Hotel Transylvania 3: Summer Vacation

Tepid, though not entirely charmless...

Even watched beside various incarnations of the Addams and the Munsters, this remains the most family-friendly and proudly silly of all the monster dynasties.

Hotel Translyvania 3 looks very much a B-movie, with characters that are easy to like but hard to love. Still, at just 97 minutes it doesn't outstay its welcome.

It's crass, culturally bankrupt cash-grabbing that celebrates the worst, most obnoxious aspects of a globally popular Hollywood genre (kids' animation).

The whole thing, with its joyless and incessant parade of sub-Tex Avery quirks, looks as if it has been generated by some sort of automated software: a non-entertainment bot.

It ends even more absurdly than it begins.

For all the music that Hotel Transylvania 3: Summer Vacation offers, it amounts to a one-note production.

...though there's no sunshine in the movie, Hotel Transylvania 3 definitely has a summer vibe. And watching these characters try to navigate the naturally corny nature of a cruise ship vacation is pretty hilarious.

The film sinks faster than the Lost City of Atlantis.

Undeniably fun, brightly animated and has enough of a unique style to stand as an animated offering well worth taking the family to.