Dracula is up to his very old vampire tricks in “Hotel Transylvania: Transformania,” the latest, somewhat dim iteration in the computer-generated “Hotel Transylvania” series that began in 2012.
Adam Sandler and Sony Pictures Animation parted ways for reasons unknown before the making of this fourth in the series.
We get mosquito jokes, piranha jokes and a toasted marshmallow bit. Anything gooey or slimy is funny fodder. It’s gratifying that the Dracula in these “Hotel Transylvania” films has been based on the character played, and in fact created by, the, yes, hypnotic Bela Lugosi in the 1931 Todd Browning landmark “Dracula.” The Universal horror film classics of the 1930s remain a rite-of-passage for kids everywhere.
Like many films aimed at children, “Hotel Transylvania: Transformania” has a lesson, too. It is “not to see the worst in things, but to see the good.” I take it this effort is Exhibit A.
(“Hotel Transylvania: Transformania” contains perilous action, rude humor and something called “cartoon nudity.”)
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