VampirellaToday we review Hotel Transylvania.

 

Delicious film, a good classic story: a love separated from diversity, the theme of the outsider most human of humans, all seasoned with so much and healthy irony…
Recommended for young and old.

The film was screened in 3D, although penalized by a reframing(1) that spoiled at times the effect of depth, but pleasant and well set in general.
Why am I talking about this movie? Well, it relates to the weight talk. Here the animation, which is not for visual effects, but to tell, is very well built and balanced.
The weight of each character is always felt and anyway, At no time do you notice something that does not work, yet it is total fantasy, elements without direct links with reality, but also flying witches, when they move, stop, start again, have the right weight, the right inertia, etc. etc.
In short, the film is animated by animators, they are not enchanted by motion capture, by the algorithms of muscle calculation, and all the rest of the cold technology… And yet everything works…

Sometimes you have to break away from the virtual world, and take a ride in the real world, to reproduce something really fantastic, because only the imagination, the skill of man, can make us really dream.

My dispassionate suggestion is… buy the bluray, it is a good edition and appreciate at every level this movie, the little ones will enjoy the story, the older will read higher levels of content in a very beautiful story. There are great deals for this bluray on Amazon.

 

(1) Framing is the creation of the frame, so how and where the camera is placed, the lens used etc.
Re-framing is the barbaric TV habit and recently in many cinemas where to fill the screen (it is not known by what sick need) in width, they scale the film by often cutting up and down. 

If this practice is already deleterious in 2D, in 3D often breaks some rules of the floating window, and then interrupts the illusion of extrusion of objects from the screen, bothering and often leading the viewer to malaise. 

In some films I found myself watching characters talking headless, because they cut a movie in 1.85 on a screen at 2.40, that is, you cut over and below almost a quarter of the total image… It was Ice Age 3 in the multiplexes, for example.