Hotel Transylvania 2 Audio Commentary Adam Sandler

Hotel Transylvania 2 is a 2015 American animated monster comedy film directed by Genndy Tartakovsky and written by Robert Smigel and Adam Sandler. Produced by Columbia Pictures and Sony Pictures Animation, it is the second installment in the Hotel Transylvania franchise and the sequel to Hotel Transylvania (2012). Sandler, Andy Samberg, Selena Gomez, Kevin James, David Spade, Steve Buscemi, Molly Shannon and Fran Drescher reprise their roles from the first film, with Keegan-Michael Key and Mel Brooks joining the cast. The film takes place several years after the events of the first film. Mavis and Johnny have a young son named Dennis, whose lack of any vampire abilities worries both Mavis and his maternal grandfather Dracula for differing reasons. When Mavis and Johnny travel to Johnny's hometown in Santa Cruz, California, Drac calls his friends to help him make Dennis a vampire, much to Mavis's dismay. Hotel Transylvania 2 was released theatrically on September 25, 2015, by Sony Pictures Releasing. The film received mixed reviews and grossed $474 million worldwide on an $80 million budget. It won a Kids' Choice Award for Favorite Animated Movie. A further sequel, Hotel Transylvania 3: Summer Vacation, was released in 2018. Plot Sometime after the events of the first film, Mavis and Johnny are finally married, with the approval of her father Count Dracula. One year after the wedding, Mavis reveals to Drac that she is pregnant and later gives birth to a baby boy whom the couple name Dennis, nicknamed “Denisovich” by Dracula. As Dennis's fifth birthday nears, he has yet to grow his fangs and Drac worries that his grandson might not gain vampire powers. Noticing the potential dangers her son might face living in Transylvania, Mavis starts to consider moving to Johnny's hometown in California in order to give Dennis a more “normal” childhood, much to Drac's disapproval. Drac tells Johnny, who does not want to leave the hotel either, to bring Mavis to California to visit his parents, Mike and Linda, but to make sure to keep her distracted and not too happy so that she will not move, leaving Drac to "babysit" Dennis. Convinced that Dennis is a "late fanger", Drac enlists his friends Frank, Wayne, Griffin, Murray, and Blobby to help train Dennis to become a vampire, but every attempt that some of them try fails. Drac and the gang then go to Camp Winnepacaca, Mavis' childhood summer camp, only to sneak away after Drac finds out that the camp has become much safer and child-friendly. Drac attempts to hurl Dennis from a tall, unstable tower to pressure the boy's transformation into a bat, but he fails to transform and Drac flies down and rescues him at the last second. Afterwards, Frank ends up loosening the tower and it collapses onto the campfire setting both the tower and a screaming Frank on fire as he runs through all the buildings, setting the entire camp on fire. Meanwhile, in California, Mavis enjoys exploring the more human world. When she and Johnny arrive at Linda and Mike's house, Linda unsuccessfully attempts to make Mavis feel more comfortable by covering her room with spooky, Halloween decorations and inviting other monster/human couples over. Feeling like a stranger, Mavis retreats up to the roof, and Johnny tells her that if they stay together, Dennis will live normally, persuading her to stay at the hotel. However, Johnny then discovers a video of Dennis falling that was filmed by the campers, and he and an enraged Mavis go back to Transylvania, with Drac and his friends reaching the hotel at the same time. Mavis berates her father for putting Dennis in danger and failing to let humans into his heart, by showing him a pop remix video the campers made of Dennis' fall from the tower, Drac arguing with the staff and calling Mavis crazy. Mavis says that they will move out of the hotel after Dennis' 5th birthday party. The night before the party, Drac hosts Johnny's family, and finds out that Mavis invited his father Vlad. As Vlad is more hateful of humans than he was, Drac tells Johnny to have his family disguise themselves as monsters. The next day, Vlad arrives with his monstrous bat-like servant Bela and meets Dennis for the first time. Believing that fear will cause Dennis' fangs to sprout, Vlad possesses a stage performer, named Brandon, dressed as Dennis' favorite TV monster Kakie to scare him, but when Drac sees Dennis too scared of the possessed Kakie, Drac shields his frightened grandson at the last moment realising that it was not worth it and frees Kakie from Vlad's control over the performer. Mavis mistakenly believes that Drac was responsible for the ruse, and while the family argues about whether or not Dennis could be happy in California, an upset Dennis flees the hotel and enters the forest, being followed by Wayne's daughter Winnie, whom had a mutual crush on him.