Hotel Transylvania, review - Telegraph U cert, 91 min Dir: Genndy Tartakovsky; starring Adam Sandler, Selena Gomez, Andy Samberg, Kevin James (voices) Is this how vampires are represented nowadays?" groans Count Dracula, cloaked, fanged and heavily accented, as he catches a glimpse of a Twilight film on an in-flight video screen. It's a bearably funny joke, but it feels a bit rich coming from Hotel Transylvania, which appropriates the vampire mythos in a far more banal way than Stephenie Meyer's moony teen romances did. This frenzied 3D cartoon was commissioned by Sony Pictures Animation in 2006, and since then a total of five writers and six directors have tried to knock it into shape. The sixth and final director is Genndy Tartakovsky, whose television work (Dexter's Laboratory, The Powerpuff Girls) has a distinctive angular oddness, although here the corners have been sanded off. Adam Sandler voices Dracula, who runs a luxury retreat for monsters, offering respite from pitchfork-waving yokels. When his teenage daughter Mavis (Selena Gomez) falls for a mortal backpacker (Andy Samberg) who stumbles on the resort, father and daughter must team up to hide the unwelcome guest. The ensuing mayhem is somehow dull and exhausting all at once, and the central concept (monsters who fear humans) was explored with far more wit and elegance in Pixar's timeless Monsters, Inc.