It seems that horror was
the big theme for animations last year with the disappointing
Frankenweenie (2012), the surprisingly good ParaNorman (2012) and this one right here. Dracula wants to protect his daughter from
the nasty humans, so he builds a huge castle in middle of a haunted
forest far away from the humans. The castle acts as a sanctuary for
all the monsters of the world and kind of a resort where they can
come to relax from the human lynch mobs. However on his daughters
118th birthday a human boy discovers the castle and the
calm peaceful place gets all stirred up. This movie sure takes its
time to start up, it's only around 90 minutes long but about half way
in I was pretty much bored to death. Luckily then it gets going for a
while only to come crashing down in the end. Had the comedy and
entertainment been on the level of the first 20 or so minutes of the
second half, this would have been a great movie. But unfortunately it
isn't. The only thing that kept me from falling asleep were the
references to old horror movies, but then again most of them were so
simple even they got quite tedious after a while. Surprisingly Adam
Sandler wasn't annoying as Dracula and Steve Buscemi was great as
Wayne the wolf. Voice acting was actually quite good in this one, so
a definite plus for that. Too bad the movie wasn't on the same level.
If you're looking to watch one of these new animated horror comedies,
watch ParaNorman, it's by far the best of them.
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