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Hotel Transylvania

Hotel Transylvania

Hotel Transylvania is a 2012 American 3D computer animated fantasy comedy film produced by Sony Pictures Animation. It was directed by Genndy Tartakovsky (the creator of Samurai Jack, Dexter's Laboratory and Sym-Bionic Titan), and produced by Michelle Murdocca. The film features 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 "non-human 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 there is a human in the castle, which may jeopardize the hotel's future.
The film was released on September 28, 2012, by Columbia Pictures. It was met with mixed critical reception from critics, while the general public received it favorably. Despite mixed reviews, Hotel Transylvania earned a total of $358 million on a budget of $85 million. The film was nominated for a Golden Globe Award for Best Animated Feature Film. Its sequel Hotel Transylvania 2 was released on September 25, 2015.

Plot 

In the aftermath of the death of Dracula's wife Martha (Jackie Sandler) at the hands of an angry mob, Count Dracula (Adam Sandler) designs and builds a massive five-star hotel in which to raise his daughter Mavis (Selena Gomez) and to serve as a getaway for all the world's monsters.
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 which is completely human-free and safe for monsters.
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 lure a 21-year-old human named Jonathan (Andy Samberg) to the hotel. Dracula frantically disguises him as a Flesh Golem and passes him off as "Johnnystein", a distant cousin of Frank's right arm. Jonathan soon encounters Mavis and the two "Zing" (a form of magical attraction). Unable to get Johnny out of the hotel without notice, Drac quickly improvises that Jonathan is a party planner, brought in to bring a fresher approach to his own traditional and boring parties. Jonathan quickly becomes a hit to the other monsters, especially Mavis and even begins to gain Dracula's respect. Dracula then tells Jonathan about his previous experience with humans and resulting hatred for them. Much to Dracula's surprise, Jonathan shows understanding and knowledge of the vampire lore.
Johnny attempts to leave after his confession on Dracula's orders, but is brought back by Mavis. After showing her the beauty of a sunrise, she is re-inspired to give humans another chance. Meanwhile, Quasimodo (Jon Lovitz) learns that Johnny is a human with his female pet rat Esmeralda's help and kidnaps him in order to cook him. Dracula intervenes and magically freezes Quasimodo to keep him from telling anyone that Jonathan is human. The party is a great success the next night. But when Jonathan and Mavis share their first kiss, Dracula overreacts and in his outburst confesses to deceiving Mavis with the town. A still-frozen Quasimodo bursts in and the Fly (Chris Parnell) translates his frozen language that reveals Johnny's humanity causing overwhelmingly negative reactions from the guests. Mavis is undeterred by her attraction and wants to be with Johnny even though he is human, but Jonathan rejects her out of respect for her father and leaves the hotel. Mavis then angrily yells at Dracula and flies off. Dracula arrives to comfort Mavis on the roof looking at the present her mother gave her for her birthday and finds out that it is a book about how her mother and Dracula had a Zing. Dracula then realizes that Mavis and Jonathan had a Zing, but he got in the way.
After apologizing to the monsters that are trying to check out and confessing that even he does not know if humans have changed, Dracula manages to convince Frank, Wayne, Griffin, and Murray to help him find Jonathan, and they learn that he is bound on a flight out of Transylvania soon. They head to the airport and encounter a Monster Festival along the way. Instead of being frightened by the real monsters appearing, the humans help Dracula by providing him shelter from the sunlight so he can get to the airport quickly, only to see Jonathan's plane taking off. Deciding to take the risk, Dracula gives chase, burning in the sunlight. After getting Jonathan's attention, Dracula makes his way to the front of the plane and uses his mind-controlling power on the pilot (Brian Stack) to help him apologize for his actions. Jonathan accepts his apology; then Dracula manipulates the pilot to return to the Transylvanian airport for a "refuel".
Dracula returns Jonathan to Mavis, who confesses that their Zing was mutual and the two kiss, making Dracula realize his little girl is all grown up and can make her own decisions. The monsters finish celebrating Mavis's party as Dracula, Mavis, Jonathan, Frank, Eunice, Murray, Wayne, Wanda and Griffin sing "The Zing" in front of the other monsters.


Voice cast 

  • Andy Samberg as Jonathan ("Johnnystein"), a 21-year-old human who stumbles onto Hotel Transylvania.
  • Selena Gomez as Mavis, Dracula's 118-year-old "teenage" vampire daughter who likes humans and falls in love with Johnny.
    • Sadie Sandler voices Mavis as a child, as well as Wayne's daughter Winnie.
  • Kevin James as Frank/Frankenstein, Eunice's husband and one of Dracula's best friends who acts as an uncle to Mavis and mostly hangs out with Murray.
  • Steve Buscemi as Wayne, a male werewolf who is also one of Dracula's best friends and the husband of Wanda.
  • CeeLo Green as Murray the Mummy, a short fat mummy who is one of Dracula's best friends and mostly hangs out with Frankenstein.
  • Chris Parnell as Mr. Fly, Hotel Transylvania's fitness coordinator who can also understand "frozen" languages.
  • Brian Stack as Pilot, the pilot of Jonathan's airplane.
  • Robert Smigel as Fake Dracula, an attendee at a Transylvanian festival.
    • Robert Smigel also voices Marty, a pink Gill-man at Hotel Transylvania.
  • Jonny Solomon as Gremlin Man, one of the Gremlins at Hotel Transylvania.
    • Jonny Solomon also voices one of the Hydra Heads.
  • Craig Kellman as Guy in Crowd, a guy who shouts in the crowd at the festival.
    • Craig Kellman also voices one of the Hydra Heads.
  • Brian McCann as Hairy Monster, a monster that almost resembles a Yeti.
    • Brian McCann also voices one of the Hydra Heads.
  • James C. J. Williams as a Construction Foreman, a deformed humanoid who helped to build Hotel Transylvania. 

Production 

Hotel Transylvania was in development since 2006, when Anthony Stacchi and David Feiss were set to direct the film. In 2008, Jill Culton took over the directing position, and around 2010, Chris Jenkins, with Todd Wilderman. In February 2011, Genndy Tartakovsky took over as the sixth director to direct his feature directorial debut.

Director Genndy Tartakovsky presented a few scenes from the film at the 2012 Annecy International Animated Film Festival.
In less than a year, Tartakovsky rewrote the script with the help of "the Sandler camp's multiple notes" and reimagined the film to follow the energy, organicity and exaggeration of 2D animation, particularly as seen in the work of director Tex Avery. "I took all the aesthetics I like from 2-D and applied them here," Tartakovsky said. "I don't want to do animation to mimic reality. I want to push reality." "I wanted to have an imprint so you'd go, 'Well, only Genndy can make this.' It's hard, especially with CG, but I feel there's a lot of moments that feel that they're very me, so hopefully it'll feel different enough that it has a signature to it."
In November 2011, it was announced that Miley Cyrus would voice Mavis, Dracula's teenage daughter, but in February 2012, Cyrus left the film. It was later announced that Selena Gomez would replace Cyrus.


Music 


Release

Hotel Transylvania premiered on September 8, 2012, at the Toronto International Film Festival. Distributed by Columbia Pictures, the film received a wide release on September 28, 2012. Since October 26, 2012, the film's showings in Regal Entertainment Group Cinemas have been exclusively accompanied by a new traditionally animated short film, Goodnight Mr. Foot. Based on Hotel Transylvania, the short was directed and animated by Genndy Tartakovsky.

Home media

Hotel Transylvania was released on Blu-ray (2D and 3D) and DVD on January 29, 2013. It was accompanied by the short animated film, Goodnight Mr. Foot.

Reception

Critical response

Hotel Transylvania received mixed reviews from critics, praising the direction and animation, but criticizing its script. Review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes reports that 44% of critics gave the film positive reviews, with an average rating of 5.3/10 based on 140 reviews. The site's critical consensus reads: "Hotel Transylvania‍ '​s buoyant, giddy tone may please children, but it might be a little too loud and thinly-scripted for older audiences." Another review aggregate, Metacritic, calculated an average score of 47 out of 100, based on 32 reviews. CinemaScore polls conducted during the opening weekend revealed that the average grade cinemagoers gave Hotel Transylvania was an A- on an A+ to F scale.
IGN editor Geoff Chapman rated the film 9 out of 10 and wrote "This is a fun film, full of quirky gags and lovable characters. There are a few songs that smack a bit like soundtrack marketing for the kids, and the story is of course fairly predictable, but this movie is about enjoying a fun journey with great characters. It's a romp that kids and families will all enjoy. Hotel Transylvania is definitely somewhere you'll want to check in."

Box office

Hotel Transylvania earned $148,313,048 in North America, and $210,062,555 million in other countries, for a worldwide total of $358,375,603. Officially reported budget for the film was $85 million, although Deadline.com claimed that the film actually cost $104 million. For the film's marketing, Sony spent $52.1 million in the United States, and $31 million in other countries.
It topped the box office with $11 million on Friday, and $42.5 million domestically and $50.6 million worldwide for the weekend, which at the time of its release broke the record for the largest-grossing September opening ever, which was overtaken by its successor Hotel Transylvania 2 in 2015, it also earned the highest-grossing domestic debut for Sony Pictures Animation, (later overtaken by Hotel Transylvania 2's $48.5 million opening). According to the Sony's president of worldwide distribution Rory Bruer, Sony was very satisfied with the film's performance, which performed "beyond anyone's imagination, and the holds are ridiculous. It exceeds expectations in every new market it opens in." Hotel Transylvania was theatrically released in China on October 28, 2013, more than a year after the worldwide premiere, and contributed $11,180,000 to the overall gross. 
 

Accolades

Award
Category
Recipient
Result







Annie Awards
Best Animated Feature













Nominated
Character Design in an Animated Feature Production
Carlos Grangel
Carter Goodrich
Directing in an Animated Feature Production

Genndy Tartakovsky
Music in an Animated Feature Production
Mark Mothersbaugh
Production Design in an Animated Feature Production

Marcello Vignali
Voice Acting in an Animated Feature Production

Adam Sandler
Editorial in an Animated Feature Production
Catherine Apple
Golden Globe Awards
Best Animated Feature Film
Genndy Tartakovsky



Visual Effects Society
Outstanding Animation in an Animated Feature Motion Picture
Lydia Bottegoni, James Crossley, Mike Ford, Daniel Kramer
Outstanding Animated Character in an Animated Feature Motion Picture
Bill Haller, Tim Pixton, Jorge Vigara (for Dracula)
Kid's Choice Awards
Favorite Voice from an Animated Movie
Adam Sandler (as Dracula)
Won




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