Garlic Free Summer Fun in the Moonlight – Hotel Transylvania 3: Summer Vacation Review

Hotel Transylvania 3: Summer Vacation flips the script, Dracula first learned to accept that his daughter loves a human, then he learned to love humans himself, now it’s time for him to take his own journey of love. And that journey is a fast-paced, insane trip that doesn’t always hit but is a fun ride nonetheless.

Adam Sandler reprises his role as our “bleh bleh bleh” Dracular. While he enjoys running his hotel and spending time with his family, he’s lonely. He doesn’t believe in having a second “zing,” the monster equivalent of love at first sight, and has pretty much resigned himself to being alone. Though this doesn’t stop him at a poor attempt at monster tinder. Mavis (Selena Gomez) mistakes this for him being overworked and decides to take everyone on a family vacation with a monster sea cruise. It’s there that Drac lays eyes on Captain Ericka (Kathryn Hahn) and zings. It’s up to his buddies Frank (Kevin James), Wayne (Steve Buscemi), Griffin (David Spade), and Murray (Keegan-Michael Key) to get Drac’s game up. Unbeknownst to them, Ericka is really the great-granddaughter of Abraham Van Helsing (Jim Gaffigan), on a mission to not only kill Drac but all the monsters on the cruise. Genndy Tartakovsky, best known for Samurai Jack, returns as the director. Honestly, I’m not sure if it was directed by him or the Wacky Waving Inflatable Arm-Flailing Tubeman. The characters have always been animated long, stringy, and eccentric, but I feel like the third movie cranked this up…