The final installment of the Hotel Transylvania franchise is finally here! Sony Pictures canceled the theatrical release and sold the film for $100 million dollars to Amazon Studios. Is the final chapter worth a watch?

Drac and his monstrous friends are back on a new adventure that will have you on the edge of your seat! When Van Helsing’s newest mysterious invention, the “Monsterificaiton Ray” goes out of control and transforms Drac and his monster friends into Humans and Marvis’s husband Johnny into a monster, they all must come together to find a way to stop the transformations from becoming permanent. Will they find their happily ever after?

What’s great about the final Hotel Transylvania film is the family topics it delivers. Drac is challenged to see the importance of opening to others and seeing the good in everything and everyone. With Drac turning into a human, he is able to see things in a different way. Directors Jennifer Kluska and Derek Drymon decide to attempt to focus the last film on the relationship between Drac and Marvis’s husband Johnny and they are quite successful. Their choice is unique as many family films don’t show a story about a father and a son-in-law. That’s what makes this movie quite special.

Another great aspect of the new film is the beautiful animation. Drac is Human and is able to see light. Kluska and Drymon decide to take the story to South America. It is beautiful to see with vivid colors. As for talent, Brian Hull captures what we loved about Drac. Although Sandler isn’t back for the final film, Hull does well being the control-freak audiences love with his sharp responses and his good intentions. Selena Gomez who plays Mavis is an executive producer is good, but not great. Her voice tends to stay in the same range throughout the story, making Mavis kind of boring. If you didn’t know Gomez’s younger sister, Victoria Gomez voices Young Mavis. Cool Easter Egg? eh!?

The last film reaches its goal by providing the same unique humor, gaggy, and ridiculous (There is butt crack in this one!) moments that have kept its audience happy since the first film. “Hotel Transylvania” ends now, but will always live to be a film franchise that created laughs, tears, offer life lessons, and happiness!

“Hotel Transylvania: Transformania” premieres Jan. 14 on Prime Video.