Hotel Transylvania loses Adam Sandler, but retains its animated energy in Transformania

The Hotel Transylvania franchise has thus far made a charming go of exploring the deep humanity and family bonds within the realm of monsters, so it makes s...

Adam Sandler and director Genndy Tartakovsky bowed out of this sequel; should you?

Monsters and humans swap places in Jennifer Kluska and Derek Drymon’s final installment of the ‘Hotel Transylvania’ franchise, featuring voice work by ...

Larry Mantle and KPCC film critics Christy Lemire, Andy Klein and Charles Solomon review this weekend’s new movie releases on streaming and on demand platf...

"Hotel Transylvania: Transformania" features familiar frenetic energy and physical comedy, and Dracula learning another lesson about acceptance.

Director James Gunn and star John Cena make ‘Peacemaker’ a silly superhero treat; also worth seeing are ‘Belle,’ ‘Velvet Queen.’

The plot, about a crystal-powered ray gun that can turn monsters into humans, seems to acknowledge the need to goose its characters out of their inertia.

The fourth in the animated series about the vampire who runs a residential hotel for monsters is the brightest, funniest, sweetest, and all-around best in th...

Adam Sandler’s gone, but “Hotel Transylvania,” the animated franchise that refuses to die, is back as “Hotel Transylvania: Transformania” makes its...

Hotel Transyvlania: Transformania is a perfectly fine, mostly predictable end to the franchise.

"Hotel Transylvania: Transformania" is a one-joke movie, but that joke still has a little bit of relative bite in its fangs.

★★★☆☆This fourth, and allegedly final, film in the anarchic animated vampire comedy franchise, which began in 2012 with Hotel Transylvania, benefit...

Adam Sandler and Kevin James have moved on, but the franchise maintains its gift for well-crafted, creepy silliness

Through a wearisome body-swap comedy of sorts, Count Dracula and his friends return with no Adam Sandler and significantly fewer laughs.

As a wise man once said, “Bleh, bleh, bleh.”