Fun movie with nice jokes about the most classic monsters. Analyzing its narrative's contribution to social change, though, I can not help being disappointed at the maintenance of gender patterns. Unfortunately, it misses many opportunities for presenting children to a different perspective on gender education.

The movie starts being very promising around this subject! We see a young Mavis who loves her father, but is curious and rebel enough to face him in case of abuse. When the masculine abuse of power finally happens, the narrative shows how wrong it is for a father to be a control freak over his children (mostly female ones), and I got very happy about that. After that, we see Dracula doing everything that he can to control his daughter continuously, and that is portrayed as comic relief, as it should be funny. Amidst, we get to know a young boy - so desperately drawned into his young masculinity - that he acts completely stupid about anything he sees, sexually harasses Mavis, acts inconvenient over and over, does not respect the "monsters" space, makes fun of their peculiarities (remembering that monsters are a portrait of society's misfits), and all this shit-show is presented as funny to kids. And so the film goes, giving more space for us to get to know a controlling father and a toxic lover-to-be, than the character we really wanted to know a little better: its monster young girl. It is as if I was watching two men trying to figure out a way to make women believe they had a context so convincing that we should feel sorry and forgive their abuses. It educates young children to see always TOO MUCH of the masculine narrative and be content with TOO LITTLE of the feminine part. In the end, the girl, who should be the protagonist of the movie and has a dream to know the infinity of possibilities of her immortality around the planet, finds herself in a romanticized relationship with the only boy of "her age" and gets himas a present to travel around with her, leading young female spectators to see a custody transfer from a man to another as a happy ending. Exactly the same freaking story of Ariel, Mulan, and so many other brilliant dreamers of children's movies. Not to forget that everything is solved by the father and his male old friends, while Mavis stays crying in a lone castle.

Absolutely disappointed.