“Hotel Transylvania” is an animated horror-comedy for kids and all it proves to be is further evidence that the only good horror intended for kids is that of the original 1960s “Scooby-Doo” cartoon show. It’s messy, it’s not very funny and the animation looks cheap.

In “Hotel Transylvania”, Dracula (Adam Sandler “Big Daddy”, “Happy Gilmore”) owns a hotel where the monsters of the world can hide from the persecution of human beings. On her 118th birthday Dracula’s daughter Mavis (Selena Gomez) seeks to go to the human world and at the same time a young human named Johnny finds himself at the resort.

The monsters are boring and you’ll notice a few of them are voiced by the various by the same cast members as the also bad film “Grown-Ups”, which came out round the same time as we hear Adam Sandler, Kevin James (“Here Comes The Boom”), David Spade etc… making me think the contract was a two-for-one deal. The Mavis character is incredibly dull and no kid will find her interesting as they try to make her too deep. The Johnny character is very irritating and I wanted to see the monsters eat him up. The characters just don’t work here.

The film might have a few cutesy moments but it tries to be far too deep and meaningful for a cartoon about famous monsters yet it’s still too dumb to appeal to anybody who isn’t a young child. It’s boring, the animation looks only a tiny bit better than a lot of C.G. cartoons on television, the jokes are bad for the most part and the music numbers are plain awful. It’s a very poor quality to film and I don’t see why a parent can’t just show their child some of the decent Universal Studios monsters movies of the 30s and 40s (“Frankenstein” and “Dracula” are excellent) as they are quite tame by today’s standards.