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Hotel Transylvania 3: Summer Vacation
2018 97 min United States of America PG 18+
★6.4
Animation, Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Director: Genndy Tartakovsky
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Description
Dracula, Mavis, Johnny and the rest of the Drac Pack take a vacation on a luxury Monster Cruise Ship, where Dracula falls in love with the ship’s captain, Ericka, who’s secretly a descendant of Abraham Van Helsing, the notorious monster slayer.
Budget:
$80M
US Gross:
$167.51M
Worldwide:
$528.6M
Starring
Adam Sandler
Actor
Andy Samberg
Actor
Selena Gomez
Actor
Awards
2 wins & 9 nominations total
Key opinion
Hotel Transylvania 3: Summer Vacation is widely seen as a technically vibrant but creatively depleted installment that prioritizes slapstick humor over the heart and narrative depth of its predecessors. While many appreciate its capacity to entertain younger audiences and maintain visual flair, older viewers and series fans frequently express disappointment in its reliance on recycled tropes and the perceived degradation of established characters.
| Direction | Genndy Tartakovsky's direction provides impressive, high-energy animation and strong visual gags that maintain the film's kinetic style. | |
| Screenplay | The screenplay relies heavily on predictable tropes, thin plot mechanics, and a repetitive narrative structure that discards the thematic substance of earlier films. | |
| Humor | The humor is deeply divisive, with many viewers finding it childish, overly reliant on crude toilet jokes, and off-putting, while others find the slapstick antics effectively funny for younger audiences. | |
| Acting | Character development is criticized for reducing the lead monsters to caricatures and stripping them of the specific personality traits and authoritative weight they held in previous entries. | |
| Accessibility | The film is a successful, lightweight piece of family entertainment that achieves its goal of amusing children, even if it fails to engage adult fans of the original. |