Film Reviews with Filmmaker on Wheels

  The fourth instalment of the series is based on the art by Genndy Tartakovsky, this time following a mishap where Drac panics about announcing his retirement and instead tells Johnny he won’t be inheriting the Hotel with Mavis as he’s a human. The plot sounds promising but to me, lacks the supernatural flair and humour the last two films had, and Drac himself is no longer played by Adam Sandler, who was a huge part of the first two films, with his then young daughter even voicing little Vampire Mavis, and his wife being the inspiration for Lady Martha Lubove in the first film. The overall theme of the movie seems awkward as Drac still doesn’t accept awkward twenty-something backpacker, Johnny, as his son-in-law despite the first three movies showing that he was supposed to have finally accepted him as Mavis loved Johnny, and that was all that mattered to him because as his only daughter he would do anything for her.  Even later in the second film when Mavis and Johnny had a Son, givi