Colfax Public Library presents: “Hotel Transylvania 3 — Summer Vacation” on Saturday, October 21
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By LeAnn R. Ralph
COLFAX — Poor Dracula.
He has been depressed since his wife, Martha, died.
Dracula has been trying to meet someone new, but it never works out.
Dracula also has been running his hotel business, and his daughter, Mavis, thinks he is over-worked. She books a cruise so they can take a vacation as a family on a ship called “Legacy.”
The Colfax Public Library will be showing the animated film “Hotel Transylvania 3 — Summer Vacation” on Saturday, October 21, at 1 p.m. in the Cozy Theater at the Colfax Municipal Building.
The family-friendly movie runs a little over an hour and a half and is free and open to the public.
Part of the back-story for “Hotel Transylvania 3” is Dracula’s nemesis, Professor Abraham Van Helsing.
In 1897, Dracula and his friends travelled in disguise on a train to Budapest.
Van Helsing boards the train and reveals the monsters, who escape by climbing through the roof, and then Dracula pushes them off the train.
The professor becomes obsessed with Dracula and is trying to destroy him, but Dracula keeps outsmarting Van Helsing.
In the present day, after Mavis books the cruise, Dracula and his family and all the hotel guests board the cruise ship.
Dracula sees the ship’s captain, Ericka, and falls in love instantly. He did not think he would ever experience love at first sight again, because he had already “zinged” before.
Great-granddaughter
As it turns out, Ericka is Van Helsing’s great-granddaughter.
Van Helsing is still alive yet although most of his body is mechanized. He plans to use an Instrument of Destruction from Atlantis to destroy Dracula.
Van Helsing obtains a promise from Ericka that she will not kill Dracula before he gets a chance, but Ericka persists in making repeated attempts to do so.
When Ericka and Dracula visit a deserted island, Ericka begins to fall in love with Dracula as they learn that each lost loved ones in the past. Dracula lost his wife, Martha, and Ericka lost her parents.
The cruise ship reaches Atlantis, and Atlantis has been converted into a casino.
Destruction
Even though she is not sure she should do it, Ericka turns the Instrument of Destruction over to Van Helsing.
The Instrument of Destruction is the case for a sheet of music, and when Van Helsing plays the song, it drives a friendly Kraken living nearby to turn evil and attack the monsters.
A Kraken is a mythical sea creature that is said to live in the sea between Norway and Iceland.
Ericka manages to save Dracula, but when she confesses her love for him to Van Helsing, he attacks both of them.
To turn the evil Kraken into the friendly Kraken again, Johnny, who is Mavis’s husband and Dracula’s son-in-law, produces a DJ kit and plays songs that are positive to reverse the effects of Van Helsing’s song.
Johnny’s songs include The Beach Boys with “Good Vibrations” and Bobby McFerrin with “Don’t Worry, Be Happy.”
But Van Helsing’s music wins out and turns the Kraken back into an evil monster.
When Johnny plays the “Macarena,” the Kraken cannot resist the music and turns permanently happy.
Van Helsing’s sheet music rips itself into pieces during the process and also dances the Macarena.
When Van Helsing dances in spite of himself, he falls, but Dracula saves him.
Van Helsing ultimately apologizes to the monsters, issues a refund for the cruise, and sends them all back to the Hotel Transylvania.
Dracula proposes to Ericka at the hotel, and she accepts.
Although “Hotel Transylvania 3 — Summer Vacation” is free and open to the public, any donations that are made will go the Colfax elevator fund to install an elevator in the municipal building so that all three floors are handicapped accessible.
Popcorn and water will be available from the Colfax Commercial Club for $1 each.
