Hotel Transylvania 2
Columbia Pictures | Release Date: September 25, 2015 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
44
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Mixed or average reviews based on 24 Critic Reviews
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4
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12
Negative:
8
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Critic Reviews

Critic scorePublicationBy date
80
TheWrapAlonso DuraldeSep 24, 2015
Whereas the jokes in the “Grown Ups” series feel reactionary and bullying, the family-friendly Hotel Transylvania gags (in the script by Sandler and Robert Smigel) instead come off as clever and humane, even when they’re making fun of helicopter moms and lawsuit-sensitive summer camps. Read full review
75
Chicago TribuneRick BentleyOct 2, 2015
The spookiest thing about Hotel Transylvania 2 is how much funnier, colorful and more original it is this second time around. Read full review
70
The Hollywood ReporterMichael RechtshaffenSep 24, 2015
This time around, greater attention has been paid to story and character development (while scaling back on all the sight gags) and the substantial results give the ample voice cast and returning director Genndy Tartakovsky more to sink their teeth into, with pleasing results. Read full review
67
Entertainment WeeklyDevan CogganSep 24, 2015
Genndy Tartakovsky returns as director, and the creator of "Samurai Jack and Dexter’s Laboratory" has somehow managed to kick up the energy even more for the sequel. Read full review
60
CineVueJamie NeishOct 28, 2015
Hotel Transylvania 2, much like its predecessor, never aims too high, so the fact that it comes as such a pleasant surprise makes it all the more entertaining. Read full review
60
The TelegraphTim RobeyOct 28, 2015
Unusually for any film top-billed by Adam Sandler these days, there are jokes to please young and old. Read full review
60
New York Magazine (Vulture)Bilge EbiriSep 29, 2015
Hotel Transylvania 2 is minor, to be sure, but given the comedian’s recent work, it still counts as a pleasant surprise. Read full review
60
Los Angeles TimesCharles SolomonSep 24, 2015
Genndy Tartakovsky is a talented director who knows how to telegraph what an animated character is thinking and doing and how to move a character in ways that suggest personality. Read full review
58
The A.V. ClubJesse HassengerSep 25, 2015
The problem is, Hotel Transylvania 2 focuses so intently on parental neuroses—Dracula needs Mavis to remain his little girl and needs his new grandson to conform to his vampire lineage—that the movie itself feels smothering (especially on the heels of the similarly themed original). Read full review
50
The New York TimesGlenn KennySep 24, 2015
Some jokes actually work (a GPS-voice gag induced unforced laughter), and the whole thing is amiable and colorful and surprisingly low on body-function gags. It may not kill you to take your kids. Read full review
50
Boston GlobeTom RussoSep 24, 2015
For the haters out there, you could see where Sandler reprising his role as a cartoon Dracula in Hotel Transylvania 2 might just be the perfect metaphor: Yep, there he goes again, evilly sucking the lifeblood out of decent entertainment. Now come on, let’s grab the torches! Read full review
50
Arizona RepublicBill GoodykoontzSep 24, 2015
There are some nice messages of inclusion, but they’re crowded out by a big dumb action scene at the end. Read full review
50
Washington PostSandie Angulo ChenSep 24, 2015
If you enjoy Sandler’s brand of obvious humor and don’t mind noticeable Sony product placements, this inoffensive sequel is, like its predecessor, just enough for a Halloween treat. Read full review
50
Movie NationRoger MooreSep 24, 2015
It skews very young, and for that crowd, Hotel Transylvania 2 works well enough. If this is Sandler’s sentence for all the awful, lazy live-action fare he’s fed his fans over the years, he and we can say he got off easy. Read full review
40
The GuardianJordan HoffmanSep 26, 2015
By the end of this 89-minute film, I was absolutely on the edge of my seat. Not due to suspense, but due to my utter disdain for the infantile plotting. Read full review
40
New York Daily NewsStephen WhittySep 25, 2015
Well, put a stake in it. It's done. Read full review
38
RogerEbert.comSusan WloszczynaSep 25, 2015
If this all sounds rather dull, that is because it is. Read full review
38
Slant MagazineEric HendersonSep 24, 2015
It risks offense by putting a typically Adam Sandler-ian twist on a tired familial trope, though such risks can often be the only thing enlivening forced franchise installments like this one. Read full review
30
VarietyNick SchagerSep 24, 2015
Any message about the need for open-mindedness in life and love, however, is muddled by a slapdash plot that ultimately cares less about taking a stand in favor of progressive values than it does in superficially employing such feel-good ideas for unimaginative, hyperactive adolescent slapstick. Read full review
25
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)Calum MarshOct 2, 2015
Hotel Transylvania 2 is what you might call frivolously scary: scary by mistake, or scary for no reason. Read full review
25
New York PostKyle SmithSep 24, 2015
When Mel Brooks checks in to play Dracula’s dad, harrumphing and looking exactly like Grandpa Munster, you realize Sandler and Co. aren’t trying any harder than they did in “Jack and Jill” or “Pixels.” Read full review
25
San Francisco ChroniclePeter HartlaubSep 24, 2015
Belongs in a less ambitious category of sequels, alongside the creatively lacking “Alvin and the Chipmunks” and “Ice Age” movies. Read full review
20
New Orleans Times-PicayuneMike ScottSep 25, 2015
Where's a wooden stake when you need one? Read full review
20
Austin ChronicleJosh KupeckiSep 24, 2015
Channeling your inner child, you may find solace in Hotel Transylvania 2, but in the end it has no bite, doing continued disservice to the Universal monsters it scabs out, and adding another soiled feather to Sandler’s cap of mediocrity. Read full review
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