to jam the vent and succeeds, and soon the prison is covered in green slime.

Dracula and Mavis exit the East Canadian Current and are consumed by Godzilla. Mavis tries communicating with Godzilla, which expels them through its blowhole like a dolphin at Jurassic World. They meet Corviknight, who helps the pair escape from a swarm of bat cronies and takes them to the supervisor's office. Hoskins has installed a new high-tech vent, foiling the Prison Gang's escape. Bo arrives, but Dennis plays dead to save himself. Corviknight causes a disturbance, terrifying Bo and throwing the office into chaos. Dracula, seeing Dennis's act, believes Dennis is dead. After Hoskins throws Corviknight out (along with Drac and Mavis), Mufasa helps Dennis escape through a pipe that leads to Transylvania.

Despondent, Dracula bids farewell to Mavis and begins his journey home. Drac's departure causes Mavis to lose her memory. Dennis reaches Transylvania and meets Mavis, but she does not remember him. However, her memory returns when she reads the word "Canada" on a ledge of the sewers. Mavis reunites Dennis with Dracula, but a giant helicopter captures her in a net along with a herd of woolly mammoths. With his father's blessing, Dennis enters the net and he and Drac instruct all of the mammoths to push down. Their combined force breaks the helicopter's net, allowing them to escape. Dracula and Dennis reconcile.

After returning home to Hotel Transylvania, Dracula is more confident while Mavis has remained friends with the malevolent dragons. Dracula and Mavis see Dennis off as he goes to school.

At the supervisor's, the vent has broken, and the gang, having been put in trash cans, have escaped into the street. Freed from the cans, they ponder what to do next.

## Finding Mavis

Penny Peterson, the young girl, gets separated from her parents, Cynthia and Cyrus, as a child. As she grows up, Mavis attempts to search for them, but gradually forgets them due to her short-term memory loss. Later, she joins Dracula the vampire, looking for Dennis.

One year after meeting Dracula and Dennis, Mavis is living with them on Hotel Transylvania. One day, Mavis has a flashback and remembers her parents. She decides to look for them, but her memory problem is an obstacle. She suddenly remembers that they lived at the "Universal Studios, Florida" across the land when Dennis mentions the name.

Drac and Dennis accompany Mavis on her journey. With the help of Henry, their green sauropod friend, they ride the Canadian Current to Florida. Upon arrival, they explore a jungle full of lost trucks, where Mavis accidentally awakens a giant Indominus Rex, who pursues them and almost devours Dennis. They manage to kill the Indominus Rex with a Mosasaurus as a cameo appearance, and Dracula berates Mavis for endangering them. Her feelings hurt, Mavis travels to the entrance to seek help where she is captured by security guards from the trio's nearby destination, the Starmer Life Institute.

Mavis is placed in quarantine and tagged. There she meets a grouchy but well-meaning orange striped tiger named Tigger. Mavis's tag marks her for transfer to a museum in Tokyo. Tigger, who fears being released back into the jungle, agrees to help Mavis find her parents in exchange for her tag. In one exhibit, Mavis encounters her childhood friend Ellie, a prehistoric mammoth, who used to communicate with Mavis through the sewers, and Manny, another prehistoric mammoth, who mistakenly believes he has lost his ability to trumpet. Mavis subsequently has flashbacks of life with her parents and struggles to recall details. She finally remembers how she was separated from her parents: she overheard her mother crying one night, left to retrieve a jewel to cheer her up, and was pulled away by a wormhole out into Transylvania.

Dracula and Dennis attempt to rescue Mavis. With the help of a starfish named Patrick and a anthropomorphic sea sponge named SpongeBob and a colorful flightless bird named Kevin, they manage to get into the institute and find her in the sewers. Other vampires tell them that Mavis's parents escaped from the institute a long time ago to search for her and never came back, leaving Mavis to believe that they have died. Tigger retrieves Mavis from the cage, accidentally leaving Drac and Dennis behind. He is then apprehended by one of the poachers and unintentionally drops Mavis into the wormhole, pulling her out to the jungle. While wandering aimlessly, she comes across a trail of jewels; remembering that when she was young, her parents had set out a similar trail to help her find her way back home, she follows it. At the end of the trail, Mavis finds an empty laboratory with multiple jewel trails leading to it. As she turns to leave, her parents arrive. They tell her they spent years laying down the trails for her to follow in the hopes that she would eventually find them.

Dracula, Dennis, and Tigger end up in the prison bus taking various starmers to Tokyo. Ellie and Manny escape from their exhibit to help Mavis rescue them. Once onboard the bus, Mavis persuades Tigger to return to Hotel Transylvania with her, and together, they hijack the bus and drive it over busy highways, creating havoc, before crashing it into the ground, freeing all the starmers. Mavis, along with her parents and new friends, returns to Hotel Transylvania with Dracula and Dennis.

In a post-credits scene, the Prison Gang (from *Finding Dennis*) reach Florida one year after making a journey across the lands, where they are picked up by security guards from the Starmer Life Institute.