Hotel Transylvania is a 2012 American computer-animated monster comedy film produced by Columbia Pictures and Sony Pictures Animation. The first installment in the Hotel Transylvania franchise, it was directed by Genndy Tartakovsky (in his directorial debut) from a screenplay by Peter Baynham and Robert Smigel and a story by Todd Durham, Dan Hageman, and Kevin Hageman. The film 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 the 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 beloved daughter Mavis. When the "human-free hotel" is unexpectedly visited by an ordinary 21-year-old traveler named Jonathan, Drac must do everything in his power to prevent Mavis from falling in love with him before the hotel's guests learn a human is in the castle, which may jeopardize the hotel's future and his career.
The film was released on September 28, 2012 by Sony Pictures Releasing. It earned a total of $358 million worldwide at the box office against a budget of $85 million and was nominated for a Golden Globe Award for Best Animated Feature Film. The success of Hotel Transylvania launched a multimedia franchise and a series of three sequels, starting with Hotel Transylvania 2 (2015).
Plot[]
In 1895, after the death of his wife Martha at the hands of an angry human mob, Count Dracula commissions and builds a massive 5-star, monsters-only hotel in Transylvania, in which he raises his daughter Mavis. The hotel also serves as a safe haven and a getaway for the world's monsters from fear of human persecution. Famous monsters such as Frankenstein and his wife Eunice, Wayne and Wanda Werewolf and their massive immediate family, Griffin the Invisible Man, and Murray the Mummy often come to stay at the hotel.
In the present day, on Mavis' 118th birthday, Dracula allows his daughter to leave the castle 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[8] human Jonathan "Johnny" Loughran back to the hotel. Drac frantically disguises him as a Frankensteinesque monster and passes him off as Frank's cousin "Johnnystein". Jonathan soon encounters Mavis and the two "Zing". Unable to get Johnny out of the hotel without notice, Drac 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 Drac. Drac orders Johnny to leave, but he is brought back by Mavis. After being shown the beauty of a sunrise by Johnny, Mavis is inspired to give humans another chance.
Meanwhile, the hotel chef Quasimodo, with the help of his pet rat Esmeralda, learns that Johnny is a human and kidnaps him to cook him. Drac intervenes and magically freezes Quasimodo to keep him from telling anyone that Johnny is human. Drac leads Johnny to his quarters and shows him a painting of Martha, allowing Johnny to realize why Drac built the hotel and became overprotective of Mavis. Johnny then agrees to leave for good, but Drac persuades him to stay for the time being to avoid ruining Mavis's birthday.
The party is a great success the next night, and Mavis looks forward to opening a gift from Martha. However, when Johnny and Mavis share their first kiss, Drac overreacts, and in his outburst, inadvertently confesses to deceiving Mavis with the town. A still-frozen Quasimodo bursts in and Mr. Fly reveals from his frozen speech that Johnny is a human disguised by Drac. The guests are shocked outraged by the deceit at play, but Mavis is undeterred and wants to be with Johnny. Johnny feigns uninterest in Mavis and rejects her out of respect for her father and leaves the hotel.
A heartbroken Mavis flies onto the roof with her mother's gift, and Drac follows her in hopes of comforting her. He learns the present is a book about how Drac and Martha "Zinged" and fell in love. Drac realizes he no longer knows humankind's true tolerance of monsters. After apologizing to the patrons, Drac persuades Frank, Wayne, Griffin, and Murray to head out into the human world to help him find Johnny, and with the scent-tracking ability of Wayne's daughter, Winnie, they learn that he is about to catch a flight back to the United States.
The four head to the airport, but are held up in a town celebrating a Monster Festival along the way. Admiring the group, the humans agree to help, and a team of men dressed as vampires provides Drac shelter from the sunlight while he rushes to the airport. Drac arrives to see Johnny's plane taking off, and he gives chase in bat form, burning in the sunlight. After getting Johnny's attention, Drac makes his way to the windshield of the plane and uses his mind-controlling power on the pilot to help him apologize, stating that Mavis has grown up and can make her own decisions. Johnny accepts his apology, and Drac manipulates the pilot to return to the Transylvanian airport.
Drac returns Johnny to Mavis, announcing that he approves of Johnny. Johnny confesses to Mavis that their "Zing" was mutual and the two kiss. The monsters finish celebrating Mavis' party, impressing the hotel guests.
End Credits: During the End Crawl Arts of Hotel Transylvania, They Were Concept Arts on the End Credits, the Concept Arts of Hotel Transylvania were Done by Neil C. Ross, Ron Lukas, & Noelle Triaureau.
Cast[]
- Main article: List of Hotel Transylvania characters
- Adam Sandler as Count "Drac" Dracula: a vampire and the owner of the hotel and Mavis' overprotective father
- Andy Samberg as Jonathan "Johnny" Loughran: Mavis' love interest.
- Selena Gomez as Mavis Dracula: daughter of Count Dracula and late Martha.
- Sadie Sandler as young Mavis Dracula and also plays Winnie
- Kevin James as Frankenstein: 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 one of Dracula's best friends and Wanda's husband.[8]
- CeeLo Green as Murray: a short, fat mummy who is one of Dracula's best friends and mostly hangs out with Frankenstein.[9] He is later voiced by Keegan-Michael Key in the next three films.
- Fran Drescher as Eunice: Frankenstein's wife and Wanda's best friend.[8]
- Molly Shannon as Wanda: a female werewolf, Wayne's heavily pregnant wife and Eunice's best friend.[8]
- David Spade as Griffin the Invisible Man: a ghost and one of Dracula's best friends.[9]
- Jon Lovitz as Quasimodo Wilson: a hunchbacked gourmet chef and the former bell-ringer of Notre Dame who desires to make a dish with human as the main ingredient.[8][10]
- Jim Wise and Luenell as the shrunken heads that serve as a "Do Not Disturb" sign on the door of Mavis's room.[11]
- Chris Parnell as Mr. Fly: Hotel Transylvania's fitness coordinator who can also translate any speech.
- Brian George as a suit of armor who acts as the head of Hotel Transylvania's security guards.
- Brian Stack as a pilot who flies Jonathan's airplane back to America.
- Jackie Sandler as Martha: Dracula's wife and Mavis' mother who was killed by an angry mob when Mavis was an infant.
- Rob Riggle as Skeleton Husband
- Paul Brittain as Mr. Ghouligan: a zombie plumber.
- Brian McCann as a hairy monster that resembles a Yeti.
The heads of the Hydra named Mr. Hydraberg are voiced by Jim Wise, Paul Brittain, Jonny Solomon, Craig Kellman, and Brian McCann.
Production[]
Director Genndy Tartakovsky presented a few scenes from the film at the 2012 Annecy International Animated Film Festival.[12][13]
Hotel Transylvania was originally created and developed by comedy writer Todd Durham, which he based on his book of the same name; after creating the bible for a franchise of several films, television series, video games, books, merchandising, hotel chain, and theme parks, he took the package unsolicited to Columbia Pictures and set it up at Sony Pictures Animation where he became the first of several screenwriters on the project.[14][15][16]
The development process ultimately went through six directors; in 2006, Anthony Stacchi and David Feiss became the first directors set to helm the film.[17] They were replaced by Jill Culton in 2008,[18] who was followed by Chris Jenkins,[19] with Todd Wilderman in 2010.[20] In February 2011,[21] Genndy Tartakovsky, creator of Dexter's Laboratory and Samurai Jack, took over as the sixth scheduled director,[22] and made his feature directorial debut with the film.[8][20] He reimagined the film to follow the energy, organic nature, and exaggeration of 2D animation, particularly as seen in the work of director Tex Avery.[23] "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."[22] "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."[24]
In November 2011, Miley Cyrus was announced to voice Mavis, Dracula's teenaged daughter,[9][25] but in February 2012, she was removed from the film. In August 2019, Cyrus admitted it was because of buying then-partner Liam Hemsworth a birthday cake in the shape of a penis and licking it.[26] It was later announced that Selena Gomez would replace Cyrus.[27] According to Tartakovsky his favorite Dracula was Bela Lugosi, especially in the context of Abbott and Costello. As a kid he really did not like horror movies, so he never really watched them. So he got introduced to all those characters through comedy, and so it was Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein and Meet the Mummy, etc. As Tartakovsky said [in relation to making Hotel Transylvania]: "I don't want to scare anybody. I just want to make them laugh with these iconic characters."[28]
Music[]
The soundtrack for the film includes popular songs by Traci L., Becky G, will.i.am, Britney Spears, LMFAO, Peter Tvrznik, and Bobby Pickett. In addition, several original songs were written for the film by Adam Sandler, Robert Smigel, and Dennis White:[29]
| No. | Title | Performer(s) | Length |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | "Hush Little Baby" | Adam Sandler | |
| 2. | "Daddy's Girl" | Adam Sandler | |
| 3. | "Where Did the Time Go Girl" | Kevin James, CeeLo Green, Steve Buscemi & David Spade | |
| 4. | "Sweet 118" | Andy Samberg | |
| 5. | "The Zing" | Andy Samberg, Selena Gomez, CeeLo Green, Adam Sandler & Kevin James |
Release[]
Hotel Transylvania premiered on September 8, 2012, at the Toronto International Film Festival.[6] The film received a wide release on September 28, 2012.[2] On October 26, 2012, Regal Entertainment Group Cinemas began exclusively playing the traditionally animated short film Goodnight Mr. Foot before the film. Based on Hotel Transylvania, the short was directed and animated by Genndy Tartakovsky.[30]
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.[31]
Reception[]
Box office[]
Hotel Transylvania earned $148.3 million in North America, and $210.1 million in other countries, for a worldwide total of $358.4 million.[7] The officially reported budget for the film was $85 million,[7] although Deadline Hollywood claimed that the film actually cost $104 million.[32] For the film's marketing, Sony spent $52.1 million in the United States, and $31 million in other countries.[33]
Hotel Transylvania topped the box office with $11 million on its first Friday, and $42.5 million domestically and $50.6 million worldwide for its opening weekend, which at the time of its release broke the record for the largest-grossing September opening,[32] a record which was overtaken by its sequel Hotel Transylvania 2 in 2015, with a weekend gross of $48.5 million.[34] The film also earned the highest-grossing domestic debut for Sony Pictures Animation (also later overtaken by Hotel Transylvania 2).[34][35] According to Sony's president of worldwide distribution, Rory Bruer, Sony was very satisfied with the film's performance, which was "beyond anyone's imagination, and the holds are ridiculous. It exceeds expectations in every new market it opens in."[36] Hotel Transylvania was theatrically released in China on October 28, 2013,[37] more than a year after the worldwide premiere, and contributed $11,180,000 to the overall gross.[38]
Critical response[]
On the review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes, 44% of 5.40 critics gave the film a positive review, with an average rating of 145/10. The website'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."[39] Using a weighted average calculator, Metacritic assigned the film a score of Hotel Transylvania out of 100, based on mixed or average reviews critics, indicating Error: Unrecognized metascore. Please use a number between 0 and 100.[40] Audiences polled by CinemaScore gave the film an average grade of "A–" on an A+ to F scale.[41]
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."[42]
Accolades[]
| Award | Category | Recipient | Result |
|---|---|---|---|
| Annie Awards[43][44] | 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[45] | Best Animated Feature Film | Genndy Tartakovsky | |
| Visual Effects Society[46][47] | 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[48] | Favorite Voice from an Animated Movie | Adam Sandler (as Dracula) | Won |
Sequel[]
- Main article: Hotel Transylvania 2
The sequel, titled Hotel Transylvania 2, was released on September 25, 2015.[49] Its story takes place seven years after the first film, with the hotel now open to human guests, and its owner, Count Dracula, being more preoccupied with the fact that his 5-year-old grandson is not a pure-blood vampire.[50] The original crew and cast returned for the film, except CeeLo Green as the role of Murray, who was replaced by Keegan-Michael Key. New additions include Mel Brooks as Dracula's father, Vlad;[51] Nick Offerman and Megan Mullally as Jonathan's parents, Mike and Linda;[52] and Asher Blinkoff as Mavis and Johnny's half-human/half-vampire son, Dennis.[53]
See also[]
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- List of films featuring Frankenstein's monster
- Vampire film
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