YMMV / Hotel Transylvania: Transformania

• Alternative Character Interpretation: Murray, Griffin, and Wayne's horrified response to Frank's hunky human form. Was it because monsters see handsomeness as ugliness, or was it because they knew he would become insufferably vain about it?
• Designated Hero: Mavis. She doesn't take how Johnny's overblown ideas ended up nearly hurting everyone at the celebration in the beginning, overhears a private conversation between her father and step-mother and tells Johnny about it (while she does tell him not inform her dad, knowing Johnny, she really should have known better), which therefore means she instigated the conflict, seems unbothered that her son was hypnotized and blames the whole situation on her dad when he admits his lie instead of taking responsibility for eavesdropping on her father and revealing a private conversation to her husband. The only thing that she does that sort of earns our praise is the ending where it's revealed that the renovations she did when she takes over the hotel is making sure Johnny is kept down-to-earth.
• Fanfic Fuel: There's a device that can turn humans into monsters and monsters into humans (or in Blobby's case, a plate of Jello). Not only that, but it can also turn monstrous features up to the max. What would Mavis be like as a human? Ericka as a monster? If the ray can turn you into a vampire, werewolf, or Frankenstein-like creature, how would the mutation exaggerate them? How would it affect a half-human, half-monster like Dennis?
• Harsher in Hindsight: "The only way to see Transformania is in a movie theatre."
• Informed Wrongness: Dracula is very hesitant about giving management of his precious hotel to Johnny and ends up lying about the law that only monsters can inherit it. He's portrayed as being in the wrong, but there's no getting around the fact that Johnny, while he's consistently proven himself capable of behaving like a big boy when the situation calls for it, is a spacey ditz. Even if he weren't, given Dracula built the hotel himself and is the owner, he has every right to not pass it on to someone, no reason needed. Zigzagged in that Dracula already planned to give the hotel to Mavis, and as Ericka and Mavis herself point out, that means it goes to Johnny as well, so his actions are not just affecting Johnny, but his daughter as well.
• It's the Same, Now It Sucks!: A lot of reviewers and viewers weren't too impressed when it emerges that the major conflict of the film is once again Dracula not appreciating his human relatives, the human relative wanting to be accepted as one of the family, and the two of them trying to keep the ensuing hijinks a secret from Mavis, especially since Drac accepted Johnny by the end of the first film and has accepted humans in general since the end of the second. It's even lampshaded in the film itself, when the Drac Pack moan about how they hate getting roped into this type of plot.
• Just Here for Godzilla: Fans of Brian Hull have expressed much excitement for the film after it was announced that he would be voicing Dracula. Though with Hull himself being a known fan of the Hotel Transylvania franchise, its fanbase and his own have always had some overlap.
• Self-Fanservice: Pretty much the moment the first trailer came out, fans started redesigning the monsters in their human forms so that they'd look less gonk-ish and more like their normal monster forms. This has especially become prevalent with Griffin, whose invisibility pretty much gave fans an excuse to go nuts regarding his design beforehand, leaving many disappointed with how he looks here.
• They Changed It, Now It Sucks!: Brian Hull replacing Adam Sandler as Dracula, not because he's doing a bad job so much as the fact that this is the last Hotel Transylvania movie ever.
• They Wasted a Perfectly Good Character: Dennis spends the whole film Demoted to Extra, appearing as a brief gag when Dracula hypnotizes him, and again at the end when they find the Hotel destroyed. In a film where the plot revolves around a device that establishes a biological dichotomy between humans and monsters, how would this kind of thing affect a half-human, half-monster? Would it have a unique effect on him? Would he be immune to its effects entirely? Either way, he could have been integral to the plot by virtue of being a half-breed.
• Unfortunate Character Design: Griffin's human form resembles a stereotypical Greedy Jew with the curly hair and Gag Nose.
• What Do You Mean, It's for Kids?: Not that the previous movies weren't G-rated and kid-friendly to begin with, but this movie contains a naked Griffin after he transforms into his human form. It also doesn't help that his friends (i.e. Murray and Wayne) react with horror when they see his naked body. At one point, Wayne looks straight at his butt-crack and proceeds to scream in terror when he turns around while hiding from Ericka and Mavis.

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