"We're not everybody! We're scary monsters, remember?"
Hotel Transylvania is now a popular destination for humans and monsters. Count Dracula's (Sandler) beloved daughter Mavis (Gomez) is married to human Jonathan (Samberg), and they have a son Dennis (Blinkoff). Dennis looks like his father and doesn't have fangs, but Drac is convinced that his grandson is a vampire. Dennis' 5th birthday is approaching, and if he doesn't have fangs by then, he never will. Mavis wants to give Dennis a normal life and starts thinking about life away from the hotel.
Drac and Jonathan devise a plan: Jonathan and Mavis will visit his parents (Offerman and Mullally) in California while Drac works on getting Dennis' fangs to grow. Drac enlists the help of his monster friends: Frankenstein's monster Frank (James), Wayne (Buscemi) the werewolf, Murray (Key) the mummy, Griffin (Spade) the invisible man, and Blobby (Jonny Solomon). They set out on a road trip to all their old haunts to show Dennis what it means to be a monster. With Drac's father, Vlad (Brooks) coming to visit, can they get Dennis' fangs to grow?
The sequel to 2012's Hotel Transylvania, reunites the iconic monsters for another round of fun. Robert Smigel returned as the writer and Genndy Tartakovsky returned as the director. Most of the main cast returned for the sequel, with Keegan-Michael Key replacing Cee Lo Green as Murray.
Like the the first film, this film is dominated by the male characters. Selena Gomez's Mavis is the only female character that gets much of a story. The new characters each get a moment, but the film focuses more on the characters you already know. Nick Offerman and Megan Mullally are great as Jonathan's parents, who are very similar to characters each has played before (Offerman as the deadpan dad and Mullally as the talkative mother). Asher Blinkoff is precious as Dennis, as is Adam Sandler's daughter Sadie Sandler as Winnie. Mel Brooks is awesome as Drac's father Vlad (as in Vlad the Impaler), and Rob Riggle is menacing as Bela (as an homage to Bela Lugosi). Key is good as Murray. And like in most of Sandler's films, other SNL alum pop up in cameos.
A decent film, very similar to the first film. Like the first film, this film ends with a dance party (this time it is set to the catchy song "I'm in Love with a Monster).
They are planning to make a third film, to be released in 2018.
Hotel Transylvania 2 (2015) 89 minutes
Director: Genndy Tartakovsky
Starring: Adam Sandler as Count Dracula
Andy Samberg as Jonathan
Selena Gomez as Mavis
Asher Blinkoff as Dennis
Kevin James as Frank
Steve Buscemi as Wayne
David Spade as Griffin
Keegan-Michael Key as Murray
Mel Brooks as Vlad
Fran Drescher as Eunice
Molly Shannon as Wanda
Nick Offerman as Mike
Megan Mullally as Linda
Rob Riggle as Bela
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