Hotel Transylvania 2 review

There are two running gags in Hotel Transylvania 2, and both are not directed at the children. One deals with overprotective parents, the other with over political correctness. Unfortunately, they are also the only two gags that work in this excitable, frenetic film, apparently about finding one’s own true self, that can’t even let that line be said without some activity in the background.

Dracula’s (Adam Sandler) daughter Mavis (Selena Gomez) and Johnny (Samberg) get married, get pregnant and have a child within the first couple of minutes into this sequel to the mildly successful Hotel Transylvania.

The human Johnny’s parents make their appearance but it’s a largely unremarked upon event at the hotel full of monsters. It’s when the baby, Dennis, starts growing and Dracula (only called ‘Drac’) keenly begins the wait for signs of vampire-hood in him that this animation film kicks in.

 Dracula ignores Mavis’s appeals to let Dennis be, as he looks for fangs, drops him down heights to see if he can fly, sings him lullabies full of horrors, and frowns upon the TV version of lovable monsters that the boy watches at bedtime. However, Tartakovsky’s film doesn’t have the patience to let any strand play out, and the other monsters and their antics keep interrupting.

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