The TERRIBLE Hotel Transylvania 3... 

Movies like this, Smurfs lost village, Trolls, boss fetus is the reason why animated cliches are seen in a negative light instead of being tropes are tropes

imagine if they had like, actually expanded on their themes and discussed remarrying in more depth along with the idea that people CAN find love again and that a "zing" isnt always a one time thing

Fun fact: the Macarena song is about a girl named Macarena who’s husband is drafted to the army and then she cheats on him with two of her friends. Perfect for relationship building! 😁👍

too bad more animated children's film series don't ever take the route of maturing a bit as their audience does, i.e How to train your dragon and even Kung Fu panda take on somewhat more mature themes in the later movies and aren't afraid of mortality, while still having a childlike charm and fun animation

This whole film feels like a ton of random scenes just kinda stitched together. I like how there's the one shot of the boat just hanging out on the water for like 20 seconds.

I thought it was implied In the first movie that Dracula loved his late wife Martha so much, that she was irreplaceable. Plus, I thought the characters in this world can only Zing ONCE! So why would they Give Dracula another Love Interest?! Look, I get that these movies aren't as deep as Castlevania, but I really expected better from them. Edit: Okay, you guys In the comments do make a good point. After thinking about it, There's nothing wrong with remarriage and moving on.

I find it hilarious that the new my little pony: a new generation had better and more consistent themes about prejudices and acceptance of differences than this movie, while having genuinely clever and funny jokes. The animation is excellent in this movie though like you say, absolutely cannot fault that

Van Helsing should be a ghost, it would be less criative, but that way they could had done much more: The Monster Hunter that became a monster and hunts other monsters.

Fun fact: According to director Genndy Tartakovsky, he got the inspiration for Hotel Transylvania 3 after he returned from a "miserable" family vacation and took major inspiration for the film from the National Lampoon's Vacation movies, as the film would take place aboard a cruise ship.

I would kill for a movie about Abraham Van Hellsing and Drac's fights

I’m genuinely surprised at how chill this comment section is.

"a zing only happens once in your life" *cuts to dracula getting a second zing at the end of this abomination

maybe I'm taking an animated series too seriously, but the fact that they completely ignore the zinging once in your life thing is really stupid. she didnt even really help dracula move on from the death of his wife, dracula was just cool with dating again and kind of just ignoring his dead wife in the process. it wouldve been much more interesting if it was dracula who was having second thoughts about getting together with someone with mavis pushing him to find someone new. hell, even if they included the cliche of an unopened note from his dead wife revealing she'd want him to honor her memory in addition to him finding happiness with someone else. instead he just instantly falls for the captain girl with no inner turmoil or anything about finding love again after so long. whatever, I'll keep coming back to these movies for the entertaining animation alone, I just wish they didn't forget how to write good plots.

It's so surreal to imagine how Tartakovsky also made Primal. The duality of man.

This movie would have gotten a 10/10 if the final song was the Rick roll

I would have preferred a movie about Van Hellsing's attempts at killing Dracula.

The biggest "Wow... they fucked up" part of this movie for me was the final song choice. Macarena as the ultimate feel good song. A song that tells about how a woman cheats on her boyfriend with all of his friends, in a family movie franchise, based mostly on the importance of family and love, and calls it the ultimate good song.

This movie reminded me of Despicable Me 3: I enjoy the first two movies, but the third movie felt like the studio was milking the franchise dry

Given how much I loved the first HT, it is incredibly disappointing how bad it gets with each sequel, I mean hell even Adam Sandler refused to do HT4. I can't imagine how bad that has to be.

My brother saw this movie on an international flight, deciding to watch something "silly and fun" to distract from a little flight anxiety. He wasn't expecting the Gremlin airline scene! His next selection was well as Madagascar 2... another one with a plane crash. What the heck, KLM?

“This guy’s a full illumination character”

"We now return to How Dracula Got His Groove Back."

I really hate when a kids' movie can't just let characters die. "YoU cAn'T hAvE dEaTh In A kIdS' mOvIe!" You can and should. Having everyone make up and live happily ever after is stupid. If a hero sacrifices themself only to be resurrected or "surprise! they didn't die" undermines their sacrifice. If a villain is saved from death or spared, you kinda have to lock em up in chains. If you let them go free, you have to give them a change of heart, one that has built up to throughout the movie. You can't just go "u saved me? wot? y?" because that's totally against their whole character throughout the whole movie. They could have been destroying cities, enslaving millions, or/and making deals with the devil. Saving them once is not gonna change their hearts. They aren't gonna just abandon their goals. **Spoilers cause I'm gonna do examples: ** Take Sisu from Raya and the Last Dragon. If she stayed dead, she could have been a memory, a legacy, a reminder, a lesson of the destruction and pain caused from fighting amongst yourselves and that the path to victory is through unification. But nope, fuck that! Sisu comes back and so does literally everyone who was ever affected by the evil monster plague thing (idr its name). It's like it never happened Van Helsing from HT3 literally had no reason to change. Other than the fact that his entire evil empire (of 1 person and a giant fish) fell apart. His second-in-command left him, his secret weapon was "destroyed", his plan thwarted, and he's now surrounded by his enemies. If he had any sort of group to fall back to, it would have been even stupider that he's like "u svaed me? wao, maybe not so bad". The dude spent years, more than a century fighting monsters. One save is not gonna change him. Especially since Dracula saved him IIRC and Dracula also spent years NOT saving him. I'm pretty sure his failures at the hands of Dracula are a major reason why he's robo man now. If it was me I'd be like: "please just let me die, you're just saving me to torment me more, aren't you?"

I don't get the werewolve's side plot. The wife has constantly pregnant for over 5 years, they've obviously had lots of "alone" time to get "wild" together

See you guys in 10 years when Hollywood still pumps these movies out alongside fast and furious.

The thing that annoyed me the most is that Drac gets a new wife. Don´t get me wrong, I get the lesson here is that you can always find someone new, but it just doesn´t work when the first movie and this one both had someone say that you only fall in love once. Frank said it in the first when Drac told the monsters about Jonny and Mavis and Mavis said it to the bride in this movie. It just doesn´t work that way

The Macarena scene is weird on it's standstill however excellent for meme making

7:38 That fart joke was not only poorly done, but I remember that in the first movie, Dracula tells Johnny that when he eats garlic, his throat swells up. He said nothing about passing gas!

For a second I thought this was Transformania, I was thinking that Dazz didn’t even give it a chance! But now yeah I remember, I was cringing the whole time. Some of the freeze frames are utterly terrifying.

This movie feels a lot like the despicable me series… the first one is actually pretty damn good cause they had to try, the second is just… okay and then it all goes downhill from there

17:46 that fox on the side has a great design and so much detail. Yet she never had a light shine on her

I guess one cool thing abt this movie is the color choice they chose for Erika. The all white clothing and white hair to contrast with Drac’s all black clothing and black hair. Its a minor detail but it’s sort of cool. White is generally represented as the color of good, black is usually the color of evil. The human gets the good color while the monster gets the evil one, but the roles turn out to be switched. Its nice.

Hotel Transylvania 1 was pretty awesome, 2 was ok but not as good, 3 was probably one of the cash-grabiest movies I've ever seen.

"Turns out Alantis is just one big monster Atlantis" Isnt it the exact same thing in the movie Sponge on the run?

Are they written well? No. But if there is anything great about this movie series? The animation is absolutely wonderful. So expressive

Honestly I feel like this entire series would actually be better as one of those music-only animation exhibitions like old cartoons sometimes were. Like this art style definitely isn’t my cup of tea, but the stretchy animation is fun to watch and with the amount of time they spend on visual gags it seems like if they removed dialogue and shortened each movie a bunch the series would be a lot more bearable and easier to watch for kids and adults alike (that’s assuming that kids are like how I was as a kid and didn’t mind using context clues to make their own stories for things like ballet performances and whatnot.)

I think this was the first animated movie I ever really hated. I saw it in the theater and during the final scenes I was like "why are we still here... Just to suffer..."

You know, I’ve never really liked the whole “a zing only happens once in your life” theme. It kind of implies that if a relationship you were really into didn’t work out, or if something happened to them you are destined to be alone and miserable. I know that most people have completely unrealistic and backwards ideas about how love and emotions work (hell, the fact that some people think that divorce is a terrible sin despite it being a GOOD thing is proof of that), but that’s still a pretty terrible thing to imply.

The whole macarena bit made me WHEEZE because when I was at my friend's birthday, someone put on a 10 hour Macarena loop. We danced to 3 hours of it- no one talked, no one stopped. We all just numbly danced.

17:02 Dracula solves Racism, Homophobia,Transphobia and Sexism all in one sentence

I'm gonna be honest, the secret weapon being sheet music got a chuckle out of me.

This franchise ran out of good ideas after the second one, I wish they just ended it there

I remember sitting in the theater watching this movie, and thinking “wow, I think I’m having a fever dream?”

The movie may not be good, but the colors and animation are really nice to look at. The series definitely has a fun artstyle that has stayed consistent between each movie.

2:02 the animators where paid enough to pose each character

Scott Pilgrim vs the World has the best DJ fight.

the characters in the first movie were normal. Their facial expressions were normal everytime, and their body worked perfectly, except in the comedy moments. In the second movie, they added more "noodle body" scenes, and lazy jokes. the 3rd movie is just pure chaos, and the next one is prob gonna be one

5:54 “So where did the trauma come from?” “It all started, on the high school basketball team…”

how many more hotel Transylvania movies could they possibly make Can't wait for Hotel Transylvania 1456; Ginger Kid and the Mortgage.

It does have its fair share of annoying pop culture songs, and unfunny jokes, but everything else I love about these films! The characters bounce off each other very well. And the lines are funny. I do indeed think the first two are far better than this 3rd one.

4:18 bro Dracula is literally just looking like Charlie Brown

I actually love that we got to see Dracula’s wolf form running through London, its a nice reference to the original book that I feel everyone just skips over

honestly in this case i agree of course being the way i am and noticing nuance i don't exactly admire the HT franchise as a whole but 3 in particular got me out of the idea of liking it in a totally different manner of speaking i found it to be *ULTRA* in terms of the things that i already didn't have an agreement on with the franchise

A couple inconsistencies the lore of the series; (I will update as I think of them) Movie one Dracula says garlic makes his throat swell, yet movie three it just makes him gassy.

I feel like this would've been better as a short film. I have no idea what they would do with the love interest, but I'm pretty sure they could come up with something

I thought the joke was that gremlins (from before the movie Gremlins) originally were creatures that would cause malfunctions on airplanes. Especially on the wing engines.

"Hotel Transylvania 4 gonna get release soon" is starting to sound like "I'll rule over the tri-state area"

Why didn’t the dog say “I’m bob” at the end, he just barked. It would’ve been the third “I’m bob” bit and the proper way to end the bit. Not saying it was good because it wasn’t, just saying it would’ve been better

8:11 "I can not fathom how some corner of the internet loved that" my ears started ringing and I had a PTSD flashback

11:59 fnf mods in a nutshell

"I'm getting real sick of this evil EDM" Yeah uh Tiesto's Wave Rider and Seavolution had no business going as hard as they did. But it DOES go hard, and they are BANGER tracks. Period. End of discussion. Like imagine if Kingdom Hearts could get rights to Hotel Transylvania and Sora could visit this universe, AND THE BOSS MUSIC IS THAT TRACK. Sora and Drac having some dope combo move after pressing Triangle just right and the beat drops ohhhhhh. Damn. It would be the best track in Kingdom Hearts next to the opening themes lol.

"And Dan Avidan's girlfriend-" That's a random fact if I've ever heard one.

"these movies can't handle mortality" Mavis' mother : Am I a joke to you? (I was actually hoping for a prequel actually showing what happened to her or even how Drac and Mavis' mother met. I think it would be a rather dramatic movie but at the same time interesting to see.)

7:56 It’s pretty funny if you think about it 😂 when mavis was a baby… she was 32 years old!!!🤣

Dazz knew exactly what he was doing with that thumbnail!

"Van Helsing's beats are controlling the octopus!" "We're gonna use GOOD music to beat the BAD music!" Did this movie really rip off the plot of the Splatoon Hero Mode for the final battle?

I paid a ticket for this movie and the moment it started the blankets were up and the pillow was out, I woke up at the last act of the movie. It was a nice nap.

If I had to choose between the feel-good songs and the EDM, I'd be the villain

6:49: is a normal sentence when compared to things i say

8:23 oh trust me, I met a degenerate who would get jovial over that

8:51 trollface

I'll be honest, I actually enjoyed Hotel Transylvania 3 when I watch it, but the reason is the same when I watched the other films and that I watch them as Saturday Morning Cartoons (which you said is an Amazing Cartoon), and heck say what you want about these films, but I'm honestly sick of how most animated feature films try so damn hard to mimic real life in the animation (and for some reason that worthy of praise) that its honestly refrshing to see an animated feature film series that actually embraces the fact that their animated.

Van Helsing at the end: you saved me... why? Dracula: MMMMMMM, HELSING

YES IT IS Garlic makes their throats swell like they said IN THE VERY FIRST MOVIE. All thrown away for the sake of Fart Jokes 😒

PLEASE tell me that I'm not the only one who's ticked that Griffon gets a face reveal in the 4th movie

6:35 why are drac and mavis wearing scuba masks? They’re literally undead

0:55 plot twist: they wanted to use 1987 but they discovered fnaf

hotel transylvania came out in 2012 when i was like 8 or so, now im 18 and i would have loved to see the movie mature with the audience tbh

My biggest gripe with this movie is the garlic joke. I am a huge fan of the first one to where I KNOW that when Johnny asks Drac about garlic, Drac says it makes his throat swell. It’s clear the writers hadn’t seen the first one in a while. I wish they didn’t throw away lore for such a juvenile joke. They could’ve had the assassination attempt fail by having Drac use an Epipen while not taking his dumb lovely look away from her, or something like that.

as an enthusiast of early-20th-century ocean liners, when i saw that ship in the movie… *…i wanted to cry i hated it so much*

The evil song Van Hellsing uses on the kraken is an absolute bop tho,like whoever made it knew what they were doing

The whole date scene with the garlic completely contradicts the first movie where Dracula says that garlic makes his throat swell up. How do the writers forget something from 2 movies ago?!

On the animation. Wish i could find it, but someone on tumblr said something along the lines of: "I need you to understand that the hotel Transylvania movies are like if you got the most skilled, proficient automobile experts in the world and forced them to build a clown car."

Despite how this movie isn't very good, I LOVE the way the animation looks at 3:50. It's very cartoony, and it's much different from a static character model.

I personally like this film. It’s no masterpiece, and it’s far from great, but it’s just a really fun movie and I actually do like the wacky animation. The jokes were charming and Genndy clearly had fun making it.

i always thought that “ultimate weapon” song at the end sounded a lot like Astronomia (just listen to 12:30)

Aren't Mavis and johnny the first monster human legacy?

"It's time to start a new legacy!" "A monster human legacy" Hold up, Mavis and Johnny already did that in the first film, umm what?

I watched the 4th film yesterday, 80 minutes I'll never get back.

As a ginger named John, I think you can tell why I was uncomfortable watching any of the series

remember when Johnny actually had a purpose in the story?

I have to confess. I know this isn't a good movie... I know I shouldn't like this movie. But I have an absolute soft spot for this movie. I just... I can't help it! Parts of it and scenes of it are just so god damn wholesome for me. I really love all the scenes where it's just the family hanging out and having a legit good time together. It's SO wholesome. And when Drac's friends just hang out and build a sandcastle... That's cute man. Drac's and Erica's date... they seem to legit like each other and... I also really liked the little scene where Maive and Jonnhy are talking and Jonnhy supports Maive but also points out, the important thing is that Drac is happy and Maive actually agrees so she has to put aside her own immediate feelings for her dad's happiness. Of course, all of that is thrown in the bin in pretty much in the next scene, but for how long it lasted... It was just wholesome. I can't hate this movie. I know I should. But I guess in todays world where SO many of these kinds of movies try to be edgy and mean spirited and so on. This one just... is not. It's cute. The characters are all sweet and legit care about each other so... I can't hate it... I might even... kind of love it.... It's my guilty pleasure okay! I'm sorry!

Ok but the Music Van Helsing Played was sick in my opinion

The fish staff were the best characters, change my mind

Flashback intro with on-top-of-his-game Van Hellsing was the best scene of entire darn movie

Me and my dad LOVED this film we look old we can be entertained by marbles being rolled everywhere

0:47 Wait, really? Ashley? Yo, that's actually pretty cool! I had no idea she's an animator!

They should have used Baby Shark as the evil song that drives you to madness

The first and second movie will always have a special place in my heart😌

Ngl but here in LATAM the Macarena dance scene was and is all a meme here, it's so horribly annoying and funny at the same time.