Hotel Transylvania 3: Summer Vacation
Sony Pictures Releasing | Release Date: July 13, 2018 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
54
METASCORE
Mixed or average reviews based on 23 Critic Reviews
Positive:
7
Mixed:
13
Negative:
3
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Critic Reviews

Critic scorePublicationBy date
40
The Observer (UK)Simran HansAug 14, 2018
The relatively scant highlights include the film’s sunset pastels, shoals of fish in penguin waiter uniforms, a homage to Atlantis (the Las Vegas one) and a plot point involving the power of the Macarena. Read full review
60
The TelegraphTristram Fane SaundersAug 9, 2018
It’s a pleasant mini-break that should keep little monsters quiet for a while, and a welcome excuse to hide in the crypt-like cool of your local multiplex’s air-conditioning. Read full review
60
New York Magazine (Vulture)Emily YoshidaJul 15, 2018
Ultimately, Hotel Transylvania 3 is for very young children, and God love it for that. Read full review
50
Film Journal InternationalFrank LoveceJul 12, 2018
Aside from a witty montage near the start of the movie and sparks of his cheeky, goodhearted subversiveness later on, most of Hotel Transylvania 3: Summer Vacation is bludgeoningly broad and obvious. Read full review
50
Arizona RepublicBarbara VanDenburghJul 12, 2018
Hotel Transylvania 3 is a harmless enough excuse for a couple hours of air-conditioned entertainment, which is all some people ask of a kid’s film. But there’s something bleak about its banality. Read full review
75
Chicago TribuneRick BentleyJul 12, 2018
Hotel Transylvania 3: Summer Vacation is a visual splendor, from the fun way the creatures are portrayed to the pacing. Keeping Tartakovsky as director of all three films creates a fluid sense of comedy and look. Read full review
50
San Francisco ChroniclePeter HartlaubJul 12, 2018
A film that defies lowered expectations — if not the tired adolescent mind-set and poor joke-writing — and emerges as the best in the series. Read full review
38
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)Brad WheelerJul 12, 2018
The deal with the new Hotel Transylvania animated comedy is that Count Dracula needs a vacation, but, really, it’s the creative team behind the franchise who could use the time off. Read full review
60
Los Angeles TimesKimber MyersJul 12, 2018
Hotel Transylvania 3 may lack the indelibility of the medium’s best offerings for kids, but hopefully its clear theme of acceptance lingers long after the inoffensive odor of its fart jokes dissipates. Read full review
40
The New York TimesGlenn KennyJul 12, 2018
The scenes of Dracula befuddled by a mobile phone were familiar; those in which the vampire’s garlic “intolerance” preludes a flatulence joke predictable. Returning a third time as director, Genndy Tartakovsky lends his usual graphic savvy, providing a not-quite-saving grace. Read full review
67
Austin ChronicleDanielle WhiteJul 11, 2018
No offense to composer Mark Mothersbaugh (who is heavily involved in all three films) but the soundtrack is better this time around, thanks to some heavy, entrancing, villainous beats by DJ Tiësto. Read full review
63
USA TodayBrian TruittJul 11, 2018
Between the goofy humor, Adam Sandler’s hallmark gibberish and an unfortunate return of "The Macarena," Hotel Transylvania 3: Summer Vacation houses an unexpectedly affecting story of modern love with a creaky vampire dad. Read full review
67
Entertainment WeeklyChris NashawatyJul 10, 2018
The harmless high jinks all go down easily enough without being particularly memorable or pushing the art form past the expected. Read full review
50
RogerEbert.comBrian TallericoJul 10, 2018
Genndy Tartakovsky brings back all the fan favorites from the previous two films and sets them all on an overcrowded, doomed cruise, but the thin plot feels less engaging than the previous films and the jokes less inspired. Read full review
38
Slant MagazineDerek SmithJul 10, 2018
There are only so many monster-centric jokes to be made before they become toothless, and only so many ways to preach tolerance before it sounds more like blunt moralizing. Read full review
60
Village VoiceBilge EbiriJul 10, 2018
For all its frantic eager-to-please-ness, Hotel Transylvania 3 doesn’t quite achieve the blissfully reliable drumbeat of hilarious throwaway gags that the earlier films managed. Read full review
60
ScreenCrushMatt SingerJul 10, 2018
The’re not a lot of momentum to Hotel Transylvania 3; this is a children’s film after all. But the character and location designs are inventive and appealing, and there are several memorable set pieces, including a wordless scuba diving sequence that draws heavy inspiration from classic Warner Bros. cartoons. Read full review
67
The A.V. ClubJesse HassengerJul 9, 2018
It’s pleasantly baffling to discover that not only is Hotel Transylvania 3 easily the best film of the series, but it also feels more at home thematically on a cruise ship than its predecessors did at a haunted Transylvanian castle. Read full review
91
IndieWireJamie RighettiJul 8, 2018
With plenty of laughs, truly dazzling animation, and some more of the franchise’s signature dance sequences, Hotel Transylvania 3: Summer Vacation is a summer treat worth savoring, and a reminder that if we can see past our differences, we’ll find we’re not that different after all. Read full review
50
The Hollywood ReporterJohn DeForeJul 7, 2018
The movie flirts with the usual mixed-signals of romantic comedy, but is on much more solid ground with sight gags (as when Drac's jello-like blob friend happily absorbs the slice-and-smash violence Ericka aims at the vampire) and character work that depends less on celebrity voice talent than on body-language animation. Read full review
40
VarietyScott TobiasJul 7, 2018
Tartakovsky’s instincts are to keep the action moving quickly and let one piece of kid-friendly slapstick tumble into the next, but when the jokes are this consistently uninspired, it doesn’t matter how fast they’re dispensed. Read full review
38
Movie NationRoger MooreJul 7, 2018
It’s just the jokes that aren’t funny — not even to the supposedly undemanding (very young) audience these films are tailored to. Read full review
80
TheWrapAlonso DuraldeJul 7, 2018
Hotel Transylvania 3 always goes for the joke and rarely misses. Read full review
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