Hotel Transylvania: Transformania

The human (or human-looking) characters are predominantly White. A couple of voice actors are Black or Latino. The characters are all different types of monsters (and a human) and live harmoniously with one another. Tolerance and acceptance are major themes of the movie. Female characters have agency, but male characters are in the story's spotlight.

Physical comedy involves lots of slapstick bits with characters falling or getting hurt but not too seriously injured (like big falls and an extended sequence of mosquitoes and piranhas biting a now-human Drac). The Johnny monster gets increasingly more feral and beast-like as the movie develops and loses his human thoughts. All of the characters survive dangerous situations in which it seems they'll be seriously injured, whether from the environment or the transformed monsters -- but all ends well. Destruction of property by various monsters. Potentially scary gerbil monster has fangs and red eyes. Some disagreements.

Mavis and Johnny hug, dance, and kiss briefly. Drac and Ericka also flirt and hug. A few butt jokes and shots of a bare butt (one especially large/looming) when formerly invisible Griffin becomes visible. Frank takes selfies of his new hunkified human-looking self, and he's shirtless in one scene.

Mild insults like: "I'm disgusting," "I'm so human," "No one wants to see you," and screaming in horror at a character's new appearance.

Adult monsters drink a toast at a party.

Parents need to know that Hotel Transylvania: Transformania is the fourth (and supposedly final) installment in the animated Hotel Transylvania series of movies about classic movie monsters. The story focuses on Johnny (voiced by Andy Samberg), who uses Van Helsing's (Jim Gaffigan) "Monsterfication Ray" to turn himself into a monster after Drac (Brian Hull, stepping in for Adam Sandler) lies and tells him that only a monster can inherit the family business. But the device also turns the monsters, including Drac himself, into humans. Expect mild peril (falls from heights, etc.), lots of slapstick physical comedy (mostly at the expense of how frail humans are compared to monsters), property destruction, and a fanged and red-eyed rampaging gerbil monster. There are few laugh-inducing shots of the Invisible Man's bare bum once he becomes visible (one shot is especially large and looming), as well as some affection/kissing between couples, mild insults, and characters drinking a toast during a celebration. "Humanizing" the monsters makes it clear that the characters are more diverse as monsters than they are as humans. But as with the previous movies, the story has themes of celebrating differences, accepting others as they are, and the importance of teamwork.

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