No better or worse an animation script than Megamind, Penguins of Madagascar or Rio, Hotel Transylvania was the first cartoon movie to hit theatres in ages that captured the antic, frantic sugar rush of Woody Woodpecker, Tom & Jerry or Bugs Bunny.
Hotel Transylvania (2012) showed what can happen when a fairly typical “what if?” script got in the hands of an animation director with a more inspired vision, in this case Genndy Tartakovsky. Even Pixar’s Inside Out, certainly a notch above the competition, is more about colour and design than movement and unpredictability. Recent financial successes such as Minions, Home and Big Hero 6 are frequently cute, but they set up their aesthetic in the first scene and usually stay enslaved to it. Animation in mainstream Hollywood features, that is. There’s irony in the fact that animation, a medium where literally anything is possible, is so frequently stale and predictable.
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