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Leo

FILM · 2023 · INDIA

Leo

16 archived facts 2 topics 1 source Last reviewed Oct 2026

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16 Interesting Facts About Leo

Interesting Facts (15)

  1. #001

    Tuataras can indeed live past 75 years in captivity, though their average lifespan in the wild is 60 years. However, although Leo is referred to as a lizard species, tuataras are in no way lizards; they are the only member of the biological order known as Rhynchocephalia.

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  2. #002

    Adam Sandler's commitment to this film may have prevented him from reprising his role as Dracula in Hotel Transylvania 4: Transformania (2022).

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  3. #003

    On a shelf in Summer's bedroom are bobbleheads of Conan O'Brien, Chubbs from Happy Gilmore and Billie Eilish.

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  4. #004

    As in the first three Hotel Transylvania films, Adam Sandler's daughter Sadie Sandler appears, and this time his other daughter, Sunny Sandler, does as well.

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  5. #005

    Leo and Squirtle take their names from popular culture characters that already existed in the 1990s: Leo is named after the turtle Leonardo from Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1987), while Squirtle is named after the creature from Pokémon (1997).

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  6. #006

    The tiny orange helmet Squirtle wears toward the end of the film is the same one worn by Adam Sandler's character in Hubie Halloween.

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  7. #007

    Adam Sandler's wife Jackie provides the voice of Jada's mother. However, at 1:40 the audience sees Cole's mother, and the animation is clearly based on Jackie.

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  8. #008

    Among the bobbleheads on the shelf in Summer's room are Bob Ross and Chubbs (Carl Weathers) from Happy Gilmore (1996).

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  9. #009

    Tuataras cannot climb walls and do not have sling-style tongues. They are also not found in America. In terms of design, Leo is closer to an iguana, which does not have the features mentioned above.

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  10. #010

    This is Adam Sandler's first animated film outside Sony Animation's Hotel Transylvania series since Eight Crazy Nights (2002), twenty-one years earlier, and it was again made by Sandler's own production company, Happy Madison Productions. It is also his first animated film not made by Columbia Pictures and distributed by Sony Pictures Releasing.

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  11. #011

    As Leo recalls all his years in the classroom, the very first one, 1949, includes footage of the New York Yankees. In 1949, the Yankees, led by a young Yogi Berra and an older Joe DiMaggio, won the first of five consecutive World Series, a feat never accomplished before or since.

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  12. #012

    The most alternative ideas for the history fair were in Cole #1. Designs were made for him dressed as Martin Luther King, Huey P. Newton, Prince, Jimi Hendrix, David Bowie and Elton John; in the final film he dresses as Frederick Douglass.

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  13. #013

    Jada's dresser has American Girl Dolls on it.

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  14. #014

    This is Adam Sandler's first fully computer-animated film outside the Hotel Transylvania series to be rated PG by the MPAA, as opposed to Eight Crazy Nights (2002), which was rated PG-13 and was fully traditionally animated.

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  15. #015

    Character designer Jackie Droujko went through numerous alternative designs for the children's history fair costumes; for example, Summer could have dressed as Ruth Bader Ginsburg or Jane Goodall, but chose Betsy Ross.

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Characters & Cast (1)

  1. #016

    In the second animated film from Sandler's production company Happy Madison Productions, he takes on a voice role alongside Bill Burr, Cecily Strong and Jason Alexander.

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Sources & editorial notes

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