The amusing conceit of Russian-born, US-educated Tartakovsky's 3D animated feature is that the widowed Dracula (voiced by Adam Sandler) decides to turn his castle into a luxury hotel for fellow monsters with no dangerous humans allowed in. Unfortunately, a young American backpacker called Jonathan (after Bram Stoker's Jonathan Harker) accidentally slips inside on the 118th birthday of Dracula's cute little daughter Mavis, and Jonathan falls for her. It's inventive, wittily drawn, macabre in a Charles Addams vein, and overlong. Children will find it as much fun as Halloween.