This Halloween, we're going out 'Hotel Transylvania' style...

So Hotel Transylvania won our household's vote for best "scary" (but not too much) fall movie. I guess the prospects of ParaNorman and Frankenweenie on DVD can RIP in this graveyard. (I felt both of those were better suited for the older crowd.) Check out my kids' cute Halloween costumes, "Mavis," "Bell Hop," and "Frank," straight from the Hotel Transylvania lobby... Not only are they cute, but they claim they're pretty comfortable-- Yes! So this year, they may remain in costume past the third house while trick-or-treating...(available at Spirit Halloween stores and Toys 'r Us, ranging from $19.99-24.99.)

Look at my Mavis, trying to be all sassy like she's 118... And here's my latest Family Film Review of the flick, as it ran in the Entertainment section of The OC Register:

'Hotel Transylvania' proves the best check-in for the whole family - The Orange County Register

Amidst a fall trifecta of animated horror, Sony’s ‘Hotel Transylvania’ scores as the biggest crowd pleaser for the family audience, both at the box office and from the mouths of babes who can handle a little Boo. Though less critically alluring (it is Sandler) and technically complicated than its stop motion rivals ‘ParaNorman’ and ‘Frankenweenie,’ ‘Hotel Transylvania’s’ tickets sales prove to studios that if a young family is looking for an animated fright night, they’re hoping not to invite the monsters back home with them for a round of nightmares.

Hotel Transylvania hosts a large ensemble of pleasantly animated funny-scary characters, including classics Frankenstein (Kevin James), the Invisible Man (David Spade), and of course Count Dracula (Adam Sandler), who has built a spectacular resort to shelter his beloved daughter Mavis (Selena Gomez) from their ghastly human counterparts. All’s well until a charmingly bumbly human breezes through the revolving door just as same-aged Mavis is looking to spread her bat wings and explore the world beyond her father’s safe haven on her 118th birthday...READ THE REST HERE:

'Hotel Transylvania' proves the best check-in for the whole family - The Orange County Register