Name : Andy Webster / Alias : New York Times
You won't find much offensive in Kevin James's slick, innocuous vehicle Paul Blart: Mall Cop 2. You won't find much prompting an emotional reaction in general, so familiar are the jokes and situations.

Name : Kevin P. Sullivan / Alias : Entertainment Weekly
Far from the worst movie that you'll ever see, but you might leave wondering why you, the people on the screen, or anyone else in the theater even bothered.

Name : Tom Huddleston / Alias : Time Out
What would a film be like if every single person involved made as little effort as humanly possible?

Name : Joe Neumaier / Alias : New York Daily News
The cinematic equivalent of biting into an old brown banana.

Name : Rafer Guzman / Alias : Newsday
Paul Blart: Mall Cop 2 may be forgettable, but it's difficult to truly dislike.

Name : Christy Lemire / Alias : RogerEbert.com
Truly, there is not a single redeeming moment in director Andy Fickman's film. A general flatness and lethargy permeates these reheated proceedings.

Name : Frank Scheck / Alias : Hollywood Reporter
James tries hard, very hard, to inject the proceedings with slapstick humor, propelling his large body through endless physical contortions in a fruitless effort for laughs.

Name : Alonso Duralde / Alias : TheWrap
A movie whose chuckles (six, I counted) are outnumbered by helicopter shots of the Wynn resort in Las Vegas.

Name : Jesse Hassenger / Alias : AV Club
Maybe Paul Blart isn't spoofing John McClane after all; maybe these movies are actually too stupid to realize what they're imitating.

Name : Peter Howell / Alias : Toronto Star
Caddyshack 2. Exorcist 2. Speed 2. To this small sample of the ever-expanding list of wretched movie sequels, add Paul Blart: Mall Cop 2, a gobsmackingly witless excuse for entertainment.

Name : Gary Goldstein / Alias : Los Angeles Times
Although there have been worse sequels - and worse overall movies - make no mistake, that's hardly a recommendation.

Name : Sara Stewart / Alias : New York Post
This wisp of a plot is just an excuse for James to do his one trick over and over: Bluster, then screw up humiliatingly. Is it never funny? No, it's not never funny. It's just not funny nearly often enough.

Name : Justin Chang / Alias : Variety
Kevin James keeps falling on his face and colliding with heavy objects, this time in Vegas, in this tacky, numbingly inane sequel.

Name : Bilge Ebiri / Alias : New York Magazine/Vulture
Nobody was expecting much from Paul Blart: Mall Cop 2, but did it have to be this unimaginative and lifeless?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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