I didn’t think I would get these in before the deadline and finally rented all three of the Hotel Transylvania movies which were on 99 cent special from Redbox. Attempting to finish the third before 9pm tonight. Already watched the first last night and second today. There is some weird stuff in it, especially vegan unfriendly animated monster food, but overly cute and not too much. I especially like the mini werewolves, like Winnie Werewolf, who do aggressive comic relief scenes that fly by. One might have to ‘rewind’ to see if you aren’t paying attention. I also keep forgetting who plays some of the voices. Two of the leads for example, Adam Sandler (Dracula) and Selena Gomez (Mavis), are really impressive because you can’t tell it’s them. Overall I think this movie trilogy, so far, is overloaded with talent and production/animation skills. Sometimes I think it’s wanting to go over the PG line as Adam Sandler associated movies many times do, but I have to think that considering the many of comedians in this that they are being well behaved for family-friendly, Halloween musts.
Evening update: I finished the third movie. It is a vacation that mostly takes place in transit where Dracula zings for someone on the cruise who tries to secretly kill him. It’s a strange turn of events as Dracula falls head over heels. I liked the different scenes of the airplane to Atlantis through the Bermuda Triangle. All of these could be watched anytime of the year as the main ideas can be applied to lots of relationship philosophical points. I read some past reviews on Wikipedia about critics wanting to put a stake in the heart of the series. Apparently they are already working on one for the holiday season of 2021. Since I started watching movies again, these were the easiest to get into and finish all the way through of all the movies I have seen this year. There was a point in the first movie I was scrutinizing one section and rewinding as I kept getting a bad impression and it turned out okay. I finished it being glad it was a great movie and the other two were as well. The biggest difference in the third movie was Mavis. Her facial expressions seemed like a totally different person. Anyways catch up with you guys on Christmas in two years.