Hotel Transylvania (2012)

Director:

Genndy Tartakovsky

Writers:

Peter Baynham (screenplay) and
Robert Smigel (screenplay) ...
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Release Date:

28 September 2012 (USA)

Genre:

Animation | Comedy | Family

Tagline:

Where monsters go to get away from it all

Plot:

Dracula, who operates a high-end resort away from the human world, goes into overprotective mode when a boy discovers the resort and falls for the count's teen-aged daughter.

Plot Keywords:

Monster | Dracula | Hotel | Mummy | Invisible Man

Awards:

Nominated for Golden Globe. Another 3 wins & 11 nominations

Cast

Adam Sandler	...	Dracula (voice)
Andy Samberg	...	Jonathan (voice)
Selena Gomez	...	Mavis (voice)
Kevin James	...	Frankenstein (voice)
Fran Drescher	...	Eunice (voice)
Steve Buscemi	...	Wayne (voice)
Molly Shannon	...	Wanda (voice)
David Spade	...	Griffin (voice)
CeeLo Green	...	Murray (voice)
Jon Lovitz	...	Quasimodo (voice)
Brian George	...	Suit of Armor (voice)
Luenell	...	Shrunken Heads (voice)
Brian Stack	...	Pilot (voice)
Chris Parnell	...	Fly (voice)
Jackie Sandler	...	Martha (voice)
Sadie Sandler	...	Winnie / Young Mavis (voice)
Robert Smigel	...	Fake Dracula / Marty (voice)
Rob Riggle	...	Skeleton Husband (voice)
Paul Brittain	...	Zombie / Hydra (voice)
Jonny Solomon	...	Gremlin Man / Hydra (voice)
Jim Wise	...	Shruken Head / Hydra (voice)
Craig Kellman	...	Guy in Crowd / Hydra (voice)
Brian McCann	...	Hairy Monster / Hydra (voice)
James C.J. Williams	...	Foreman (voice)
Rose Abdoo	...	Additional Voices (voice)
Steve Alterman	...	Additional Voices (voice)
Kirk Baily	...	Additional Voices (voice)
Dana Belben	...	Additional Voices (voice)
Meira Blinkoff	...	Additional Voices (voice)
Ranjani Brow	...	Additional Voices (voice)
Corey Burton	...	Additional Voices (voice)
William Calvert	...	Additional Voices (voice)
Cam Clarke	...	Additional Voices (voice)
Michael Corbett	...	Additional Voices (voice)
Allen Covert	...	Additional Voices (voice)
Rachel Crane	...	Additional Voices (voice)
Doug Dale	...	Additional Voices (voice)
Collin Dean	...	Additional Voices (voice)
Eddie Frierson	...	Additional Voices (voice)
Bridget Hoffman	...	Additional Voices (voice)
Wendy Hoffman	...	Additional Voices (voice)
Rif Hutton	...	Additional Voices (voice)
Tom Kenny	...	Additional Voices (voice)
Darrin Lackey	...	Additional Voices (voice)
Ashley Lambert	...	Additional Voices (voice)
Scott Menville	...	Additional Voices (voice)
Edie Mirman	...	Additional Voices (voice)
Jon Olson	...	Additional Voices (voice)
Jessica Pennington	...	Additional Voices (voice)
Alec Rosenthal	...	Additional Voices (voice)
Judith Sandler	...	Additional Voices (voice)
Sunny Sandler	...	Additional Voices (voice)
Katie Silverman	...	Additional Voices (voice)
Warren Sroka	...	Additional Voices (voice)
Melissa Sturm	...	Additional Voices (voice)
John Hans Tester	...	Additional Voices (voice)
Sarah Thyre	...	Additional Voices (voice)
Chris Titone	...	Additional Voices (voice)
David Zyler	...	Additional Voices (voice)

Directed by
Genndy Tartakovsky

Writing credits
Peter Baynham		(screenplay) and
Robert Smigel		(screenplay)
Todd Durham		(story) and
Dan Hageman		(story) &
Kevin Hageman		(story)

Produced by
Lydia Bottegoni	....	co-producer
Michelle Murdocca	....	producer
Adam Sandler	....	executive producer
Robert Smigel	....	executive producer

Original Music by
Mark Mothersbaugh		(music by)

Film Editing by
Catherine Apple

Casting by
Mary Hidalgo

Production Design by
Marcelo Vignali

Art Direction by
Ron Lukas
Noelle Triaureau

Production Management
Mary Ellen Bauder	....	production manager
Lawrence Jonas	....	associate production manager
Michael Killoren	....	associate production manager
Lea Lambert	....	digital production manager
Keith Luczywo	....	associate production manager
Kevin Noel	....	associate production manager
Jeff Deckman	....	associate production manager (uncredited)
Briana Ryan	....	production manager (uncredited)

Art Department
Bryan Andrews	....	storyboard artist
Andrew Erekson	....	storyboard artist
Kasey Fagerquist	....	art department coordinator
Glenn Harmon	....	storyboard artist
Elizabeth Ito	....	storyboard artist
Colin Jack	....	storyboard artist
Michael Kurinsky	....	visual development artist
Kris Pearn	....	storyboard artist
Troy Quane	....	storyboard artist
Fergal Reilly	....	storyboard artist
Armand Serrano	....	visual development
Mike Smukavic	....	storyboard artist
Rebecca Sugar	....	storyboard artist

Sound Department
Tom Burns	....	re-recordist
Jason George	....	supervising sound editor
Jeffrey J. Haboush	....	additional re-recording mixer
Robin Harlan	....	foley artist
Howard London	....	adr mixer
Sarah Monat	....	foley artist
Tom Myers	....	sound re-recording mixer
Geoffrey G. Rubay	....	supervising sound editor
Randy Singer	....	foley mixer
Lucy Sustar	....	foley editor

Visual Effects by
Adel Abada	....	senior lighting technical director
Lia Abbate	....	production infrastructure
Jon Aghassian	....	visual effects
Neil Atkins	....	senior cloth/hair technical director: SPI
Alison Middaugh Barger	....	cloth & hair: Sony Pictures Imageworks
James Battersby	....	visual development artist
Chad Belteau	....	senior rigger, lighter, and compositor
Mannix Bennett	....	senior matte painter: Sony Pictures Imageworks
Shane Birdsill	....	technical production coordinator: SPI
Brian Blasiak	....	senior lighting and compositing technical director
Chris Bolwyn	....	visual effects artist
Tim Brandt	....	look development artist
Alyssa Brule	....	stereoscopic camera layout artist
Tom Bruno Jr.	....	senior character animator: SPI
Tom Bruno Jr.	....	senior layout artist: SPI
Maxx Burman	....	matte painter
François Chardavoine	....	pipeline architect
Alan Chen	....	technical director: lighting lead
Sun Chung	....	senior matte painter
Tim Coleman	....	character setup supervisor
David Conlon	....	look development lead
Simon Corbaux	....	cloth and hair technical director
Nicolle Cornute	....	texture painter
Dan Cox	....	senior td: Sony Imageworks
Gregory Culp	....	lighting and compositing technical director
Larry Danielle	....	senior production services technician
Larry Danielle	....	texture painter
Marc-Andre Davignon	....	software engineer
Natalie DeJohn	....	visual effects coordinator
Stefano Di Noia	....	lighting & compositing artist
Benjamin Dines	....	digital resource manager
Yann Dupont	....	senior technical director: lighting
Scott Englert	....	character technical director
Daniel Erickson	....	final layout artist
Daniel Erickson	....	stereo 3D technical director
Paul Fedor	....	senior technical artist
Benjamin Fiske	....	effects technical director
Richard Forman	....	senior production services technician
Pooya Ghobadpour	....	lighting and compositing technical director
David Godwin	....	visual effects artist: Sony Pictures Imageworks
Larry Gritz	....	rendering engineer
Dan Gutierrez	....	training & artist development
Brian Hall	....	software supervisor
Jeremy Harger	....	lighting and compositing technical director
Dan Haring	....	lighting and compositing technical director
Alan Hawkins	....	animator
Joseph Hayden	....	lighting & compositing technical director
Mel Hayes II	....	shot lighter
Thomas Helman	....	visual effects artist
Karl Herbst	....	CG supervisor
Dark Hoffman	....	digital matte painter
Andrew Hofman	....	digital effects artist
John Hood	....	character pipeline supervisor
Rob House	....	senior technical director: cloth & hair
Dave R. Howe	....	senior lighting and compositing technical director: SPI
Amanda Hui	....	animation coordinator
Mark Hulshult	....	senior production services technician
Chris Hung	....	senior technical director
Adnan Hussain	....	senior cloth and hair technical director
Rod Ibanez	....	CG supervisor
Katya Isichenko	....	cloth and hair technical director
Pasha Ivanov	....	visual effects
Chris Jolly	....	lighter/compositor
Chris Jolly	....	visual effects artist
Joey Kadin	....	resource specialist
David Kalbeitzer	....	digital producer
Nori Kaneko	....	texture paint supervisor
Yiotis Katsambas	....	pre-production pipeline supervisor
Miku Kayama	....	senior color and lighting technical director
Chris Kazmier	....	senior effects technical director
Blaine Kennison	....	senior lighting and compositing technical director: SPI
Lee Kerley	....	senior shader writer
Kevin Kitchel	....	effects technical director
Apryl Knobbe	....	lead matte painter
Stephen Kowalski	....	systems engineering supervisor
Daniel Kramer	....	visual effects supervisor
Mark Krentz	....	model supervisor
Marissa Krupen	....	matte painter
Martin Kumor	....	senior pipeline technical director
Louisa Kwan	....	digital production manager
Michael La Fave	....	senior visual effects technical director: SPI
Lauren Lanster	....	production services technician
Mike Lasker	....	look development lead
Claire Lawrence-Slater	....	cloth and hair technical director
Michelle Ledesma	....	visual effects coordinator
David Jinyoo Lee	....	senior production services technician
Kang Sub Lee	....	senior lighting and compositing technical director: Sony Pictures Imageworks
Shun Sing Edward Lee	....	senior lighting and compositing technical director
Michael Levine	....	senior cloth and hair technical director
Mark Lipsmeyer	....	hair and cloth technical director
Richard Liukis	....	digital lighting and compositing artist
George Longo	....	modeler: Imageworks
Sean Looper	....	software engineer: SPI
Skye Lyons	....	digital producer
Wendy Mashburn	....	artist management
Will McCrate	....	digital artist
Jennifer McKnew	....	texture painter: SPI
David B. Menkes	....	lighting lead: SPI
Sarah Moore	....	lighting & compositing: SPI
Frank Mueller	....	character setup lead
Enrique Munoz	....	lighting technical director and look development
Alex Murtaza	....	senior matte painter
Adil Mustafabekov	....	matte painter: SPI
Chris Nabholz	....	senior lighting technical director: SPI
Ricardo Nadu	....	cloth and hair technical director
Adele Ng	....	lighting/compositing artist
Adrian Tehao Niu	....	senior character technical director
Christopher L. Nolan	....	modeler
Ellery Ortiz	....	stereo layout artist
Andrea Lackey Pace	....	resource manager
Viviana Palacios	....	senior lighting artist: Sony Imageworks, Vancouver
Scott Palleiko	....	senior lighting technical director: SPI
James Parente	....	cloth and hair technical director
John Patrick	....	technical director
The-Hung Quach	....	texture painter
Winston Quitasol	....	senior lighting technical director: SPI
Arun Ram-Mohan	....	lead lighting artist
Matthew Rampias	....	technical director: lighting & compositing
J. Robert Ray	....	software lead
Maryam Riahi	....	3D stereo artist
Sam Rickles	....	visual effects artist
Jordi Riera	....	pipeline technical director
Ryan Roberts	....	senior character rigger
Juan Carlos Moreno Rogel	....	software developer
Christopher Romano	....	visual effects
Hunter Rosenberg	....	cg modeler
Eric S. Rosenthal	....	visual effects artist
Rosendo Salazar	....	lighting lead and lookdev technical director
Richard Sandoval	....	lighting & compositing: SPI
Nobuteru Sasagawa	....	character and environment modeler
Brian D. Scott	....	supervising animator
Alvaro Segura	....	visual effects artist
Jeremy Selan	....	software supervisor
Sheldon Serrao	....	effects cloth and hair technical director: Sony Imageworks
Vincent Serritella	....	effects animation supervisor
Sameer Shah	....	matte painter
Dan Sheerin	....	technical animation supervisor
Brian Silva	....	senior lighting and compositing technical director
Jason Simmons	....	senior effects technical director: Sony Pictures Imageworks
Ed Siomacco Jr.	....	cloth lead
Sharmishtha Sohoni	....	senior lighting and compositing technical director
John C. Sparks	....	senior visual effects artist: Sony Imageworks
Sungwook Su	....	visual effects artist
Prapanch Swamy	....	senior lighting and compositing technical director: Sony Pictures Imageworks
Kaz Tanaka	....	color scientist
Kaz Tanaka	....	development specialist
Martin Tardif	....	senior lighting technical director: Sony Pictures Imageworks
Peter Tieryas	....	character technical director
Daniel Tiesling	....	senior production services technician
Jon Tojek	....	cloth & hair: SPI
Jon Tojek	....	lighting & compositing artist: SPI
Messrob Torikian	....	final layout
Quan Tran	....	senior lighting technical director: Sony Pictures Imageworks
Ellen Trinh	....	lighting and compositing technical director
Scott G. Trosclair	....	senior technical director: lighting, Sony Pictures
Ryan Tulloch	....	lighting and compositing technical director
Corey Turner	....	consulting stereographer
Mehul Upadhyay	....	senior production service technician
Paul Van Camp	....	senior fx artist: SPI
Nooshin Vegh	....	digital production manager
Joe Viola	....	lighting and compositing technical director
Eric Voegels	....	cloth & hair artist: SPI
Chris Waegner	....	cg supervisor
John B. Wallace	....	texture painter: SPI
Jerry Weil	....	senior lighting and compositing technical director: SPI
John Welborn	....	software engineer: SPI
Marc Wilhite	....	character rigger
Stephen Winters	....	production services technician
Yezi Xue	....	lighting and compositing technical director
Taigne Hammock	....	resource administrator (uncredited)
Hannah K. Lees	....	cloth & hair: Sony Pictures Imageworks (uncredited)
Kaitlyn Peplow	....	cloth and hair technical director (uncredited)
Joseph Rosensteel	....	senior lighting and compositing technical director (uncredited)
Jeremie Winslow	....	digital production manager: Sony Pictures Imageworks (uncredited)

Animation Department
Jason Behr	....	animator
Manuel Bover	....	animator
Shad Bradbury	....	animator
Wee Brian	....	senior character animator
Sebastien Bruneau	....	senior animator
Kathryn Burns	....	storyboard coordinator
Dug Calder	....	senior animator
Lang-Willar Chloe	....	animator
John Clark	....	layout supervisor
John Clark	....	previs artist
Shawn Clark	....	animator
Mathew Cowie	....	lead animator
James Crossley	....	senior animation supervisor
Frédéric Côté	....	senior animator
Patrick Danaher	....	animator
Thierry DiDonna	....	animator
Todd Elliott	....	animator
Chad Ellis	....	senior animator
Martín Esnaola	....	animator
Mathilde Fabry	....	animator
Cristina Falcon	....	senior character animator
Eva Fan	....	animator
Jean-Dominique Fievet	....	senior animator
Kristy Lynn Fortier	....	animation coordinator
Gianluca Fratellini	....	senior animator
Jorge Garcia	....	animator
Carter Goodrich	....	character designer
Vincent Gorman	....	animator
Carlos Grangel	....	character designer
Lennie Graves	....	senior character animator
Phillip Hall	....	animator
Bill Haller	....	supervising character animator
Chad Hammer	....	background artist
Boris Hiestand	....	senior animator
Yannick Honore	....	senior animator
Eric Huang	....	animator
James Humphries	....	animator
Mike Jahnke	....	animator
Mack Kablan	....	animator
Craig Kellman	....	character designer
Josh Kent	....	animator
Jeff Kim	....	animator
Stefan Klauss	....	animator
Kevin Koch	....	senior character animator
Keiko Koyama	....	animation apm
Sheldon Kruger	....	animator
Jin Kum	....	animator
Callum LaPrairie	....	animator
Francois Laurent	....	animator
Yuri Lementy	....	animator
Letia Lewis	....	layout artist
Christopher Dennis Lindsay	....	senior character animator
Michael Loeck	....	animator
Donnie Long	....	head of story
Julio Lorenzo	....	senior animator
Dave Mah	....	animator
Jason Malinowsky	....	animator
Jason Martinsen	....	animator
Matthew Meyer	....	character animator
John Monos	....	shading supervisor
Valerie Morrison	....	animator
Sean Mullen	....	head of story
David Nasser	....	senior character animator
Ellery Ortiz	....	final layout artist
Ryan Page	....	senior character animator
Jeff Panko	....	lead animator
J.Q. Park	....	animator
Noah Peterson	....	character effects animator
Tim Pixton	....	senior character animator
Melanie Plett	....	animator
Daniel Pozo	....	character animator
Eric Prebende	....	animator
Eric Provan	....	lead character modeler
Athavan Rajaratnam	....	senior animator
Ryan Rasmussen	....	animator
Donald Reich	....	senior layout artist
Josh Riley	....	animator
In-Ah Roediger	....	senior animator
Philip Rudolph	....	senior animator
Kailin Ryan	....	animation coordinator
Marcelo Sakai	....	animator
P. Kevin Scott	....	crowd animation lead
Matthew Shepherd	....	animator
Benson Shum	....	senior character animator
Alexander Snow	....	animator
Zachary Torok	....	animator
John Vassallo	....	animator
Jorge Vigara	....	senior character animator
Kelsey Wagner	....	animator
Darren R. Webb	....	story artist
Kevin Webb	....	lead animator
Geoff Wheeler	....	senior animator
David Wiezer	....	layout artist
James C.J. Williams	....	layout supervisor
Mitch Yager	....	animator
Ryan Yee	....	senior animator
Daniele Zannone	....	animator
Kasey Fagerquist	....	animation coordinator (uncredited)

Editorial Department
Ryan Helsley	....	digital intermediate producer
Andrew Leviton	....	assistant editor
John Persichetti	....	digital colorist
Nolan Southerland	....	assistant editor
Benjamin Sutor	....	on-line editor
Mark Yeager	....	second editor
Jim Passon	....	color timer (uncredited)

Music Department
Richard Bronskill	....	orchestrator
Gordon Davidson	....	scoring pro tools engineer
Andrew Dorfman	....	music editor
Isobel Griffiths	....	orchestral contractor
Christopher Guardino	....	orchestrator
John Kurlander	....	music recording engineer
John Kurlander	....	score mixer
Justin Michael La Vallee	....	song arranger
Liza Richardson	....	music supervisor
James T. Sale	....	orchestrator: conductor
Ben Schor	....	music consultant
Jorge Velasco	....	scoring pro tools engineer
Ed Woolley	....	score mix assistant engineer

Other crew
Vinicio Alvarez	....	resource administrator
Devin Anderson	....	layout coordinator
Devin Anderson	....	production coordinator
Grant Blaylock	....	assistant to director/production coordinator
Johnny Cardona	....	first assistant production accountant
Jason Christopher	....	production coordinator: story/editorial
Shelli Rae Coppoolse	....	production coordinator
Gino Falsetto	....	assistant: kevin james
Matt Forman	....	assistant production accountant
Jim Harnish	....	systems administrator
Daniel Kepler	....	main titles: production coordinator
Dave Krieger	....	software developer
Michael Lachance	....	studio executive
Jenna Lowhorn	....	production staff
Jan McCrea	....	coordinator
David Midgen	....	titles producer
Daamun Mohseni	....	title and credits animator
Rosanna Server	....	senior recruiter
Jessica E. Smialek	....	post production coordinator
Michael Sullivan	....	production assistant
Leanne K. Tanizawa	....	production coordinator
Judy Thomason	....	production staff

Production Companies

• Columbia Pictures (presents)
• Sony Pictures Animation

Distributors

• Andes Films (2012) (Peru) (theatrical)
• Columbia Pictures (2012) (Philippines) (theatrical)
• Columbia Pictures (2012) (USA) (theatrical)
• Columbia TriStar Warner Filmes de Portugal (2012) (Portugal) (theatrical)
• Distribuye Movie (2012) (Uruguay) (theatrical)
• Feelgood Entertainment (2012) (Greece) (theatrical)
• Sony Pictures Entertainment (2012) (Japan) (theatrical)
• Sony Pictures Filmverleih (2012) (Austria) (theatrical)
• Sony Pictures Releasing (2012) (Belgium) (theatrical)
• Sony Pictures Releasing (2012) (Germany) (theatrical)
• Sony Pictures Releasing (2013) (France) (theatrical)
• Sony Pictures Releasing (2012) (Netherlands) (theatrical)
• Sony Pictures Releasing (2012) (Singapore) (theatrical)
• Sony Pictures Releasing (2012) (Thailand) (theatrical)
• Sony Pictures Releasing (2012) (USA) (theatrical)
• United International Pictures (UIP) (2012) (Argentina) (theatrical)
• Feelgood Entertainment (2013) (Greece) (DVD) (Blu-ray) (3D)
• Sony Pictures Home Entertainment (2013) (Germany) (DVD)
• Sony Pictures Home Entertainment (2013) (USA) (DVD)
• Sony Pictures Home Entertainment (2013) (USA) (DVD) (Blu-ray)

Special Effects

• Sony Pictures Imageworks (SPI)

Other Companies

• Picture Mill, The  main & end titles

Also Known As:

"Monster Hotel" - Japan (English title) (imdb display title)

MPAA:

Rated PG for some rude humor, action and scary images

Runtime:

91 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color | Black and White

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Sound Mix:

SDDS | Datasat | Dolby Digital

Certification:

USA:PG (certificate #45411) | Ireland:PG | UK:U | Philippines:G | Australia:PG | Singapore:PG | Sweden:7 | Norway:7 | Japan:G | South Korea:All | Mexico:AA | Portugal:M/6 | Argentina:Atp | Netherlands:6 | India:U/A | Hong Kong:II | Germany:6 | France:U | Switzerland:8

Company:

Columbia Pictures

Trivia:

Among the decorations on the wall of Mavis' room is a poster that very clearly resembles her real life voice, Selena Gomez.

Goofs:

Factual errors: The Air Transylvania airliner raises its landing gear much later than it normally would. Typically the gear is raised right after the plane is safely airborne.

Quotes:

Eunice:English, please! Your voice is REALLY annnoying!

Movie Connections:

Featured in The 70th Annual Golden Globe Awards (2013) (TV)

Soundtrack:

Shining Alegria

Adorable Family Film

The, I think, is a movie that is fun for the whole family. Youngsters will like the characters, the older children will enjoy the jokes and plot, and the adults will likely enjoy the movie as well, being able to catch on to the more "adult" funny references and a story about a father-daughter relationship that can be appreciated.

The movie is fairly fast paced, but most cartoons are, especially ones that are just 91 minutes long. If you're planning to take your 3 year old to appreciate the plot, connect with the characters, and understand the meaning of family and love... that's not happening... it is a children's movie but it's not Sesame Street.

My husband and I took our 2 1/2 year old because it seemed like a cute movie to watch. It was. Our son sat through the entire movie and danced with the music, etc. We enjoyed it as well.

Was it EXTRAORDINARY? No. Was it a good, fun family film? Yes.

I would recommend it. If you're unsure about paying for a ticket at the theater, you can always wait for the DVD to come out.