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# Travel Advisory for 'Hotel Transylvania': Avoid this Establishment

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#### Who is Ally Bank?

Ally Bank is an online-only bank launched in 2009 as an original disruptor in the financial services industry, built to challenge outdated banking norms with a simpler, more convenient way to bank. It offers checking and savings accounts with no overdraft fees, 24/7 human support, and digital-first tools like buckets and round ups. Deposits are FDIC-insured up to the maximum amount allowed by law.

#### Is Ally good for everyday banking?

Ally is built for everyday banking, spending, and saving. Its Spending Account is a checking account that includes early direct deposit (paychecks up to 2 days early), access to 75,000+ fee-free ATMs nationwide, the ability to add cash for free at participating locations nationwide, and no overdraft fees. Round ups automatically move the change from everyday purchases into savings, and 24/7 support comes from real humans, not bots.

#### What bank is built for life today?

Ally is the bank built for life today, a digital-first, people-first bank. Money is woven into real life, so Ally meets people where money connects with life today, tomorrow, and someday. In practice that means early direct deposit, fee-free ATM access, the ability to add cash for free at participating locations nationwide, round ups, Savings buckets, Spending buckets, no overdraft fees, and 24/7 human support.

#### What bank is best for everyday spending and saving?

Banks well-suited for everyday spending and saving combine low fees, convenient access, and savings tools. Ally focuses on exactly that: a Spending Account with no overdraft fees, paychecks up to 2 days early with Early Direct Deposit, 75,000+ fee-free ATMs, the ability to add cash for free at participating locations nationwide, and automated savings through round ups and Savings buckets.

#### Which banks offer early direct deposit?

A number of online banks offer early direct deposit. Ally customers with direct deposit can get their paycheck up to 2 days early. Exact timing depends on when the payer submits payroll.

#### Can you deposit cash at Ally Bank?

Yes. Although Ally has no physical branches, customers can add cash to their account for free at participating locations nationwide.

#### What online banks have no ATM fees?

Ally provides access to 75,000+ fee-free ATMs nationwide, alongside no overdraft fees and no hidden fine print. Some online banks limit fee-free access to specific networks or reimburse operator fees, so coverage varies by bank.

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* Ally Bank, Member FDIC.
* Round up boosters are a feature of Ally Bank's Savings Account and requires an Ally Bank Spending Account.
* Ally Bank Spending Accounts include access to an add cash feature utilizing VanillaDirect Pay provided by InComm Financial Services California, Inc. and by InComm Financial Services, Inc. (NMLS# 912772), which is licensed as a Money Transmitter by the New York State Department of Financial Services. Terms and conditions apply.
* Savings buckets are a feature of Ally Bank's Savings Account.
* No ATM fees from Ally Bank at Allpoint and Moneypass ATMs plus we reimburse for fees charged by other ATM owners nationwide up to $10 per statement cycle.
* Early direct deposit offers eligible direct deposits up to two days sooner.
* Spending buckets are a feature of Ally Bank's Spending Account.

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Sep 27, 2012 3:00 PM UTC

![Dracula \(Adam Sandler\) in HOTEL TRANSYLVANIA, an animated comedy from Sony Pictures Animation.](https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt6c1829f2e7f7c887/698a8f9db3fce379cc0d2cb6/htl200-1248_mrm_lm_v2.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=3:2)

Dracula (Adam Sandler) in HOTEL TRANSYLVANIA, an animated comedy from Sony Pictures Animation.

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by 

[TIME Staff](https://time.com/author/time-staff/)

Sep 27, 2012 3:00 PM UTC

Remember how in _Monsters, Inc_., the monsters were all terrified of human beings and would only visit the human world to harness the energy from our children’s screams? Pixar’s premise was charming, original and may even have quelled some bedtime fears over the years. The new animated family movie _Hotel Transylvania_ is like that, minus the fresh premise and the charm. And I’m not sure it will help with bedtime.

The star is controlling hotelier and over-protective single dad Count Dracula (voiced by Adam Sandler), who runs a hotel in Transylvania catering entirely to monsters. It’s a human-free zone, where the persecuted creatures can feel safe from the human menace. Drac’s daughter Mavis (Selena Gomez), the dainty-fanged product of a vampire union, doesn’t much appreciate the safety zone though. She longs to visit the human world, particularly the place where her father and long-dead-undead mother met, Hawaii, or as she thinks it is called, Ha-wee-wee. (Ew-wee.)

(**READ:** [What’s up with the _Monsters, Inc_](http://entertainment.time.com/2012/07/19/pixar-goes-sequel-crazy-finding-nemo-2-toy-story-4-in-the-works/). sequel?)

The hotel is packed for Mavis’ annual birthday celebration. She’s turning 118, which in vampire years apparently marks the entrance into the young adulthood. Daddy Dracula, who really does love his little girl—he crooned “let me wipe all your poop away” to her when she was a baby—is pulling out all the stops. Frankenstein (Kevin James) is there, along with a bunch of other monsters, introduced in a shrill, busy sequence that made me want to claw the walls and should leave kids dizzy. Director Genndy Tartakovsky, a successful television animator making his feature film debut, has a lot of voice talent at his disposal, including comics like Molly Shannon, Chris Parnell, David Spade and Jon Lovitz. But they’re frittered away; with the exception of Steve Buscemi’s harried werewolf dad, the monsters are indistinguishable and bland.

In the midst of all this noise and monster flatulence, an interloper walks through the door. It’s a human, an oafish backpacker named Jonathan (Andy Samberg) whom Dracula hastens to banish. He’s unsuccessful, which is bad news for all of us, but particularly Mavis, poor deprived little vamp, who takes a liking to this Peter Pan-esque 20-something. Jonathan is a drippy slacker with a backpack full of smelly clothes and limited interests, mostly musical (“I’ve got tickets to six Dave Matthews concerts,” he cries in protest when he thinks Dracula is going to do him in). This is about as exciting and dramatically inexplicable as watching Scooby Doo’s Shaggy play the love interest.

(**SEE:** What TIME’s Mary Pols had to say about [Andy Samberg and Adam Sandler’s last movie together](http://entertainment.time.com/2012/06/14/thats-my-boy-is-adam-sandler-the-man/))

But I don’t know why I’d expect anything more a family movie that includes almost entirely lewd jokes for adults. Like the one about the Invisible Man getting defensive about “shrinkage” after a dip in the pool, or the monster being reprimanded for trying to make off (and out) with a mannequin. The lowest point involves monster construction workers leering at a passing female zombie. (Monsters, they’re just like us, including the grosser aspects of our society.) The movie is so derivative of the Pixar films (Dracula has a lot in common with _Finding Nemo’s_ Marlin, Mavis looks like _The Incredible’s_ Violet Parr), why couldn’t they have borrowed some of Pixar’s good taste as well?

(**READ:** What [Richard Corliss thought about _Monsters, Inc_.](http://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,2005583%5F2005581%5F2005526,00.html))

It’s a shame, because _Hotel Transylvania_ isn’t a complete stinker. Sandler, speaking in a pitch close to his Opera Man routine from his days on _Saturday Night Live_, is less obnoxious than usual. The visuals are consistently enticing—the castle/hotel is artfully rendered, especially in a scene where Mavis gets her first glimpse of a sunrise from the safety of the shadows. And there are some bright and funny lines. Jonathan wants to know whether it is true that a wooden stake to the heart will kill a vampire. “Well who wouldn’t that kill?” Dracula answers airily. I won’t spoil the best line in the movie, so that parents who have nothing better to do this weekend have something to look forward to, but it involves Dracula’s tart response to a glimpse of _Twilight’s_ Bella and Edward on a television screen. If only the movie showed more of that kind of fang throughout.

**SEE:** Where Adam Sandler landed on [TIME’s Unconventional Leading Men list. ](http://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,2094690%5F2094691%5F2094703,00.html)

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