Hotel Transylvania 4 Is Worse Without Adam Sandler
Hotel Transylvania 4: Transformania, the fourth and final movie in the Hotel Transylvania franchise, premiered on Amazon Prime without the voice talents of Adam Sandler. There has been no official word on why Sandler didn’t return to voice Dracula, who he played in the first three Hotel Transylvania movies. In Hotel Transylvania 4, Dracula and his friends, a werewolf named Wayne, a mummy named Murray, Griffin the invisible man, and Frankenstein are all turned human by Van Helsing’s monster ray. Johnny, Dracula’s daughter Mavis’s husband, uses the ray to turn into a monster so that Dracula would allow him and Mavis to take over the hotel. An accident breaks the monster ray, and in order to turn back into their original forms, Dracula and Johnny must find a special crystal that will allow Van Helsing to repair the ray.
While most of the cast from the previous movies have returned for Hotel Transylvania 4, including Wizards of Waverly Place star Selena Gomez as Mavis and Andy Samberg as Johnny, Sandler has been replaced by Brian Hull, who had previously voiced the character in the animated short Monster Pets. Kevin James also did not return to voice Frankenstein, who is instead voiced by Brad Abrell. Director Derek Drymon said that the transformation that Dracula goes through in the movie makes the slight differences in his voice make sense, as Dracula spends the bulk of the movie as a human.
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Without Adam Sandler, however, Hotel Transylvania 4 doesn’t seem to work as well. Hull doesn’t do a bad job with the Dracula voice, but Adam Sandler’s Dracula voice is an iconic part of the character. Sandler is known for his over-the-top comedy style,
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