YMMV / Hotel Transylvania 3: Summer Vacation

• Accidental Innuendo: Dracula's awkward attempts at taking his friend's advice in asking Ericka out fall under this territory.
  Dracula: Your delicious neck wrappings are in a nice coffin would you like to see my parts?!
• Awesome Music:
  • It may be "evil music," but the music that Helsing uses to hypnotize the Kraken, "Seavolution," is nonetheless pretty awesome and catchy, with a cool beat to it.
  • The Kraken’s song, “It’s Party Time” as well, a smooth, jazzy tune.
• Base-Breaking Character: Johnathan, once again. As before while some fans don't mind his existence or even think he's a great husband to Mavis, others find him to be a boring or annoying self-insert character whose just there to take up space. It really didn't help that he was firmly a secondary character this time around, at least until the climax.
• Best Known for the Fanservice: Why yes, there are things that happen in this movie other than the sight of Mavis in a skintight one-piece bathing suit, but you wouldn't know it from how the internet's responded.
• Broken Base: The idea of Ericka being Dracula's second zing. Some fans feel that this contradicts and cheapens the concept, since the past movies presented it as a once-in-a-lifetime thing, while others felt that it matures and improves it by showing that true love isn't limited to only one chance.
• Critical Dissonance: Despite being critically better than previous entries, audience scores for the film are also the franchise's lowest.
• Ensemble Dark Horse:
  • The female multiple-tailed fox that pops up in the movie now and again has gained some attention from fans, thanks to her appealing design and being a more unorthodox pick for a monster in a film filled with mostly well-known theatrical monsters.
  • Despite the Kraken's very minimal screentime, fans liked him due to his friendly and charismatic personality alongside his great singing voice.
• Epileptic Trees: The fan theory that Ericka is Martha's reincarnation has gained some ground.
• Fanfic Fuel: The entire "zing" mechanic hinged on the fact that it was one per customer per lifetime, and an enormous deal in the monster world. This movie throws all of that to the wind, and there's nothing holding characters back from zinging as many times as they want with whoever they want. So have at, shippers.
• Genius Bonus: The decrepit-looking plane that carries the monsters to the Bermuda Triangle is identified as "Gremlin Air Flight 19". Those up to speed on their Bermuda Triangle lore would know that Flight 19 was a group of US Navy planes that disappeared in the Triangle in 1945.
• He Really Can Act: Or rather, He Really Can Sing. Joe Jonas, who was initially known for singing pop music, provides a great vocal performance as the jazz-singing Kraken.
• Hilarious in Hindsight:
  • Ties in a bit with Irony: Johnny being the one to defeat Abraham Van Helsing. In the original concept for this show, Johnny was supposed to be a descendant of the Van Helsings. In a way, this concept of a Van Helsing marrying into Dracula's family was finally realized with Dracula.
  • This wouldn't be the last Sony Pictures Animation film where Kathryn Hahn voices a villain that serves as an aide to the Big Bad. Her character eventually turns face here, though.
• It's the Same, Now It Sucks!: It sticks to mostly the same formula as its two predecessors, though whether or not this does it favors seems to be a point of contention.
• Memetic Mutation:
  • In early 2020, a scene of Dracula getting dressed and dancing saw popularity on Twitter, with different songs placed over the original soundtrack of "24K Magic".
  • The scene in the climax where the entire cast starts dancing, with Dracula eventually joining in, is quite popular on TikTok. It's frequently set to different songs or soundtracks, and has sometimes seen use to mockingly celebrate terrible things happening to a disliked person.
• Moral Event Horizon: Abraham Van Helsing crosses this when he continues attacking Dracula, knowing full well Ericka (i.e. his own great-granddaughter) is in his line of fire. He even jokes that now the Van Helsing family tradition ends with him.
• More Popular Replacement: The villains of the prior two movies, Quasimodo and Bela, were often singled out as among the weakest points of their films, largely due to having nothing to do with the plot and not being very interesting. Ericka and Abraham Van Helsing tend to be considered much stronger antagonists due to having more fleshed out characterizations and playing off of the protagonists better.
• Narm Charm: The fact that the climax can be summed up as a DJ-battle where the day is saved by everyone doing the macarena is so stupid, yet it's so hilarious that most people don't mind. What cements it is the dopey face Tinkles makes when he does it.
• Salvaged Story: The film's premise heavily expands on the franchise's "Zing" concept, going out of its way to disprove the previously established notion that falling in love can only happen once-in-lifetime. Dracula's new romance with Erika isn't shown to devalue the love he still feels for Martha, and it allows him to find happiness again and finally achieve closure from his wife's death.
• Surprisingly Improved Sequel: To the surprise of many, the film currently has a 60% rating on Rotten Tomatoes, which is the highest in the franchise compared to the first one's 45% and the second one's 55%. The fact that this is the first one in the series to have Tartakovsky involved with the script possibly helps matters.
• Trailer Joke Decay: "Say hi, Bob." "HI BOB!" Worse still, it actually occurs twice in the movie without any variation whatsoever.

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