Name : Bill Goodykoontz / Alias : Arizona Republic
There are a few laughs sprinkled throughout director Genndy Tartakovsky's film, but not nearly enough.

Name : Liam Lacey / Alias : Globe and Mail
This comedy starring and produced by Adam Sandler feels as slapped together one of the comedian's live-action buddy movies.

Name : Joe Neumaier / Alias : New York Daily News
There's enough silly slapstick here that it flies by harmlessly.

Name : Betsy Sharkey / Alias : Los Angeles Times
"Hotel Transylvania" never becomes the great monster mash that seemed in the offing.

Name : Tom Keogh / Alias : Seattle Times
There's much to enjoy here in a disposable way, particularly jokes about monsters having ordinary problems with kids and spouses.

Name : Peter Debruge / Alias : Variety
A stale overprotective-dad story set within a location that could easily house a more inspired mix of characters and events.

Name : Mary F. Pols / Alias : TIME Magazine
A family movie that includes almost entirely lewd jokes for adults.

Name : Michael O'Sullivan / Alias : Washington Post
"Hotel Transylvania" may offer a perfectly fine Halloween-themed getaway for young kids, but there aren't many amenities for Mom and Dad.

Name : Bilge Ebiri / Alias : New York Magazine/Vulture
It's all strictly one-note stuff. But it's a funny note, and the film has a grand old time giving us the same type of gag over and over again.

Name : Nell Minow / Alias : Chicago Sun-Times
The 3-D adds a vertiginous thrill to a chase on flying tables and a touch of claustrophobia to a maze of underground corridors.

Name : Amy Biancolli / Alias : San Francisco Chronicle
The film is good goofy fun, even as the plot uncorks a whole lotta nothing.

Name : Steven Rea / Alias : Philadelphia Inquirer
There's enough here to entertain - and gross out - the kiddie crowd, and parental units, too.

Name : Tom Huddleston / Alias : Time Out
No one does saccharine like Adam Sandler. The man can be sharp, angry and funny - but when he lays on the sweetness, it's like drowning in an avalanche of Tate & Lyle.

Name : Nick Pinkerton / Alias : Village Voice
Although it doesn't worry itself with dialectic complexities, Hotel Transylvania succeeds on the level of entertainment.

Name : Tasha Robinson / Alias : AV Club
A story about the difficult balance between protecting loved ones and controlling them is discarded so the cast can monomaniacally pursue a trite cliche summed up with a silly noise.

Name : Laremy Legel / Alias : Film.com
The biggest issue facing "Hotel Transylvania" is that this story has been done before, over the past six decades, and in a far superior manner.

Name : David Fear / Alias : Time Out
Tweens might appreciate the sugar-rush ghoulishness; Famous Monsters of Filmland fans and discerning kids-flick viewers may find themselves reaching for torches.

Name : Rafer Guzman / Alias : Newsday
Feels like a string of jokes without a story.

Name : Lisa Schwarzbaum / Alias : Entertainment Weekly
Tartakovsky's zippy, boing-boing touch shines through in the purely physical antics of the monster mob; words aren't necessary as the freaks bounce around the place with nutso energy.

Name : Glenn Kenny / Alias : MSN Movies
The main reason I'm giving this a more favorable rating than my actual opinion of the movie would seem to call for is because the screening I attended also had a lot of kids in the audience, and most of them were relatively delighted.

Name : Tom Russo / Alias : Boston Globe
Every generation of trick-or-treaters deserves its monster mash.

Name : Michael Rechtshaffen / Alias : Hollywood Reporter
A scarily unfunny animated monster movie that goes awry right off the bat.

Name : Bruce Demara / Alias : Toronto Star
A fast, funny and wildly inventive animated tale with enough laughs and heart to appeal to audiences of all ages.

Name : Tom Long / Alias : Detroit News
It won't drive you crazy to watch it, but it isn't "The Lion King" either.

Name : Sara Stewart / Alias : New York Post
[Tartakovsky's] wit and attention to detail enliven a collection of well-known ghosts and ghouls.

Name : Neil Genzlinger / Alias : New York Times
The movie loses its originality as it rolls toward its predictable conclusion, but it's still lovely to look at.

Name : Ian Buckwalter / Alias : NPR
At its core, this movie is little more than Twilight told from the other side of the tracks, only with far more fart jokes.

Name : Alonso Duralde / Alias : TheWrap
Hotel Transylvania may lack the emotional oomph of Pixar's best efforts, but it makes up for it with rapid-fire gags and an unflagging pace that makes this a rare all-ages treat.

Name : Claudia Puig / Alias : USA Today
While it's an energetic romp, there is more slapstick humor than wit at work here, and a good deal of borrowing from the far more clever Monsters, Inc.

Name : Stephen Whitty / Alias : Newark Star-Ledger
Even the animation is ugly.

Name : James Berardinelli / Alias : ReelViews
Not since Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein have the great Universal monsters been subjected to such dismal treatment.