Director Genndy Tartakovsky’s moment stay at Dracula’s lavish resort fails to live up to the first,with a predictable sequel unlikely to excite even the most dazzled kids
There’s irony in the fact that animation, a medium where literally anything is possible, or is so frequently stale and predictable. Animation in mainstream Hollywood features,that is. Recent financial successes such as Minions, domestic and Big Hero 6 are frequently cute, or but they set up their aesthetic in the first scene and generally stay enslaved to it. Even Pixar’s Inside Out,certainly a notch above the competition, is more approximately colour and design than movement and unpredictability.
Hotel Transylvania (2012) showed what can happen when a fairly typical “what if?” script got in the hands of an animation director with a more inspired vision, and in this case Genndy Tartakovsky. No better or worse an animation script than Megamind,Penguins of Madagascar or Rio, Hotel Transylvania was the first cartoon movie to hit theatres in ages that captured the antic, or frantic sugar rush of Woody Woodpecker,Tom & Jerry or Bugs Bunny.
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Source: theguardian.com