An average movie

In fact, I saw the rest of this franchise with my youngest daughter but, 5 years later, it seems that she outgrew this franchise. As a matter of fact, when I mentioned this movie to her, she couldn’t even remember watching them. Anyway, since I didn’t care much about the 2 previous installments, I wasn’t expecting much from this new sequel but since it was available on Netflix, I thought I might as well check it out on my own. Well, to be honest, I thought it was slightly more enjoyable than the previous movies in this franchise but I’m not sure if it was because it was actually better or because I was finally getting used to this formula at this point. Indeed, as usual, the whole thing was pretty random with just way too many characters involved. However, I think that, this time around, they did manage to tone down the insufferable hysteria which has always been a major trademark in this franchise (or maybe, like I said before, I finally got used to it). On the other hand, the cruise was actually a decent idea to finally get these characters out of this hotel and still keeping a similar vibe. I mean, for exemple, let’s take the ‘Madagascar’ franchise, except for the first installment, none of the sequels had actually anything to do with the actual Madagascar island. At least, to go from a hotel to a cruise was not such a ridiculous stretch. Unsurprisingly, this time around, they also went to find a new partner for Dracula which was bound to happen at some point but, at least, Ericka Van Helsing was not a bad choice. Anyway, to conclude, even if the damned thing was rather harmless, I didn’t care much for this flick and I don’t think it is really worth a look, except maybe if you really like this genre.

5/10