Nope, sorry. I liked the idea and I liked the beginning, but then it became too loud and most of all they reverted to the usual thing: the first guy the girl sees in her life is her true love.. :-/ I liked the idea of the story where the protagonists are the ‘monsters’ , I liked the father-daughter relationship, specially while she was growing up and he was a single father, and I liked how he wanted to protect her keeping her at the hotel... what I didn’t like was Jonathan, always so loud, and silly stuff like the battle with the floating tables, but generally everything involving Jonathan.
The beginning was really nice, starting in 1895 when this little vampire girl is born. We see that she has no mother growing up, and since her father wants to protect her he never lets her go out and has a big castle built in a remote place surrounded by a forest of ghosts and a cemetery of undead, where nobody, that is no humans, will ever go... the sweetest scenes of the movie were of Mavis growing up. :-D
We move to our time, when Mavis is about to turn 118, which they treat as 18. Her dad Dracula plans a big birthday party, as he does every year. The castle is a hotel, a refuge for all supernaturals away from the cruel and scary humans.
The funniest scene of the movie was here, when all the guests arrive; there are all the usual ‘monsters’: there are skeletons and blobs and many others, and there is Frankenstein’s monster, but since he doesn’t really have a name and they can’t call it ‘monster’, in the movie he ‘is’ Frankenstein. There’s the wolf with his family, which consists in a lot of little wolves running around making a mess and eating everything. When the invisible man arrives, Dracula plays a little trick on him: he hands him a piece of bacon, the other wonders why until a lot of little wolves jump on him :lol:
Dracula had promised his daughter that she’d be allowed to go outside the castle, and he pretends to agree, but when she reaches the nearest village she doesn’t know that it’s actually a fake village, full of fake people - played by the zombies - because he wants her to believe that all humans are cruel and only want to burn her and kill her, so that she might lose her desire to go away.
Unfortunately for Dracula, a young human reaches the hotel, a boy who likes adventures and travels everywhere with his backpack, and everything is cool and funny to him, so when he heard of ghosts in the forest he couldn’t wait to go and see. He comes in and he thinks everything’s normal, that they all wear costumes and stuff, until he realizes they’re for real. He’s scared only for a moment, but as soon as Dracula explains that he doesn’t drink human blood he’s not scared anymore but excited for the new adventure now that his life is no more threatened. He walks around pretending to be a distant cousin of Frankenstein, and Mavis likes him. He tells her he’s 121 years old (so can we guess he’s actually 21?), and that he’s been everywhere, to ‘live the life’, blah blah blah. In this movies everything’s simple and money don’t matter, of course. The usual stuff.
The cook and his mouse understand there’s something wrong with him (meaning: he’s human) and they kidnap him (Johnny) but Dracula saves him and then tells him of his great love and of the humans who killed her, and Johnny understands and wants to go away, but Dracula says that he must go after the party or she’ll be disappointed and the party ruined.
During the party Mavis insists on going back to the village so he confesses that it doesn’t really exists. The cook reveals that Johnny’s human, and Mavis says that it doesn’t matter, she wants to be with him, but Johnny says that he hates monsters and goes away.
Mavis is sad, she thinks she’s in love with him - really, the only living thing her age in 118 years and she thinks she loves him - so Dracula asks the others for help and they try to bring Johnny back :-/
The little wolf-girl helps them: by sniffing Johnny’s shirt or something she can even say which plane he’s on... - the wolf eats all the sheep on the road to clear the path, and when they get into town.. well, they are in Transylvanya, so there’s a Monster Festival, everybody’s dressed up as one of them, everyone loves them and they clear a path for Dracula so he can move quickly, even raising their capes so he doesn’t have to fear the sunlight.
Johnny’s plane is already in the air, so Dracula has to fly in daylight, he apologises to him and has the plane turn around. He’s a little burned up but not much, considering that as a little bat he was almost on fire.
Johnny is his gift for Mavis (oh my) and it ends like this, with everybody happy. I guess after the party she’ll be allowed to go around the world with him :-/ she’s a vampire too though, does she has to avoid daylight as well? and let’s not forget that when he’ll be 90 she’ll still look like a 30-year-old :-/
The first new face she sees in maybe 100 years and she falls in love with him :-/
They exchanged only a few words, and yet she says that they ‘zing-ed’ and therefore he’s her true big love, even though they don’t really know anything about each other :-/ the usual stuff :-/
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