A quick summer getaway, but this time it’s not just your favorite monsters, there is so much more!
As directed by Gennedy Tartakovsky, this family friendly comedy is a sequel of the renowned Hotel Transylvania series and was surely one of the most anticipated movies of the year. The movie offers a maniac alternative to the relatively grounded, emotional storytelling of Pixar. Gennedy’s world of monsters is completely pliable to wild gesticulations, and frequent outbursts that never fails to make us laugh out loud. Everything they do is huge, even though their stories are usually the thinnest possible excuse to get them out of the house, or you know, the Hotel.
This time, HOTEL TRANSYLVANIA 3: Summer Vacation offers the viewers with another Transylvanian adventure booming with colors and silliness; and is once again voiced by Adam Sandler as Count Dracula, a vampire who is the owner of a lavish hideaway for monsters, so they can escape their constant persecution by humanity, followed by his half-human daughter, Mavis (Selena Gomez), and her ‘happy go crazy’ family on a luxury monster cruise vacation around the Bermuda Triangle, destined for Atlantis. Even though there is a bit more fighting and some ugly trolls compared to the previous two series; much of it is comic with a few tense chases, crashes and confrontations, including a long sequence involving an enormous sea-monster rampage.
The story continues as Mavis surprises Dracula with a family voyage on a luxury Cruise Ship so he can take a vacation from providing everyone else’s vacation at the Hotel. The rest of Drac’s Pack cannot refrain but tag along as well and once they leave port, romance “zings” Drac on board when he falls for the mysterious ship leader-Captain Erika (Kathryn Hahn). Now we have to see how Mavis plays her role as an over-protective parent, trying to keep her dad and Erika apart. Little do they know that his “too good to be true” love interest is actually a descendent of the infamous Professor Van Helsing’s clan of vampire hunters; arch enemy to Dracula and rest of the monsters!
Although the humor felt forced at times, yet it cannot be denied that the graphics and animation was fantastic. Furthermore, the movie truly left us with a very positive message of embracing the diversity of life, letting go of your grudges, believing in the power of love and focuses on the importance of parents reconnecting as more as partners, not just as co-parents. As for me, I feel it’s not a movie I would run out to the theatres for but it definitely is a ‘summer treat’ worth savouring with your dearest ones and you don’t want to miss out on that, I suppose?
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Ohana Azrin Hoque
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