After a more than forty-year hiatus, the Tap are back. Anyone who knows the music business or knows a participant in that trade will have insider knowledge of how crazy that world can be. So, as outrageous as the activities in the first film, This Is Spinal Tap, were, know that it’s only 90% as crazy as the reality actually is. The real fun resides in that last ten per cent. 

While the first film riffed on the dysfunction that exists in almost every rock band ever, Spinal Tap II: The End Continues zeroes in on the added particulars of the band members now being four decades older. The three core band members have all settled down into farcical jobs. Guitarist Nigel Tufnel (Christopher Guest) sells cheese, second guitarist David St. Hubbins (Michael McKean) is in a mariachi band, and bassist Derek Smalls (Harry Shearer) runs a glue museum.

When the three get back together to play that last final gig after all those years, the old wounds are ripped open again. The band practice sessions are rife with tension, animosity and guest stars as both Paul McCartney and Elton John drop in to offer services. Elton and his proclivity for extravagance is used to full and hilarious effect. Slowly, the band get their groove back and things are starting to look good for the reunion show.

The humour is mostly split into two categories, the personal dynamics, which are strained due to unresolved issues and that old chestnut “musical differences”. Their misguided management team also adds a lot to the frivolities. In typical Tap fashion, things do not go smoothly, and it all builds to a disastrous finale that will make you laugh and think it completely in character.
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In their new mismatched bodies, Drac, stripped of his powers, and an exuberant Johnny, loving life as a monster, must team up and race across the globe to find a cure before it’s too late, and before they drive each other crazy. With help from Mavis and the hilariously human Drac Pack, the heat is on to find a way to switch themselves back before their transformations become permanent.

For the final chapter of the Hotel Transylvania film series, franchise creator Genndy Tartakovsky returns as screenwriter and executive producer. Selena Gomez will also serve as executive producer, while reprising her role as Drac’s daughter, Mavis, alongside Andy Samberg, returning as Johnny. The film also features Kathryn Hahn, Keegan-Michael Key, Steve Buscemi, David Spade, Brian Hull, Asher Blinkoff, Brad Abrell, Fran Drescher, Jim Gaffigan and Molly Shannon. Directed by Jennifer Kluska and Derek Drymon, executive produced by Michelle Murdocca and produced by Alice Dewey Goldstone, Hotel Transylvania: Transformania is coming soon to cinemas.
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Reunite with your favourite monsters for an all-new adventure that presents Drac with his most terrifying task yet. When Van Helsing’s mysterious invention, the ‘Monsterfication Ray,” goes haywire, Drac and his monster pals are all transformed into humans, and Johnny becomes a monster! In their new mismatched bodies, Drac, stripped of his powers, and an exuberant Johnny, loving life as a monster, must team up and race across the globe to find a cure before it’s too late, and before they drive each other crazy. With help from Mavis and the hilariously human Drac Pack, the heat is on to find a way to switch themselves back before their transformations become permanent.

For the final chapter of the Hotel Transylvania film series, franchise creator Genndy Tartakovsky returns as screenwriter and executive producer. Selena Gomez will also serve as executive producer, while reprising her role as Drac’s daughter, Mavis, alongside Andy Samberg, returning as Johnny. The film also features Kathryn Hahn, Keegan-Michael Key, Steve Buscemi, David Spade, Brian Hull, Asher Blinkoff, Brad Abrell, Fran Drescher, Jim Gaffigan and Molly Shannon. Directed by Jennifer Kluska and Derek Drymon, executive produced by Michelle Murdocca and produced by Alice Dewey Goldstone, Hotel Transylvania: Transformania is coming soon to cinemas.

Starring Andy Samberg, Selena Gomez, Kathryn Hahn, Keegan-Michael Key, Steve Buscemi, David Spade, Brian Hull, Asher Blinkoff, Brad Abrell, Fran Drescher, Jim Gaffigan and Molly Shannon, Hotel Transylvania: Transformania, will be released in cinemas September 9!

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In Sony Pictures Animation’s Hotel Transylvania 3: A Monster Vacation, join our favourite monster family as they embark on a vacation on a luxury monster cruise ship so Drac can take a summer vacation from providing everyone else’s vacation at the hotel. It’s smooth sailing for Drac’s Pack as the monsters indulge in all of the shipboard fun the cruise has to offer, from monster volleyball to exotic excursions, and catching up on their moon tans. But the dream vacation turns into a nightmare when Mavis realizes Drac has fallen for the mysterious captain of the ship, Ericka, who hides a dangerous secret that could destroy all of monsterkind.

Hotel Transylvania 3: A Monster Vacation stars Adam Sandler, Selena Gomez, Andy Samberg, Kevin James, Fran Drescher, Steve Buschemi, Molly Shannon, David Spade, Keegan-Michael Key, Mel Brooks, Kathryn Hahn and Jim Gaffigan, and is in cinemas 28 June 2018!
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It’s smooth sailing for the Drac Pack as the monsters indulge in all of the shipboard fun the cruise has to offer, from monster volleyball to exotic excursions, and catching up on their moon tans.

But the dream vacation turns into a nightmare when Mavis realizes Drac has fallen for the mysterious captain of the ship, Ericka, who hides a dangerous secret that could destroy all of monsterkind.

Starring Adam Sandler, Selena Gomez, Andy Samberg, Kevin James, Fran Drescher, Steve Buschemi, Molly Shannon, David Spade, Keegan-Michael Key, Mel Brooks – IN CINEMAS JULY 5, 2018.
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