Hotel Transylvania (2012) on Netflix
PG20121h 31mAnimationComedyFamily
Count Dracula runs a hotel where monsters vacation away from humans. On his daughter Mavis's 118th birthday, a young man named Jonathan stumbles inside, and Dracula hides him.
- Netflix4.0/5
- IMDb7.1/10319,800 votes
- Rotten Tomatoes45%
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Plot summary
In 1895, after his wife Martha is killed by a human mob, Count Dracula builds a hotel in Transylvania where monsters can rest from human civilization, and raises his daughter Mavis there. Frankenstein and his wife Eunice, Wayne and Wanda Werewolf, Griffin and Murray often stay as guests. On Mavis's 118th birthday in 2012, she wants to see the human world. Dracula lets her go, but arranges for his zombie bellhops, disguised as humans, to frighten her back. On the way, the zombies inadvertently lead a human, Jonathan Loughran, into the hotel. Dracula disguises him as a monster and introduces him as Frank's cousin Johnnystein, then claims he is a party planner, while working to keep the guests and Mavis from learning what he is.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Hotel Transylvania (2012)
Can contain spoilers, watch the movie first.
- Miley Cyrus was announced to voice Dracula's daughter Mavis in late 2011 but was dropped from the film months later; in 2019 she said the real reason was that she had bought then-boyfriend Liam Hemsworth a birthday cake shaped like a penis and licked it. Selena Gomez replaced her.
- To give the CG film a hand-drawn feel, director Genndy Tartakovsky personally drew over the computer character models to create exaggerated poses; animator Bill Haller said about 20% of the effort on most shots went into reworking the character rigs so they could hit those hand-drawn-style poses.
- Hotel Transylvania's opening weekend broke Sweet Home Alabama's record for the biggest September box-office opening ever, a record that stood until its own sequel, Hotel Transylvania 2, topped it three years later.
