'Hotel Transylvania 2' News: New Trailer Released, Plot Details Revealed
The first trailer of the animated movie "Hotel Transylvania 2" has been released by Sony Pictures Animation and it reveals some of the upcoming movie's plot details. It will hit theaters on September 25, 2015.
The movie is a sequel to the 2012 hit "Hotel Transylvania," which was about Dracula who owned a special hotel for monsters like himself to get away from humans and get their own kind of "vacation." In the first film, Dracula invites his group of monster friends, the Drac Pack, to his daughter's 118th birthday. Their celebration is somewhat spoiled by the appearance of a human, Jonathan, in the "no-humans allowed" hotel. As it turns out, Dracula's daughter, Mavis, falls in love with Jonathan.
In the sequel, as can be gathered from the newly released trailer, Dracula is a doting grandfather to a young boy who looks much like his father, Jonathan. According to a report in Moviefone, the little boy in the trailer is Dennis and is indeed the son of Johnny and Mavis.
"Dennis isn't showing any signs of becoming a monster, so Drac takes it upon himself to get the fangs out of him, as we say in the movie," the film's director, Genndy Tartakovsky said. "One of the things is teaching him how to fly. It's the old metaphor of throwing somebody into a lake to learn how to swim. So he throws him off of this huge tower to see if he grows wings and becomes a bat."
The trailer also hints who is coming back in the sequel. Dracula (voiced by Adam Sandler) is again joined by his friends: Frankenstein's Monster (voiced by Kevin James), The Invisible Man (David Spade) and Werewolf (Steve Buscemi) and the Mummy (this time, voiced by Keegan-Michael Key). Selena Gomez returns to voice Mavis, and Andy Samberg as Johnny.
A new character appears in the sequel and this is Dracula's father, Vlad, voiced by the legendary Mel Brooks. Tartakovsky describes his character as "an old-school vampire" who "has not assimilated at all with the humans. He doesn't know Dracula runs the hotel. He and Dracula have parted ways. So where we pick it up in the movie, Dracula really needs his help because he's the authority on vampires. Drac's got to keep it all a big secret."
