On the 125th anniversary of the Hotel Transylvania an accident involving one of Van Helsing’s (Jim Gaffigan) experimental weapons turns Johnny (Andy Samberg) into a monster and everyone else into a human. Can our loveable monsters find a way to reverse this experiment before it is too late? 

The fourth and possibly final Hotel Transylvania film is another relative success comparatively with what has gone before. None of the films have particularly lit the world on fire but they act as really fun diversions for kids and all but the third instalment run in at under 90 minutes and that one only misses by 7 minutes. The voice cast as with the others is stacked with amazing talent although it took the credits rolling at the end of this one for me to realise that Adam Sandler and Kevin James were actually missing as Dracula and Frankenstein. But given that I didn’t notice it can’t be that drastic a failing on the voice skills of Brian Hull and Brad Abrell who have taken on the reigns. Elsewhere Andy Samberg, Selina Gomez, Kathryn Hahn, Keegan-Michael Key, Steve Buscemi, Molly Shannon and Fran Drescher all return. 

This feature seemed to have slightly more basic animation in regards to the background depth and has gone straight to Amazon Prime Video streaming rather than arriving in the cinema, so clearly there were some changes made to the strategy for this film’s release. 

Story and enjoyment wise though it is fine. It does not try to be anything more than a very straightforward children’s animated feature and frankly it is a lot better than many of the other straight to streaming children’s films that you will find on these services. The odd couple relationship between Dracula and Johnny is a lot of fun and the remaining monsters who are now humans chasing them provide an equal amount of laughs. 

If you have enjoyed the previous films or have young children this is for you.