Hotel Transylvania - C-

Rated PG, 91 minutes

Busy, mildly enjoyable "Hotel Transylvania" isn't worth the stay

Adam Sandler is Dracula

You’d think with load of comedic talent featured in the mediocre, busy “Hotel Transylvania” that it’d be funnier, but it’s not and is really just a thin premise strung together by a load of mildly funny sight gags and throwaway lines. This is about Dracula's (Adam Sandler) lavish five-stake resort known as Hotel Transylvania, where monsters and their families can live it up, free to be the monsters they are without humans to bother them. On one special weekend, Dracula has invited some of the world's most famous monsters—Frankenstein (Kevin James) and his bride (Fran Drescher), the Mummy (Cee Lo Green), the Invisible Man (David Spade), a family of werewolves  (Steve Buschemi and Molly Shannon), and more--to celebrate his daughter Mavis's (Selena Gomez) 118th birthday. For Drac, catering to all of these legendary monsters is no problem--but his world could come crashing down when one ordinary guy (Andy Samberg) stumbles on the hotel and takes a shine to Mavis. This “Hotel” is strictly for kids who enjoy this type of thing, which has been done better and more amusing with the “Shrek” films, which this is a pale imitation of.  It also doesn’t help that its star, Sandler, hasn’t had much luck lately at the box office after the horribly offensive “That’s My Boy” and “Jack and Jill.” He doesn’t do many favors for this film, either, and while the animation is colorfully serviceable, the silly humor is mostly annoying (Sandler’s music, fart jokes and Drescher). Do yourself and your family a favor and keep on driving until you find a better establishment than the sporadically enjoyable “Hotel Transylvania,” and better entertainment while you’re at it. Four star talent, two star humor.

Wes's Grade: C-