Endeavoring to bring a world of monsters to the CGI-animated realm, 2012’s “Hotel Transylvania” conjured a horror-comedy atmosphere of slapstick, scares, and overall tomfoolery. And there was plenty of bathroom humor to keep younger audiences engaged. Instead of trusting the inherent madness of the plot, director Genndy Tartakovsky elected to keep things crude, souring an otherwise promising Halloween-season adventure with classic ghouls. “Hotel Transylvania 2” is the inevitable sequel,Download Hotel Transylvania 2 movie hq, and while it suffers from major structural problems, the effort has dialed down the poo-poo, pee-pee gags, trying to engage audiences with a tale of grandfatherly love, trading fart jokes for cute kids and more manic monster shenanigans.Soon after Jonathan (Andy Samberg) and Mavis’s (Selena Gomez) wedding, the new bride finds herself pregnant, thrilling her father, Dracula (Adam Sandler). Ready to welcome a new generation of vampire into the family, Dracula is frustrated when the boy, Dennis (Asher Blinkoff), only favors his human side, unable to produce fangs and become a true bloodsucker.
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