"Hotel Transylvania 3: Summer Vacation" middle-aged vampire love at second sight

The quality of the Sony animation department’s recent animation works is gradually declining. Almost the current production level and market response are almost mixed, including the Emoji Movie (the Emoji Movie), which is quite satisfactory, and the trilogy of Peter Rabbit and The Smurfs, the final product. A fairly impressive god came to Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs. Now, "Hotel Transylvania", which has been produced at a small cost and has mixed reviews, has come to the third part Hotel Transylvania 3: Summer Vacation. I was worried that "Hotel Transylvania" will be included in the third part of "The Smurfs". The song's footsteps has become a children's comedy with very vulgar jokes, but based on the charm of Adam Sandler and other monster characters, the final result of "Summer Vacation" is still not enough. Qualified.

The third in the series: "Hotel Transylvania 3: Summer Vacation"

Basically, fans who like the first two movies will still eat the "Monster Holiday" set, but to put it bluntly, the creativity of the series writers has also been exhausted, and it has become a vulgar family comedy (the second episode has clearly shown Signs of fatigue exist), the charm of Dracula’s comedy performances by Sandler has weakened one by one, and the rest of the monsters have become less and less likable. The only human horn Jonathan and the half-human half-vampire hybrid Dennis It has become the most blunt corner of the film, but this does not mean that "Monster Holiday" has no entertainment elements: some details are rich in settings, the laughs are still the same, the description of family elements and family traditions is still interesting, compared with the first The second part comes with more story content and sincerity, but it is not as important as the first episode.

"Hotel Transylvania", which has assembled many classic movie and television monsters, has always emphasized the core axis of the binary opposition between "monsters" and "humans." The contradiction between humans and monsters is a union, which violates family traditions and world rules. In the third part of "Summer Vacation", the two elements are combined again, and the "Monster Hunter" Van Helsing family and monsters are combined. And deepen the background of "Summer Vacation" for the binary opposition between people and monsters in this series.

Ghosts have to fall in love

The most popular feature of the "Hotel Transylvania" series is undoubtedly aimed at the family viewing market, the harmonious family structure and the same warm tone. The first two parts explained that Dracula’s beloved daughter has always been the main axis of the whole series. When the arc of the roles of Memphis and Jonathan had come to an end, this time "Summer Vacation" was changed to take the story of the middle-aged vampire Dracula looking for another spring as the main axis.

Although in the animated film series, scripts with the theme of "Middle-aged People Pursuing the Other Half" are not uncommon, such as Manny and Yili in (Ice Age 2) and Gru and Lucy in (Despicable Me 2), " The same goes for Dracula and Erica in "Summer Vacation", which is exactly the same as the "Human Love" of Memphis and Jonathan in the first film. As a descendant of the Van Helsing family, Erica added a strong smell of gunpowder and twists to Dracula's courtship in seeking another second spring.

The latest work to return to the standard

On the whole, "Hotel Transylvania 3: Summer Vacation" continues the monotonous narrative and comedy temperament of the first two films. The plot direction and mode are the same as those of the first two "Hotel Transylvania", showing the blood of the monster movies in the series. The contrast remains the same, almost returning to the level that the first episode should be: we will still love and enjoy the good time this group of monsters get together.

It is appropriate to regard "Summer Vacation" as a series ending, but will the Sony Animation Department make this trilogy based on a small cost and get good box office revenue, and once again launch the fourth "Hotel Transylvania" "? Is the "Hotel Transylvania" series really heading towards a shipwreck like "The Smurfs"? On the contrary, I am quite happy to see Sony develop an animated series of "Hotel Transylvania" or XD of the short film series.