Hotel Transylvania

[Smashmatt]

Hotel Transylvania, coming to theaters September 28!

So, as seen in this trailer, Mavis (played by Selena Gomez), the daughter of Dracula, played by Adam Sandler-

NO WAIT, DON'T GO, LET ME FINISH!!!

...Right, so anyway, Dracula owns this five-star resort for monsters, and since it's his daughter's 118th birthday, he invites the who's who of the monster world to her birthday party. However, one unexpected guest shows up... A human traveler named Johnathan played by Andy Samberg. Mavis falls in love with him, much to Dracula's rage... And yeah, sounds like a story you've heard dozens of times, only with monsters.

Under normal circumstances, I probably would have written this movie off as really stupid and lame since, you know, Adam Sandler, and while the trailer doesn't look that bad, it doesn't seem like anything special. It's premise is... interesting, I suppose, if you're into monsters, and it has a couple of cute jokes, but it just seemed like something that would flow under the radar... But there IS something that makes me want to see this movie, and makes me think it will rise beyond normal expectations.

It's being directed by Genndy Tartakovsky.

Yes, Genndy Tartakovsky, creator of Cartoon Networks favorites such as Dexter's Laboratory, Samurai Jack, and Sym-Biotic Titan. He's also was responsible for the original 2D incarnation of Star Wars: The Clone Wars (aka, one of the few GOOD things to come out of the prequels), and wrote, directed, and even animated for such shows as 2 Stupid Dogs, The Powerpuff Girls and much more! He's a legend among modern-day animation directors and animators in general!

And BECAUSE of that, this movie is innocent until proven guilty in my book. Here's hoping!

[Goombachi]

I stopped watching as soon as the music started.

Of all songs to parody, why -that one-.

[Nightmare]

Shouldn't this be in Books/Movies/Music?

I'm a pretty big fan of old school Dracula, Stoker was a really compelling author. I keep the whole vampire fandom at an arm's distance, though. Virtually all of it is unbelievably shitty.
Don't let that comment have you think that I gave up on this movie automatically, I watched through the trailer and all and I see that one of the greatest cartoon director's I've ever known is on this, too. It still doesn't change the fact this rubs me the wrong way.
I have no qualms with Sandler, he's pretty funny at times, and holy s*** if he isn't the least of the problems I have with this movie. This is not just a vampire movie, but a Dracula movie, that is a romantic comedy starring a recent Disney kid star (if I don't like them when they are kids why should I care about them when they grow up?). I don't see how this combination could be enjoyable at all, for me personally at least.
I can see other people liking this, maybe, but the whole spooky, monster culture (or whatever you can call the things usually associated to halloween) is like wine to me, there is a very fine peak of pleasure for experiencing it, and it's hard to deviate from that when all the others are such a different taste entirely. I like the kind of atmosphere you get for just general monster movies (1930s comes to mind) because it's neat and not something you can get from any other genre. I like comedy from time to time as well (Young Frankenstein, Van Helsing from 2004, etc) but the comedy has to be clever like any other comedy movie or else the movie has nothing to appreciate it. I do not like romantic plots in monster movies at all, because that defeats the purpose in all but the most situational stories. I do not like the overly violent blockbuster thriller stuff either, because there is nothing entertaining about a gore filled monster movie. Finally, I don't particularly care for the kiddy Halloween culture stuff, which I'd consider this movie to fall under. It's fun and all, but it really doesn't hit the same spot as a good scary monster movie would.

Too long; didn't read version: I have pretty particular tastes when it comes to anything that would entail a plot involving Dracula at all, and this doesn't seem terribly likely to tickle that fancy of mine. I may watch it, but this would have to be funny enough to care for it beyond the monster aesthetic.

[Poisentoad]

It looks funny but this whole vampire/human thing has been done to death already.

[Smashmatt]

Shouldn't this be in Books/Movies/Music?

I'm a pretty big fan of old school Dracula, Stoker was a really compelling author. I keep the whole vampire fandom at an arm's distance, though. Virtually all of it is unbelievably shitty.
Don't let that comment have you think that I gave up on this movie automatically, I watched through the trailer and all and I see that one of the greatest cartoon director's I've ever known is on this, too. It still doesn't change the fact this rubs me the wrong way.
I have no qualms with Sandler, he's pretty funny at times, and holy s*** if he isn't the least of the problems I have with this movie. This is not just a vampire movie, but a Dracula movie, that is a romantic comedy starring a recent Disney kid star (if I don't like them when they are kids why should I care about them when they grow up?). I don't see how this combination could be enjoyable at all, for me personally at least.
I can see other people liking this, maybe, but the whole spooky, monster culture (or whatever you can call the things usually associated to halloween) is like wine to me, there is a very fine peak of pleasure for experiencing it, and it's hard to deviate from that when all the others are such a different taste entirely. I like the kind of atmosphere you get for just general monster movies (1930s comes to mind) because it's neat and not something you can get from any other genre. I like comedy from time to time as well (Young Frankenstein, Van Helsing from 2004, etc) but the comedy has to be clever like any other comedy movie or else the movie has nothing to appreciate it. I do not like romantic plots in monster movies at all, because that defeats the purpose in all but the most situational stories. I do not like the overly violent blockbuster thriller stuff either, because there is nothing entertaining about a gore filled monster movie. Finally, I don't particularly care for the kiddy Halloween culture stuff, which I'd consider this movie to fall under. It's fun and all, but it really doesn't hit the same spot as a good scary monster movie would.

Too long; didn't read version: I have pretty particular tastes when it comes to anything that would entail a plot involving Dracula at all, and this doesn't seem terribly likely to tickle that fancy of mine. I may watch it, but this would have to be funny enough to care for it beyond the monster aesthetic.

Oh crap you're right. I didn't realize that was for movies as well as books and music.

In case some of you don't want to sit through the "Call Me, Maybe" parody, here's the official trailer that's shown in theaters:

[Goombachi]

Ok, that trailer is MUCH better.

[Nightmare]

Oh crap you're right. I didn't realize that was for movies as well as books and music.

I'll go ahead and move this topic then.

That trailer looks more interesting and gives me a little more reassurance they are at least adhering to the basic monster movie genre instead..whatever that was I saw in the Mavy trailer. I'd rather be seeing a monster movie that's also a comedy than I would a comedy that just happens to have monsters, if that makes any sense?