3/5
Totally gotta admit, I was expecting SO much worse out of this. Especially since we saw Andy Samberg and Adam Sandler in a movie that fell flat on its face earlier this year. It looked mildly funny, mostly annoying, and silly. The only saving grace was that it was from Sony Animation, the studio that gave us Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs...but also gave us The Smurfs. So basically, not much to expect. Maybe that's what saved it. Just like Cloudy, it takes a lot of cliche's from its genre and parodies them in a nice, simple and effective way. That leaves it satisfying to both adults and kids. Where this movie fails is perhaps too many fart and simple jokes, unlike Cloudy where there was a really nice balance. But the voice cast was nice and fun, I liked the fun punches at the horror genre, the story was simple but fun and silly. I really loved the relationship developing between Dracula and Johnny, and the idea of humans loving monsters today, with a particularly funny jab at Twilight. It's a fun movie and would actually be a fun date movie. In fact my girlfriend really seemed to enjoy it. It's definitely worth a watch.
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