Taglines: Where monsters go to get away from it all.
In 1895, in the aftermath of the death of his wife Martha “Jackie Sandler” at the hands of an angry human mob, Count Dracula “Adam Sandler” commissions and builds a massive five-star, monsters-only hotel in Transylvania in which he raises his daughter Mavis “Selena Gomez” and to serve as a safe-place getaway for the world’s monsters from fear of human persecution. Famous monsters such as Frank “Kevin James” and his wife Eunice “Fran Drescher”, Wayne and Wanda Werewolf “Steve Buscemi and Molly Shannon” and their massive immediate family, Griffin The Invisible Man “David Spade”, and Murray the Mummy “CeeLo Green” often come to stay at the hotel.
In the present day, on Mavis’s 118th birthday, Dracula allows his daughter to leave the castle in order to explore the human world, but he sets up an elaborate plan using his zombie bellhops disguised as humans to make them seem intimidating, and frighten her home. The plan works, but the zombies inadvertently lead a 21-year-old human Jonathan Loughran “Andy Samberg” back to the hotel. Dracula frantically disguises him as a Frankensteinesque Monster and passes him off as Frank’s cousin “Johnnystein”.
Johnny soon encounters Mavis and the two “Zing”, in a form of romantic attraction. Unable to get Johnny out of the hotel without notice, Dracula quickly improvises that Johnny is a party planner, brought in to bring a fresher approach to his own traditional and boring parties. Johnny quickly becomes a hit to the other monsters, but this disgusts and worries Dracula greatly. Dracula orders Johnny to leave, but Johnny is brought back by Mavis. After being shown the beauty of a sunrise by Johnny, Mavis is inspired to give humans another chance.
Hotel Transylvania is a 2012 American 3D computer-animated comedy film directed by Genndy Tartakovsky, produced by Columbia Pictures and Sony Pictures Animation, and distributed by Sony Pictures Releasing. The film, which was written by Peter Baynham and Robert Smigel from a story by Todd Durham, Daniel Hageman and Kevin Hageman, stars the voices of Adam Sandler, Andy Samberg, Selena Gomez, Kevin James, Fran Drescher, Steve Buscemi, Molly Shannon, David Spade, and CeeLo Green.
The film tells a story of Count Dracula, the owner of a hotel called Hotel Transylvania where the world’s monsters can take a rest from human civilization. Dracula invites some of the most famous monsters to celebrate the 118th birthday of his daughter Mavis. When the “human-free hotel” is unexpectedly visited by an ordinary 21-year-old traveler named Jonathan, Dracula must protect Mavis from falling in love with him before the hotel’s guests learn that there is a human in the castle, which may jeopardize the hotel’s future and his career.
The film was released on September 28, 2012, and was met with mixed critical reception, while the general public received it favorably. It earned a total of $358 million worldwide against a budget of $85 million at the box office, and was nominated for a Golden Globe Award for Best Animated Feature Film. It launched a franchise with a sequel titled Hotel Transylvania 2, which takes place seven years after the first film,[9] released in 2015, and a third film titled Hotel Transylvania 3: Summer Vacation released in 2018. A television series based on the film premiered on Disney Channel in June 2017, focusing on the teenage years of Mavis and her friends at the Hotel Transylvania.
Hotel Transylvania (2012)
Directed by: Genndy Tartakovsky
Starring: Adam Sandler, Andy Samberg, Selena Gomez, Kevin James, Fran Drescher, Steve Buscemi, Molly Shannon, David Spade, CeeLo Green, Brian George, Jackie Sandler, Chris Parnell
Screenplay by: Peter Baynham, Robert Smigel
Production Design by: Marcelo Vignali
Film Editing by: Catherine Apple
Art Direction by: Ron Lukas, Noëlle Triaureau
Music by: Mark Mothersbaugh
MPAA Rating: PG for some rude humor, action and scary images.
Distributed by: Sony Pictures
Release Date: September 28, 2012
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