Hotel Transylvania

Why does everything need a franchise? What is so special about Hotel Transylvania to warrant a sequel and a T.V. series? When I first saw Hotel Transylvania for my fourteenth birthday, I thought that it was pretty fair and Mavis was cringe-worthily foolish as a child. And because I wasn't a big fan of the first film, I didn't know if I wanted to see the sequel.

This series is coming from a company that has never made a great animated film that I've seen from them. I caught the last 20 minutes of the first episode and the whole thing was just clichéd. It had lowbrow humor, a replaced voice cast when the original voice cast were okay, and an again, clichéd plot. I even want to say the animation is mostly bad but it's hard to get used to the new 2.D. animation.

This series doesn't seem to have anything to do with the sequel. Why do I need to know more about Mavis and company? They already showed her as a child, growing up, learning how to fly and I think that's enough.

Laughing out loud.

Hotel Transylvania the series is funner and zanier than the original source. Love the writing and voice acting. Mavis is great and deserves to be the star. Love how fast she zooms around. This voice actor has way more energy than Selena Gomez of the movies, who makes Mavis too flat and bland. Mavis in the movies is pretty much a non-character, mopey and charmless. This 'teenage' Mavis is a ball of hilarious.

The 11 minute episode format leaves no room for melodrama and sappy stuff like the movies have. It's just fun. Great cameo characters too like Medusa. Haven't experienced a lot of predictable or stereotypical monster stuff. They have free reign to create lore which is refreshing.

The music is great too with a mix of punk, hip hop, mariachi,etc.

Artwork, animation, cinematography, writing, all tops. Best out there.

Season 2 is just as great as 1! Pretty much my favorite cartoon of the 2000's. And I watch a lot of cartoons. Thank you to the producers of this show

Like all movies converted into a TV-series, this is supposed to happen before the first movie. Dracula only has a few cameos (The best character in the show!), they've added a really annoying slime/blob/nerd character and the main character has a completely different personality from the movie. The animation is just fine, it's not hand drawn and fluid, but flash animated and almost seems like it's missing frames. It just stutters a lot. The main character's design looks like someone from "Star vs the Forces of Evil", which isn't necessarily a bad thing. Too much slapstick, which doesn't really work when the animation is so limited and stiff. Horrible jokes too

I really liked the take on Mavis' younger years (teen years). The characters were all very well thought out (um, except maybe Klaus(h)), with different personalities that draw them all together. My personal favorite is Aunt Lydia. I also liked that the audience gets to see more of Hotel Transylvania and its workers/guests.... This series took me by surprise-I absolutely enjoy watching it-and I hope to see more on Netflix.

Though my feelings about the movies are at best mixed, I found this to be a charming animated show that actually works better.

There's nothing too ground breaking in this supernatural sitcom set-up but I find that rather refreshing. I feel this feels more like something made in the early 2000s and that is not meant to be an insult with its fast paced stories providing easy, casual viewing.

The artistic direction and design is just superb. I really felt immersed in this homage to classic horror but with a slick, contemporary twist with rich world building in which I could believe there was a secret culture where marginalized creatures live beyond the domain of humans. The red-and-black interior design of the hotel is at once enticing and oddly soothing.

The humor is mostly narrative driven unless it plays off the setting and it can be somewhat repellent or juvenile which I didn't love but it does restrain itself quite a bit more than the movies in that respect.

I'm unsure, however, whether I am really a fan of the show or weather I am just a fan of Mavis. In the movies the plots revolved more about other characters doing things regarding her but here she is unambiguously the protagonist and they fleshed her out nicely. She is a sweet but mischievous girl who doesn't mind bending the rules or the truth to get what she wants but is loyal to her friends and has a very positive relationship with her doting father.

Her character animation and facial expressions are just delight after delight, the way she does her little joy dance or looks nonplussed when a plot thickens. She is naughty but nice.

I watched this mostly in the French and Polish dubs which were fabulous, especially Margarite D'amour and Zuzanna Bernat respectively as Mavis. However, Bryn McAuley was also amazing, all three being far more appealing than Gomez.

Also, Mavis' design translates to two dimensions so well.

I won't say this show wasn't somewhat disposable but sometimes you need something like that. I really want more episodes on Netflix!