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The Ending is such a slap in the face and a let down

posted 9 years ago by Therru_Babayaga
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Obvious spoilers ahead.

Ok, I didn't think this movie was great, just ok and harmless, at least until the end. The first one was more entertaining, had a bit more heart and different situations, and much more energy. I would have particularly liked to see more of the great grand father, and not just in the climax. I was expecting him a lot sooner and to be a bigger part in the movie, it would have made the conflict more interesting. But I digress.

What really killed my semi-enjoyment of the film was when they decided to make the kid a vampire.

I mean, why? They spend the whole film trying to make Drac comes to term that not everything will always go his way, and that he has to accept that his daughter will have to leave to start her family life on their own at one point or another and that the kid will not turn out to be exactly how he hopes to, but that's ok because he loves him anyway. I also thought it was very sweet how the young werewolf girl was still loving Denis despite the fact that he was a human. This was good messages and a theme that I thought the movie handled quite well.

However, when the kid became a vampire, everything became meaningless and pointless. Denis was just another part of this world, he had no more conflict to go through, Drac got everything he wanted (his daughter and his grand son "had" to stay with him now) and even the great grand father was again a part of the family.

So the message is "we will accept you and love you no matter who you are, but still less that if you become everything we always expected of you".

Really dissapointing, it's like if at the end of "Shrek 2", Fiona and Shrek had stayed humans...

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[–] jal2358 9 years ago

The message is family is strong. Stay together and you're even stronger.

[–] watcher101 9 years ago

Drac wasn't the only one who wanted Dennis to be something he wasn't. Johnny's family, though they didn't play that big of a role, wanted him to be human. Johnny was fine with who and what his son was, and so was Mavis, but Mavis felt the need to protect him from the world, much like her father did her. She assumed he was a human and didn't give him the chance to be anything else.

Drac wanted Dennis to be a vampire, but he was pushing to hard, wanting to believe he was a vampire. He did tis for 2 reasons. 1) Most parents/grandparents want their children/grandchildren to be like them. 2) He didn't want to lose his family because then he'd be all alone. This was even addressed in the film. He knew that if Dennis was human, then Mavis, being as overprotective as she was, was going to move to a "safer" human community, and he didn't want to lose his family.

As for Dennis, no one asked him what he wanted. Drac was trying to get him to be a vampire, and Mavis was treating him like a human but being far too protective. In the end, it was Dennis' choice. Like his father, he wanted to stay at the hotel, he wanted to be a vampire. In the end, everyone got what they wanted. Drac got to keep his family together, Vlad came to accept humans, Johnny and his family got to stay at the hotel, Mavis no longer needs to be so overprotective (and thus can spend more time with her husband whom she was neglecting), Dennis got to be a vampire like he wanted (and stay at the hotel and be with Winnie), and Johnny's family came to accept monsters.

[–] Kent_Kainer 9 years ago

Well I hoped all along that Dennis would turn into a vampire, but as closer to the end as more I thought that it'd would ruin the message.
In the first place even as human he should stay at the hotel, it's what he wanted and what his dad wanted too... but apparently he has no balls to speak up. The hotel and their guests and workers are meant to get used to humans anyway and Drac's friends already turned out as quite harmless already. Jonathan is a human too and still lives. So the path would be to sensitive the monsters there to accept and consider the humans and their weaker nature.

The other point was, as you said, to accept sth even when it's weak and not like what you wish for. But Drac already accepted it and his grandfather Vlad did partly so too by saving a human.

What annoyed me most was the sudden violence once Dennis turned into a vampire. He seemed like a pacifist with his'all monsters share and everybody's good and friends' way of thinking. And then he turned into the battle mode and feeling cool and having fun kicking the bats.
What the...
Who was that and what's he done with Dennis? >.>
Bleh

Till that ending I thought that the sequel was actually much better than the first one.

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[–] watcher101 9 years ago

He was fighting what for he wanted and believed in while throughout the entire movie he had been letting others push him around, decided for him, and was a bit of a coward.

[–] Kent_Kainer 9 years ago

Well, see his dad.
And he was the goodie, goodie kid. The tv show he watched was just like Barney & Friends. And he was all into it.

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[–] flmitchell-261-71742 9 years ago

Vlad, Drac and the rest, were trying to scare Dennis into going Vamp, but he didn't go into "Monster Mode", until Winnie was attacked.

His.... ZING, was hurt, and the strong emotions changed him.

[–] TitoVicandJoey 8 years ago

I agree. In the end they had to resort to violence to solve their problem. I didn't like the end message and the story was some what enjoyable before that. It was like they didn't have a way to end it so they just went with fighting and even worse fighting their own instead of trying to find a better solution. So now they message is if someone dosent except you for who you are...beat them up.

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[–] TheFatDruidofNacyl 9 years ago

As I said before it has a Sky High feel with the hero starting out as normal but then gains all the power. I think it has a bit of a Twilight feel as far as everything working out and no changes need to be made.

I accepted the ending since Drac deed accept him as just being human before he went full vampire. Although I think he shouldn't have turned into Super-vampire and instead focused more on everyone working together to beat the villains.

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[–] IMDB_Vits 8 years ago

DRAC accepted DENNIS as a human before he became a vampire. You're right that the ending has that bad "Having the cake and eating it too" feel* because it would've been better if DENNIS had stayed a human. And VLAD's transition into acceptance was too rushed.

*It also happened this year in LITTLE BOY, which also featured Kevin James. Coincidence?

[–] saieerr 8 years ago

Somehow agreed with you. This movie missed lot s of good stuff. It was just a flat story and less of humor as compare to first one. I guess what was a mistake in this movie was combining human and monster world together. I would have enjoyed it more if human were still scared of monsters.