Hotel Transylvania 3D

No surprises or major laughs here, but as far as Sandler family fare goes, it's inoffensive enough. Full Review

The cutest darn thing in Hotel Transylvania is the way Count Dracula spazzes into a brilliant red devil-face when provoked. The second-cutest thing is his annoyed response to being misquoted by idiot humans. Full Review

There are some crowd-pleasers - but Hotel Transylvania never becomes the great monster mash that seemed in the offing. Full Review

While it's an energetic romp, there is more slapstick humor than wit at work here, and a good deal of borrowing from the far more clever "Monsters, Inc." Full Review

So why does this animated kids' film fail to come together? Bursts of manic pacing steamroll over most of the wit, a little of Sandler's thick-accent shtick goes a looong way, and by the time the requisite life lessons about letting your offspring leave the nest get rolled out, the undead-on-arrival jokes are outnumbered by anemic sitcom gags. Full Review