In addition to his many silly live-action comedies with a decidedly adult bent, Adam Sandler helped create and popularize a franchise of movies just as wacky as his usual stuff, only brightly animated, made with a family-friendly audience in mind, and about familiar monsters and supernatural beings.
In the first "Hotel Transylvania," Count Dracula welcomes friends like the Mummy and the Invisible Man to his spooky resort, only for a human named Johnny to accidentally show up and fall in love with the vampire's daughter, Mavis. After a couple more adventures, the "Hotel Transylvania" monster gang is back (albeit without Sandler in the lead role) in the direct-to-Prime feature "Transformania," once again dealing with the uneasy relationship between humans and monsters. Legendary monster hunter Van Helsing devises an invention that turns Dracula and the other monsters into humans and regular guy Johnny into a monster, making for a wild switcheroo and a scramble to undo the effects, lest the transformation permanently take effect.
- Starring: Brian Hull, Selena Gomez, Andy Samberg
- Director: Derek Drymon and Jennifer Kluska
- Year: 2022
- Runtime: 88 minutes
- Rating: PG
- Rotten Tomatoes score: 52%
