Proving once again that, with the exception of Punch-Drunk Love, Adam Sandler is at his most tolerable when you can’t see him, this perfunctory animation sequel provides innocuous pre-Halloween/half-term distraction. Throwaway jokes about Young Frankenstein and Bram Stoker’s Dracula (“What’s that on your head? It looks like a baboon’s butt!”) are included to keep the parents happy while the youngsters empathise with the fish-out-of-water tribulations of a half-man/half-monster child, the latest addition to the Transylvanian family. Mel Brooks provides some lively shtick as old school “grampire” Vlad, who has no truck with this post-Twilight, human-loving modern nonsense.
