who I am

Felipe 2022-10-29 14:13:46

Occasionally, I heard from my classmates that "Hotel Elf 2" was good, so I went to the cinema to watch this movie. I haven't seen the first one before, and it was a very lively scene at the beginning.
I like the painting style of the characters in it, very Europeans like it, and each character has a distinct personality; the development of the story is relatively compact and reasonable; there are many funny points in the details, and now I still remember that Count Dracula used his own long The phone screen on the fingernails is buzzing but it can't be operated.
The main contradiction in this film is that little Dennis with curly yellow hair - the crystallization of human and vampire. In the world of monsters, he did not show his potential as a descendant of threatening vampires. His monster relatives have been looking forward to and exploring his potential; but in the short time with his human relatives, he found that he could not talk to them. Come and feel alone. Mavis thinks Dennis is a human being, and is worried that he is not conducive to his growth in such a living environment and wants to live him in a human life; while his grandfather Dracula has been trying to develop his potential, and he is reluctant to bear him Leave the Elf Inn. Fortunately, his little werewolf friends don't care about his identity and give him safety and friendship. In the end, under the circumstances of dangerous incentives and danger to his friends, his vampire potential broke out, all contradictions were resolved, and he even influenced his old and stubborn grandfather!
The movie has a happy ending, but the way the movie solves this contradiction is to put the little guy into a certain group of vampires-human beings. Dennis grew up in an environment full of ghosts. The characteristics of group cognition are composed of ghosts, so he can't play with his human cousins, and he does not show the characteristics of vampires, but he gradually feels the difference between himself and this group and is confused about his identity. It becomes a vampire, and the contradiction disappears. Although in the second part, the elf hotel accepts human guests, and has developed many functions based on technology and human hobbies, and ghosts have also begun to use mobile phones and other technological products developed by humans; while human society has many peripherals developed around ghosts Products such as theme parks, movies, toys, etc. It seems that the two have merged properly, but this kind of fusion is only superficial, it is a kind of curiosity about the other party, and the enthusiasm displayed is also a manifestation of seeking differences or conformity, and cultural identity in the heart. Here, the two are distinct: humans cannot bite like werewolves, and they are not ghosts without special abilities. Neither Mevis (at Jonathan's parents' house) nor Dennis fail in the transition process, and Dennis is the only character in the entire film who survives well between the two groups because he There's no entanglement - he's always been human, and he's on the weaker side of his family relationship with Mavis, and the new human ideas he brings to the Elf Inn make him a little more interesting to the goblin community. meaning and function. His good-natured nature and his ability to bring something new allows him to live comfortably in the hordes of ghosts, but note that to the ghosts he's still Mavis' human husband.
There is nothing wrong with such a solution in the movie. In real life, this problem is so difficult to solve and tangled in human beings for generations. If a movie can give people inspiration on this problem, it must be a very good one. Meaningful film, if this film can pay attention to this problem and let the audience pay attention to this problem, it is not a failure~


View more about Hotel Transylvania 2 reviews

Extended Reading

Hotel Transylvania 2 quotes

  • Murray: [from trailer] Please don't kill me

    Vlad: Talking toilet paper... well that's a new one

  • [from a TV Spot]

    Winnie: Dennis I love you

    [knocks him to the floor]

    Winnie: ZING

    Dennis: [gets to his feet] Hi Winnie

    Winnie: [climbs onto his head] I just love your yummy strawberry locks

    [lifts him over her head and throws him onto the floor]

    Winnie: ZING... ZING!

    Dennis: Woahh

    [laughs as she licks him]