Hotel Transylvania 4 is a series of craziness that only occasionally hits the spot ★★☆☆☆

Count Dracula, ‘Dragon’ to his friends, is about to retire. In daughter Mavis he sees an excellent successor as manager of his monster hotel in the heart of Transylvania. He is less enthusiastic about his son-in-law Johnny. This is due to his plans for a thorough renovation of the hotel, but the mistrust certainly also has to do with his origin: Johnny is a human being, not a monster.

The upside-down world of Hotel Transylvania, in which monsters make people shudder, has produced three pretty nice (and very lucrative) animated films since 2012. Director Genndy Tartakovsky thought that was enough and thanked him for the fourth film, as did actor Adam Sandler, who did not feel like doing the voice of Count Dracula again.

Wise decisions. Hotel Transylvania 4: Upside down (the original title is Transformania) proves that a successful formula does not stay fresh forever. The film is a succession of craziness that only occasionally hits the mark. Where the emphasis on family ties in the previous parts still functioned as cement between the jokes, the relationship between Dracula, Mavis and Johnny is poorly this time. Too many minor characters claim a place in the film, which overloads the viewer with stimuli and yet cannot hold the attention. After fifteen minutes hyperactive shit seems Hotel Transylvania 4: Upside down to last for hours.

The message is also not very convincing. Of course, it’s not good to have prejudices about people. But Count Dracula is just right in this case: Johnny is also terribly annoying. The ‘Johnnification’ of Hotel Transylvania sounds like a horror, not a future that we have to accept.