Hotel Transylvania 3: Summer Vacation

About Hotel Transylvania 3: Summer Vacation – Film

Hotel Transylvania 3: Summer Vacation Film Details

Hotel Transylvania 3: Summer Vacation (released internationally as Hotel Transylvania 3: A Monster Vacation or simply Hotel Transylvania 3 as marketed on home release) is a 2018 American animated monster comedy film produced by Sony Pictures Animation and distributed by Sony Pictures Releasing. It is the third installment in the Hotel Transylvania franchise and the sequel to Hotel Transylvania 2 (2015), it was directed by Genndy Tartakovsky, written by Tartakovsky and Michael McCullers, and features Adam Sandler, Andy Samberg, Selena Gomez, Kevin James, Fran Drescher, Steve Buscemi, Molly Shannon, Sadie Sandler, David Spade, Keegan-Michael Key, Asher Blinkoff and Mel Brooks reprising their roles, with new additions to the cast including Jim Gaffigan, Kathryn Hahn, Joe Jonas, Chrissy Teigen, Joe Whyte, Tara Strong and Tartakovsky, while Chris Parnell, who voiced The Fly in the first two films, voices Stan. In the film, Dracula finds love with a ship captain named Ericka while embarks on a vacation on a luxury cruise liner with his family and friends, but Mavis later discovers that Ericka is actually the great-granddaughter of Abraham Van Helsing, Drac’s arch-nemesis who secretly plan to destroy them.

Discussions for a third Hotel Transylvania film began following its second film release and was announced in November 2015 to be released on September 21, 2018 before being pushed forward for a July 2018 release date. Despite initially leaving the franchise due to his work on Can You Imagine? before eventually being shelved, Tartakovsky confirmed his return in June 2016 after receiving inspiration from a “miserable” family vacation and the Chevy Chase National Lampoon’s Vacation movies. McCullers was brought on board to write the film, while the rest of the voice cast, including Sandler, Samberg, and Gomez, reprised their roles. The official title was revealed in November 2017.

Hotel Transylvania 3: Summer Vacation premiered at the Annecy International Animated Film Festival on June 13, 2018, and was theatrically released in the United States on July 13. The film received mixed reviews from critics and grossed $528 million worldwide against a budget of $65–80 million, making it the highest-grossing film in the Hotel Transylvania series, and Sony Pictures Animation’s highest-grossing fully animated film until it was overtaken by Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse (2023). It was also the final film in the franchise to feature Adam Sandler and Kevin James as Dracula and Frankenstein, respectively, as Brian Hull and Brad Abrell both replaced them for the next and final installment, Hotel Transylvania: Transformania, which was released on January 14, 2022.

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STORY

Back in 1897, Dracula and his friends travel in disguise on a train to Budapest. However, Dracula’s arch-nemesis Professor Abraham Van Helsing boards the train and unveils the monsters; the monsters escape by climbing through the roof, and Dracula pushes his friends off the train for their safety. Van Helsing becomes obsessed with destroying Dracula, but is constantly outsmarted by him.

In the present day, one year after the second film, Drac is running his hotel business smoothly with Mavis and Johnny. Drac is depressed that he has remained single since his wife Martha’s death despite his attempts to meet someone. Misinterpreting this as stress from overwork, Mavis books a cruise so they can all take a break and spend more time together as a family. Drac, Johnny, Mavis, Dennis, Vlad, and the hotel guests board a cruise ship called Legacy. Drac sees the ship’s human captain, Ericka, and falls in love with her at first sight, something that he thought was impossible as he had already “zinged” before.

Ericka afterwards goes to a private and secret room on the lower decks where she meets up with Abraham Van Helsing, secretly her great-grandfather. Van Helsing has almost entirely mechanized his body to avoid death, and has a plan to eliminate all the monsters: on the cruise’s arrival at the lost city of Atlantis, he will use an Instrument of Destruction in Atlantis’ ruins. Van Helsing makes Ericka promise to not assassinate Dracula beforehand, but she makes repeated unsuccessful attempts to do so anyway. Drac’s friends hear Ericka complain about her inability to get him and misinterpret this as a sign of affection. Drac nervously asks Ericka out on a date, and she accepts since she sees this as another opportunity to kill him. As they dine on a deserted island, Ericka unexpectedly begins to fall in love with Drac, after they learn about each other’s pasts where they lost their loved ones – for Drac, it was his beloved wife Martha and for Ericka, it was her parents.

Mavis discovers her father is interested in Ericka and becomes suspicious of Ericka’s motives. The cruise ship reaches Atlantis, which has been converted into a casino. Drac decides to tell Mavis the truth about Ericka but gets distracted seeing Ericka enter an underground crypt. Drac follows her, with Mavis not far behind, and learns that Ericka is after a “family heirloom”. With Dracula’s help, she evades the booby traps around the object and escapes. Mavis arrives and confronts them, and Dracula confesses that he “zinged” with Ericka, to Mavis’ surprise and confusion. After Ericka is told what a “zing” is, her inner guilt about lying to Drac forces her to reject his feelings for her, leaving Drac heartbroken and Mavis feeling guilty.

A regretful Ericka gives Van Helsing the Instrument of Destruction and he sets a trap for the monsters at a dance party. Noticing that Drac is still depressed about Ericka, Mavis takes advice from Johnny and tells her father to talk to Ericka, admitting that she was afraid of him leaving her, which allays Drac’s fears. Van Helsing shows up and pushes away the DJ and a saddened Ericka is forced to reveal that she is his great-granddaughter. Van Helsing unveils the Instrument of Destruction—a case for a music note sheet—and plays a song that drives a friendly Kraken living near the island to attack the monsters. Drac tries to stop the evil Kraken, but gets injured. Ericka saves Drac from the evil Kraken and pleads with her great-grandfather to stop the destruction, confessing her love for Drac. This infuriates Van Helsing, and he attacks them both.

To pacify the evil Kraken, Johnny opens up a portable DJ kit and plays positive songs to beat Van Helsing’s song. Upon playing the “Macarena”, the Kraken is relaxed and happy for good. Van Helsing is unable to counter the song as the humans and monsters begins to dance, including the music sheet, which rips itself to pieces during the process. When Van Helsing also dances, he accidentally slips and falls, but Drac saves him. Touched by the act of kindness, Van Helsing apologizes to the monsters and gives everybody a full refund for the cruise, before sending them back.

Back at the hotel, Drac proposes to Ericka, who gets tongue-tied at the question before accepting.

CAST

Adam Sandler as Count “Drac” Dracula, Mavis’ father, Count Vlad’s youngest son, and Dennis’ maternal grandfather. Centuries after the demise of his beloved wife Martha, he ultimately falls for a human woman and proposes to her.
Selena Gomez as Mavis Dracula, Drac’s daughter, Johnny’s wife, and Dennis’ vampire mother, from whom he inherited his vampire abilities which he first developed on his fifth birthday, as do all pureblood vampires.
Andy Samberg as Jonathan “Johnny” Loughran, Mavis’ husband, Dracula’s son-in-law, and Dennis’ human father.
Kathryn Hahn as Ericka Van Helsing, the captain of the Legacy cruise, Dracula’s love interest, and the great granddaughter of Abraham Van Helsing.
Jim Gaffigan as Professor Abraham Van Helsing, Ericka’s great grandfather and Dracula’s former rival.
Kevin James as Frankenstein, Drac’s friend who hangs with Murray.
David Spade as Griffin, Drac, Frank, Wayne and Murray’s invisible friend.
Steve Buscemi as Wayne, a werewolf who is friends with Drac, Frank, Murray and Griffin.
Keegan-Michael Key as Murray, a mummy who hangs with Frank. Murray was previously voiced by CeeLo Green in the first film.
Molly Shannon as Wanda, Wayne’s werewolf wife who is friends with Eunice.
Fran Drescher as Eunice, Frank’s wife who is friends with Wanda.
Asher Blinkoff as Dennis “Dennisovitch” Dracula-Loughran, Mavis and Johnny’s dhampir son, Dracula’s grandson, and Winnie’s love interest. He has his mother’s blue eyes and extraordinarily strong vampire abilities, and his father’s orange hair and freckles.
Sadie Sandler as Winnie, the werewolf daughter of Wayne and Wanda. She is Dennis’ best friend and mutual love interest. She is later voiced by Zoe Berri in the next film.
Mel Brooks as Count Vlad, an ancient, more experienced and traditional vampire who is Dracula’s father, the late Martha’s father-in-law, Mavis’ paternal grandfather, Jonathan’s grandfather-in-law, and Dennis’s maternal great-grandfather. Since the end of the third movie, he is Ericka’s father-in-law.
Chris Parnell as Stan, a fish-man that works on the Legacy. Parnell previously voiced The Fly in the first two films.
Joe Whyte as:
- Tinkles, Dennis’ giant pet puppy.
- Bob, one of the Gremlins who works as a co-pilot on Gremlins’ airlines.
Joe Jonas as Kraken, a giant music-loving sea monster that lives near Atlantis.
Chrissy Teigen as Crystal, an invisible woman who is Griffin’s new girlfriend.
Genndy Tartakovsky as:
- Blobby, a green blob monster. He was previously voiced by Jonny Solomon in Hotel Transylvania 2.
- Blobby Baby, a spawn of Blobby.
- Puppy Blobby, Blobby Baby’s pet and another spawn of Blobby.
Tara Strong as Frankenlady (voiced by Alison Hammond and credited as Frankenginger in the UK release), a female whose right arm is related to Frank from his right hand’s side of the family.
Jaime Camil as El Chupacabra, a passenger on the Legacy.

PRODUCTION

Development

In September 2015, Michelle Murdocca, the film’s producer, said before the second film’s release that the studio was “talking about number 3 and moving forward and taking the franchise to the next level,” but thought that she and director Genndy Tartakovsky would not return, since they were working on Tartakovsky’s Can You Imagine? before that project was later shelved. That same month, Tartakovsky stated that he will not return for the sequel, specifying to TheWrap that “two is enough. I have a lot of other ideas, and I kind of have to express them and have them come out.” In November 2015, Sony Pictures Animation announced that the third film, under the tentative title of Hotel Transylvania 3, had been set for release on September 21, 2018.

Despite leaving the series, Tartakovsky later announced that he would return as the director for the third installment. Adam Sandler, Selena Gomez, and Andy Samberg also reprised their previous roles, as Dracula, Mavis, and Johnny, respectively, and the film was written by Tartakovsky and Austin Powers writer Michael McCullers. In June 2016, Sony also confirmed Tartakovsky’s return, after his taking a leave of absence to work on the final season of his show Samurai Jack. According to Tartakovsky, he returned after he received inspiration from a “miserable” family vacation, and from the Chevy Chase National Lampoon’s Vacation movies, as the film takes place aboard a cruise ship. By early November 2017, the film had been entitled Hotel Transylvania 3: Summer Vacation.

One of the biggest challenges for the animation team was creating the massive Kraken character and simulating the water effects and destruction caused by the massive creature.