Better Than Boiled Asparagus
Kids Will Like Hotel Transylvania! Kids Don't Know Anything.
by Wm. Steven Humphrey
HOTEL TRANSYLVANIA Adam Sandler’s triumphant return to—wait. Never mind. :(
MY CONVERSATION with a seven-year-old kid after exiting Hotel Transylvania:
ME: Soooo... what did you think?
KID: It was good.
ME: Did you think it was funny?
KID: No.
And that is the problem with children. Because of their age, they are basically tasteless—despite adages that tout their "innocent wisdom." They like any movie, because any movie is still better than being told to eat boiled asparagus. However, they do know "funny," and Hotel Transylvania isn't anything like "funny." Nutshell: Dracula (voiced by Adam Sandler) builds a hotel to give monsters a place to relax without human intervention, as well as protecting his vampire daughter (Selena Gomez) from the outside world. A human hippie comes along (Andy Samberg) pretending to be a monster, but falls in love with the daughter while teaching the other monsters that humans aren't so bad, and—DO YOU SEE WHERE THIS IS GOING? While this CGI flick has a pretty good pedigree (directed by The Powerpuff Girls' Genndy Tartakovsky, with a screenplay co-written by SNL's Robert Smigel), Hotel Transylvania inspired yet another kid sitting near me to opine, "I want to go home now." Ah, the wisdom of children.
2012 | 95 minutes | Rated PG
Director: Genndy Tartakovsky
Producer: Michelle Murdocca, Adam Sandler, Robert Smigel and Allen Covert
Cast: Adam Sandler, Andy Samberg, Selena Gomez, Kevin James, Fran Drescher, Steve Buscemi, Molly Shannon, David Spade, Cee Lo Green, Jon Lovitz, Brian George, Luenell, Brian Stack and Chris Parnell
2012 | 95 minutes | Rated PG
Director: Genndy Tartakovsky
Producer: Michelle Murdocca, Adam Sandler, Robert Smigel and Allen Covert
Cast: Adam Sandler, Andy Samberg, Selena Gomez, Kevin James, Fran Drescher, Steve Buscemi, Molly Shannon, David Spade, Cee Lo Green, Jon Lovitz, Brian George, Luenell, Brian Stack and Chris Parnell
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