Very meh show but I can't really find a reason to dislike it all that much. My kid watches it occasionally and because I keep an eye on what he watches, I get a dose of whatever is on :-/ This isn't the worst thing but it's not super inspiring either. The positives are the young cast of voice actors do a nice job and the animation is pretty expressive. The script is typical and same old tired scenarios leave it in the dust when you compare it to Home or even The Croods series. Anyone complaining that these companies just turn EVERYTHING into an animated tv series to squeeze cash should know that when I was a kid, we had animated tv series of not only EVERY Disney movie but also adult films like the Mask and Dumb and Dumber. And they're never in the film canon. They had a pet beaver in Dumb and Dumber. These companies ALWAYS grabbed for cash. At least they don't make toys of the series as much now.
20 Reviews
Stop trying to reinvent the wheel
lelamarie12 November 2017
Once again Disney has a hit with a movie and the proceeds to ruin it by making it into a TV show with low quality animation.
It's OK to spend some of your money in order to produce a quality TV show for children.
By the way, it's not only my opinion. My kids hate the look of the show too!
It's OK to spend some of your money in order to produce a quality TV show for children.
By the way, it's not only my opinion. My kids hate the look of the show too!
It has returned
rbnlrk22 July 2022
Warning: Spoilers
5 years later after the movie Hotel Transylvania got a TV show. This is about Mavis and her friends on lively adventures with evil dolls and on. Nothing groundbreaking but some 10 minutes fun per episode for kids and adults that loves old Universal monsters.
God Awful show for children
budize27 July 2017
Warning: Spoilers
My 16-month-old-grandson watches the Disney channel all day! His favorite show was probably Andi Mack until they decided to end the season.. And came out with THIS show. I get it Disney , your shows lately have been not the biggest hits but why dig a bigger hole for yourself? This shows humor is dead and flat and even my grandson who eats anything he can find cant watch it without crying/screaming. A whole show is dedicated to a guy getting a new hand, and then the old hand gets sad, and then the hands fight..? WHAT? COME ON Disney! The Hotel Transylvania movies aren't even Disney made! I rather just take a little bit more time to make a show worth watching then make this sloppy piece of animation. You can do better than this.
What the hell is Disney thinking. Converting this movie into a series doesn't work.
David_Habert1 September 2017
Warning: Spoilers
There are times that making a TV series out of a animated movie is a good idea. Provided that the actors who originally voiced the characters are also in the series and that the animation is the same as in the movie.
A good example of that working was "How To Train Your Dragon", when it was converted into two TV series.
However in this case, this shows a classic example of Disney trying to do the same thing and screwing it up. What were you guys thinking? I only saw ten minutes of the first episode and thought, are you guys f??king kidding me? the animation is terrible, no where near as good as the movies.
It doesn't even have the same actors voice the characters in the movies.
Avoid this series like the plague guys and gals. This is one example where it doesn't work, trust me.
A good example of that working was "How To Train Your Dragon", when it was converted into two TV series.
However in this case, this shows a classic example of Disney trying to do the same thing and screwing it up. What were you guys thinking? I only saw ten minutes of the first episode and thought, are you guys f??king kidding me? the animation is terrible, no where near as good as the movies.
It doesn't even have the same actors voice the characters in the movies.
Avoid this series like the plague guys and gals. This is one example where it doesn't work, trust me.
Very Fun to Watch
yangx-340629 November 2018
I really liked the take on Mavis' younger years (teen years). The characters were all very well thought out (um, except maybe Klaus(h)), with different personalities that draw them all together. My personal favorite is Aunt Lydia. I also liked that the audience gets to see more of Hotel Transylvania and its workers/guests.... This series took me by surprise-I absolutely enjoy watching it-and I hope to see more on Netflix.
Holy Rabies!!
bhernandez22161 April 2020
Hotel Transylvania: TV Series is a pretty good show. Because it's based on an Animated original movie that takes place before Mavis Dracula, which is my favorite character so far, Mavis met Jonathan. In the show she had to take very good care of the Hotel as her father Count Dracula, puts her in charge of the Hotel. And this show is not half bad.
Disney Channel needs to get their act together
Aleta_Nook25 June 2017
Why does everything need a franchise? What is so special about Hotel Transylvania to warrant a sequel and a T.V. series? When I first saw Hotel Transylvania for my fourteenth birthday, I thought that it was pretty fair and Mavis was cringe-worthily foolish as a child. And because I wasn't a big fan of the first film, I didn't know if I wanted to see the sequel.
This series is coming from a company that has never made a great animated film that I've seen from them. I caught the last 20 minutes of the first episode and the whole thing was just clichéd. It had lowbrow humor, a replaced voice cast when the original voice cast were okay, and an again, clichéd plot. I even want to say the animation is mostly bad but it's hard to get used to the new 2.D. animation.
This series doesn't seem to have anything to do with the sequel. Why do I need to know more about Mavis and company? They already showed her as a child, growing up, learning how to fly and I think that's enough.
This series is coming from a company that has never made a great animated film that I've seen from them. I caught the last 20 minutes of the first episode and the whole thing was just clichéd. It had lowbrow humor, a replaced voice cast when the original voice cast were okay, and an again, clichéd plot. I even want to say the animation is mostly bad but it's hard to get used to the new 2.D. animation.
This series doesn't seem to have anything to do with the sequel. Why do I need to know more about Mavis and company? They already showed her as a child, growing up, learning how to fly and I think that's enough.
Annoying
raymanfan14 September 2018
Like all movies converted into a TV-series, this is supposed to happen before the first movie. Dracula only has a few cameos (The best character in the show!), they've added a really annoying slime/blob/nerd character and the main character has a completely different personality from the movie. The animation is just fine, it's not hand drawn and fluid, but flash animated and almost seems like it's missing frames. It just stutters a lot. The main character's design looks like someone from "Star vs the Forces of Evil", which isn't necessarily a bad thing. Too much slapstick, which doesn't really work when the animation is so limited and stiff. Horrible jokes too
This not only doesn't need to exist, it's downright awful.
beachhouse-2781623 July 2017
I saw the trailer for this show long before its first episode aired on TV. I was unimpressed. Still, I hoped it would be one of those cases where the show itself is enjoyable in the least, and different from the trailer. God. It's quite the opposite.
Before I go on I'd like to note that I have to note that I have never seen the original movie(s). I have heard that they are funny and heartwarming, and I do intend to watch them at some point, but I intentionally went into this show with no prior knowledge of the source material. I want to judge this as its own thing, and not some petty addition to an expanding franchise.
Anyway, the show has very little going on for it. You could probably say, actually, that it has nothing going on for it. I can not name a SINGLE time I laughed at this show. All of the jokes either fall flat, are delivered incorrectly, or outright don't make sense. And that is probably one of the biggest flaws, if not THE biggest flaw, of the show. It is straight-up unfunny. The animation does not help in the slightest, either.
The animation looks lazy and, at times, unfinished. It's clearly cheap and done under a very tight time limit. One of the very few things I have heard about the original movie is that its animation style is very fast-paced and compliments the humor very nicely. That is NOT the case here. The animation is usually very slow, allowing for more verbal humor than physical humor. OH MY GOD IS THAT AN AWFUL CHOICE. "Hotel Transylvania: The Series" needs SO MUCH MORE physical humor! And the main reasoning for this is that the verbal humor is near unbearable! Some physical humor would make this cartoon a lot livelier.
Probably the best part about this show is the voice acting. That's not to say that the characters are good--in fact, I hate almost every one of them. They're either annoying, unlikable, or too idiotic to care about. The voice acting helps this a little bit, however, since the voice actors are honestly not horrible replacements for the original's. Okay, it's no Vincent Price performance, but it's... Passable. The voice actors helped me a lot to not make me want to punch one of these characters in the face. Particularly Mavis. Her voice actor--Bryn McAuley--adds some much needed life to this character and really steals the show. In fact, she's really the only character that I don't mind. She can be really annoying at times, but she's definitely one of the better characters.
All in all, this show is a definite skip. It's harmless to show to your kid if there is literally nothing better on, but I would rather watch... Anything else, except maybe "Teen Titans Go!". Just... Don't pay any mind to it if you don't have to.
Before I go on I'd like to note that I have to note that I have never seen the original movie(s). I have heard that they are funny and heartwarming, and I do intend to watch them at some point, but I intentionally went into this show with no prior knowledge of the source material. I want to judge this as its own thing, and not some petty addition to an expanding franchise.
Anyway, the show has very little going on for it. You could probably say, actually, that it has nothing going on for it. I can not name a SINGLE time I laughed at this show. All of the jokes either fall flat, are delivered incorrectly, or outright don't make sense. And that is probably one of the biggest flaws, if not THE biggest flaw, of the show. It is straight-up unfunny. The animation does not help in the slightest, either.
The animation looks lazy and, at times, unfinished. It's clearly cheap and done under a very tight time limit. One of the very few things I have heard about the original movie is that its animation style is very fast-paced and compliments the humor very nicely. That is NOT the case here. The animation is usually very slow, allowing for more verbal humor than physical humor. OH MY GOD IS THAT AN AWFUL CHOICE. "Hotel Transylvania: The Series" needs SO MUCH MORE physical humor! And the main reasoning for this is that the verbal humor is near unbearable! Some physical humor would make this cartoon a lot livelier.
Probably the best part about this show is the voice acting. That's not to say that the characters are good--in fact, I hate almost every one of them. They're either annoying, unlikable, or too idiotic to care about. The voice acting helps this a little bit, however, since the voice actors are honestly not horrible replacements for the original's. Okay, it's no Vincent Price performance, but it's... Passable. The voice actors helped me a lot to not make me want to punch one of these characters in the face. Particularly Mavis. Her voice actor--Bryn McAuley--adds some much needed life to this character and really steals the show. In fact, she's really the only character that I don't mind. She can be really annoying at times, but she's definitely one of the better characters.
All in all, this show is a definite skip. It's harmless to show to your kid if there is literally nothing better on, but I would rather watch... Anything else, except maybe "Teen Titans Go!". Just... Don't pay any mind to it if you don't have to.
One of my fav cartoons out there
willz1876 July 2017
Laughing out loud.
Hotel Transylvania the series is funner and zanier than the original source. Love the writing and voice acting. Mavis is great and deserves to be the star. Love how fast she zooms around. This voice actor has way more energy than Selena Gomez of the movies, who makes Mavis too flat and bland. Mavis in the movies is pretty much a non-character, mopey and charmless. This 'teenage' Mavis is a ball of hilarious.
The 11 minute episode format leaves no room for melodrama and sappy stuff like the movies have. It's just fun. Great cameo characters too like Medusa. Haven't experienced a lot of predictable or stereotypical monster stuff. They have free reign to create lore which is refreshing.
The music is great too with a mix of punk, hip hop, mariachi,etc.
Artwork, animation, cinematography, writing, all tops. Best out there.
Season 2 is just as great as 1! Pretty much my favorite cartoon of the 2000's. And I watch a lot of cartoons. Thank you to the producers of this show
Hotel Transylvania the series is funner and zanier than the original source. Love the writing and voice acting. Mavis is great and deserves to be the star. Love how fast she zooms around. This voice actor has way more energy than Selena Gomez of the movies, who makes Mavis too flat and bland. Mavis in the movies is pretty much a non-character, mopey and charmless. This 'teenage' Mavis is a ball of hilarious.
The 11 minute episode format leaves no room for melodrama and sappy stuff like the movies have. It's just fun. Great cameo characters too like Medusa. Haven't experienced a lot of predictable or stereotypical monster stuff. They have free reign to create lore which is refreshing.
The music is great too with a mix of punk, hip hop, mariachi,etc.
Artwork, animation, cinematography, writing, all tops. Best out there.
Season 2 is just as great as 1! Pretty much my favorite cartoon of the 2000's. And I watch a lot of cartoons. Thank you to the producers of this show
Sucks so bad
uqailmahari20 November 2018
Boom Draca-laca! (I love you Mavis...)
GiraffeDoor19 May 2021
Though my feelings about the movies are at best mixed, I found this to be a charming animated show that actually works better.
There's nothing too ground breaking in this supernatural sitcom set-up but I find that rather refreshing. I feel this feels more like something made in the early 2000s and that is not meant to be an insult with its fast paced stories providing easy, casual viewing.
The artistic direction and design is just superb. I really felt immersed in this homage to classic horror but with a slick, contemporary twist with rich world building in which I could believe there was a secret culture where marginalized creatures live beyond the domain of humans. The red-and-black interior design of the hotel is at once enticing and oddly soothing.
The humor is mostly narrative driven unless it plays off the setting and it can be somewhat repellent or juvenile which I didn't love but it does restrain itself quite a bit more than the movies in that respect.
I'm unsure, however, whether I am really a fan of the show or weather I am just a fan of Mavis. In the movies the plots revolved more about other characters doing things regarding her but here she is unambiguously the protagonist and they fleshed her out nicely. She is a sweet but mischievous girl who doesn't mind bending the rules or the truth to get what she wants but is loyal to her friends and has a very positive relationship with her doting father.
Her character animation and facial expressions are just delight after delight, the way she does her little joy dance or looks nonplussed when a plot thickens. She is naughty but nice.
I watched this mostly in the French and Polish dubs which were fabulous, especially Margarite D'amour and Zuzanna Bernat respectively as Mavis. However, Bryn McAuley was also amazing, all three being far more appealing than Gomez.
Also, Mavis' design translates to two dimensions so well.
I won't say this show wasn't somewhat disposable but sometimes you need something like that. I really want more episodes on Netflix!
There's nothing too ground breaking in this supernatural sitcom set-up but I find that rather refreshing. I feel this feels more like something made in the early 2000s and that is not meant to be an insult with its fast paced stories providing easy, casual viewing.
The artistic direction and design is just superb. I really felt immersed in this homage to classic horror but with a slick, contemporary twist with rich world building in which I could believe there was a secret culture where marginalized creatures live beyond the domain of humans. The red-and-black interior design of the hotel is at once enticing and oddly soothing.
The humor is mostly narrative driven unless it plays off the setting and it can be somewhat repellent or juvenile which I didn't love but it does restrain itself quite a bit more than the movies in that respect.
I'm unsure, however, whether I am really a fan of the show or weather I am just a fan of Mavis. In the movies the plots revolved more about other characters doing things regarding her but here she is unambiguously the protagonist and they fleshed her out nicely. She is a sweet but mischievous girl who doesn't mind bending the rules or the truth to get what she wants but is loyal to her friends and has a very positive relationship with her doting father.
Her character animation and facial expressions are just delight after delight, the way she does her little joy dance or looks nonplussed when a plot thickens. She is naughty but nice.
I watched this mostly in the French and Polish dubs which were fabulous, especially Margarite D'amour and Zuzanna Bernat respectively as Mavis. However, Bryn McAuley was also amazing, all three being far more appealing than Gomez.
Also, Mavis' design translates to two dimensions so well.
I won't say this show wasn't somewhat disposable but sometimes you need something like that. I really want more episodes on Netflix!
Characters We've Never Seen Before
pugpugsley26 October 2019
Usually when a TV Series is done from an exist movie or show, they add the same characters that were in the original, except this time the only original character frim the movies is the daughter, the rest are characters we have never seen or heard annoy before, so it is very hard to get into the series because of this.
I seriously do not know when the timeline for this series takes place, I'm sure they've explained that to use, but I was so distracted by trying to figure out what was going on, I could never understand the entire show, and I refuse to watch any more.
It's not funny, each episode is irritating, and it's just another example of Disney not coming up with anything new, but just being disingenuous to the fans versus giving us the same characters we enjoyed in the original movies.
I seriously do not know when the timeline for this series takes place, I'm sure they've explained that to use, but I was so distracted by trying to figure out what was going on, I could never understand the entire show, and I refuse to watch any more.
It's not funny, each episode is irritating, and it's just another example of Disney not coming up with anything new, but just being disingenuous to the fans versus giving us the same characters we enjoyed in the original movies.
Surprisingly entertaining!
Milk_Tray_Guy19 June 2020
I stumbled across this show by accident - and I love it. I love the setting, I love the writing, and I love the (voice) acting. Mavis has become my #2 cartoon crush after Scooby-Doo's Velma Dinkley (I know, my choices probably say a lot about me!), she's hilarious. A fun way to fill a quarter of an hour! 8/10
A GREAT ADITION TO THE MOVIE'S SAGA
fusionverse3 August 2021
Warning: Spoilers
Exploring a little background into what happened before the events of the movies. If you are unfamiliar with the movies, do not worry, you do not need to know the movies to enjoy the series as it is its own thing with little to no references to the movies. Little meaning Dracula's overprotective perdonality, Mavis's adventurous attitude, simple stuf like that. Tremendous animation style, enjoyable goofynessthat even adults might enjoy. Fun and entertaining, not jaring at alland since it does not have huge overarching plots, you can get into the series at any moment, wether you enjoy the movies or not, the series is without a doupt amazing. It may have some inconsistencies with the first movie because Mavis according to the movies never meat humans before the movie and the show has her interacting with some, but no big damage and it can be explained in ways that make sence. So What are you waiting for?
Wow, What a great show, haha!
josephurrutia21 October 2019
I can't believe it! A great cartoon show based on the movie "hotel transylvania", it's pretty awesome that nelvana studios created it. Like I remember the first time I heard about this movie that came out 8 years ago. and to me it seems to me that I certainly recommend watching it. And I mean right now. So 5 stars for this kids show and may the force be with Disney XD
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