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Hotel Transylvania 4: Transformania

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Welcome back to Thrak Attack, what's your adventure? Today's adventure takes us to the amazon rainforest on a quest for a crystal to change humans into monsters and monsters into humans. In the 4th installment of this weirdly long running series that is the plot! Does it make sense? Is it enjoyable to watch? Are there some redeeming qualities to this series that went from theater releases to straight to streaming? We shall see.

Like I said before this is the fourth installment to the Hotel Transylvania series and I did not realize it was successful enough to make a fourth one. However, the first three were theatrical releases and this time around it was released only on Amazon Prime. Due to this, Adam Sandler is no longer the voice of the lead character Dracula but instead goes to Brian Hull who has mainly done voice acting for the Pup Star series, Tangled: the Series, and a Hotel Transylvania short film. 

There is something going for this movie though mainly that the cast is stellar and do fantastic voice acting! Sometimes I had to check who was voicing who because it wasn't immediately obvious which is a sign of great voice acting! Andy Samberg as Johnathon, Selena Gomez as Mavis, and then there's Kathryn Hahn, Jim Gaffigan, Steve Buschemi, Molly Shannon, David Spade, Keegan-Michael Key, and even Fran Drescher! The voices are really what make this movie great and was one of the reasons I kept watching. The colors and textures in the animation are also really great making it a pleasant movie to watch!

Other than that though, there isn't much else that's good. Most of the jokes fall flat (besides the zombie that gets turned back into a human, that one had me laughing). The plot is a little too simple and lots of useless chase scenes to pad the runtime (Dracula chasing Johnathon through the hallway was a 15 minute sequence I think). And finally the animation and movement of the characters just felt weird like they weren't fully animated or something. It just felt like the characters moved wrong and I think that is a style of the series but I did not enjoy it.

This is the first movie review of 2022! When I review movies they get stars for each of these categories... Cinematography, Set Design, Plot, Costuming (character design in animation's case), Music, Dialogue, Pacing, Themes, Acting, and Overall Feeling. This film gets stars for Cinematography for colors and textures in the animation, costuming due to the character designs as they transform.

Hotel Transylvania: Transformania gets 3 out of 10 stars. 

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