FILM · 2015 · USA
Hotel Transylvania 2
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- #001
CeeLo Green did not reprise his role as the voice of Murray the Mummy due to his arrest. Keegan-Michael Key replaced him in this film, and the same was true for Hotel Transylvania 3: Summer Vacation (2018) and Hotel Transylvania 4: Transformania (2022).
- #002
Jonathan's (Andy Samberg) parents are voiced by real-life married couple Nick Offerman and Megan Mullally.
- #003
In many ancient cultures, especially Greek culture, red-haired people were believed to become vampires after death. It is therefore quite fitting that Johnny and Dennis are red-haired. However, it is not known whether this was an intentional reference.
- #004
Adam Sandler's daughter Sadie voiced Wayne's only wolf pup, Winnie, and Dennis's "zing."
- #005
Set seven years after the first Hotel Transylvania (2012), this film finds Dracula at 539, Mavis at 125 and Jonathan at 28 years old.
- #006
Jonathan's vampire costume is modeled on Gary Oldman's old version of Dracula from Dracula (1992).
- #007
Dracula is shown drinking substitute blood after stating in Hotel Transylvania (2012) that he did so.
- #008
At one point Mavis calls Johnny "Johnnystein," after his earlier identity in Hotel Transylvania (2012).
- #009
Mel Brooks based Vlad's voice on his grandfather's voice.
- #010
The GPS voice is based on classic horror star Peter Lorre.
- #011
This is the tenth feature film or series in which Adam Sandler and Kevin James have appeared together, and their second time in 2015.
- #012
Six-year-old Asher Blinkoff won the role of Dennis, Mavis and Johnny's son, through an open casting call; Genndy Tartakovsky chose him, and Adam Sandler and his team loved his voice audition. Coincidentally, Asher's 10-year-old sister Meira voiced a wolf pup in the first film and returned to provide additional voices as the wolf pups and child monsters at vampire camp. The producers were not aware of this until they cast Asher.
- #013
Vlad's address is 666 Gory Cliff Lane.
- #014
Although the hotel's evil chef Quasimodo and his rat Esmeralda do not return in this film, they appear in the film's video game adaptation, which shows that they reformed after the events of the first film.
- #015
As of now, this is the most successful film of Adam Sandler's career, grossing over $169 million domestically. His previous biggest hit was Big Daddy (1999), which earned $163 million. However, this film is still his biggest live-action film.
- #016
Bela (Rob Riggle) is a reference to Bela Lugosi, the actor who played Dracula, Ygor and Frankenstein's Monster in Universal Pictures' horror films.
- #017
Dracula's father Vlad appears to be a reference to Vlad II Dracul, the father of the man who inspired Dracula's original Bram Stoker incarnation, Vlad the Impaler.
- #018
In the first film, Mavis's uncle was mistakenly called "Frankenstein" because that was the name of the scientist who created him. In this film he makes the correction, saying he is technically "Frankenstein's monster." The monster's name never actually appears in Mary Shelley's novel, but she herself gave him the name Adam.
- #019
Mel Brooks voiced "Vlad," also known as "Dracula." Brooks directed Young Frankenstein (1974) and Dracula: Dead and Loving It (1995).
- #020
Bigfoot plays football on a German team. A closer look at the other team's jerseys shows that it is the Argentine team. Germany and Argentina have been regular rivals in nearly every World Cup, and even met in the 2014 final, which Germany won.
- #021
Dennis's favorite monster is a parody of the Cookie Monster and Barney.
- #022
Jon Lovitz voiced Quasimodo in the first film and the Phantom of the Opera in this one. Both roles had previously been played in Lon Chaney's films.
- #023
Mavis and Johnny's son Dennis was born on Friday the 13th.
- #024
The logo on the moving boxes belongs to Minotaur Movers. The Minotaur was a monster from Greek mythology.
- #025
Because of the many similarities between the Caped Crusader and his family, Dennis loves Batman. The viral video ends with several photos of Batman's villains laughing.
- #026
When Johnny and Mavis visit the Loughrans' house, you can see a framed photo of Johnny dressed as a vampire for Halloween '97.
- #027
When Mavis shows the Drac the "Dracula Remix" video montage put together by Vamp Kid666, it includes pictures of Gene Wilder (as Dr. Frankenstein in Young Frankenstein (1974)) and Cesar Romero (as the Joker in Batman (1966)).
- #028
Dennis was initially designed with giant curls of his father's red hair, but when he was converted to computer animation his hair was so big that it blocked the light in front of Dennis's face, and because the hair took up so much room no one's arms could be long enough to hold Dennis. Dennis's final model had more than 265 separate strands. When the computer filled in the rest, he had a total of 150,000 hairs.
- #029
Jonathan and his family's surname, Loughran, is a reference to Jonathan Loughran, the cross-eyed, blond-haired actor who frequently appears in Adam Sandler's films, especially Grown Ups (2010).
- #030
Jonathan and Mavis move to Santa Cruz, California, to live among humans; this is the real-life location where The Lost Boys (1987), a vampire film, was shot.
- #031
Despite starring in, co-producing and co-writing the film, Sandler's Happy Madison production company did not distribute it.
- #032
At the start of the film, during the Columbia Pictures logo, the Torch Lady turns into Mavis as a bat, and Mavis then turns the page to the first scene. You can tell she is Mavis and not Dracula because Mavis has blue eyes as a bat, while Dracula's eyes are red. This sequence also occurs at the start of Hotel Transylvania (2012).
- #033
The Phantom of the Opera is played by Jon Lovitz, who previously played Quasimodo in Hotel Transylvania (2012).
- #034
The main building at the vampire camp resembles a painting by Thomas Kinkade, whose buildings are often mocked for looking as if they are on fire.
- #035
At one point, Vlad addresses his son as the Prince of Darkness, albeit with a sarcastic edge.
- #036
This marks the fourth collaboration between Adam Sandler and Dana Carvey, following Little Nicky (2000), The Master of Disguise (2002) and Jack and Jill (2011).
- #037
The production team initially thought Vlad should live in an old-fashioned castle — in other words, a classic setting that looked like it had come out of a twentieth-century vampire film — but then decided to have him live in a cave to show how isolated he had become.
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