Kraken

“	♪ There's a place you gotta be a thousand leagues beneath the sea and it's waitin' over here for you and me Gonna take you for the ride but first you gotta come inside Get ready, for the party's on tonight! ♪	”
	— Kraken sings and welcomes the monsters to Atlantis.

Kraken
Background information
Feature films	Hotel Transylvania 3: Summer Vacation
Voice	Joe Jonas
Inspiration	Kraken Tamatoa Doctor Octavius Brine
Character information
Full name	Kraken
Other names	Giant Kraken
Personality	Normal: Happy-go-lucky, goofy, caring, sweet, patient, helpful, gentle, musical, comical, enthusiastic, silly, vain, nice, friendly, laid-back, mischievous, jolly, zany, smart, devoted, charming When hypnotized: Violent, power-hungry, destructive, dangerous, reckless, ruthless, kooky, still mischievous, powerful, angry, short-tempered, wild, savage, vicious, evil, arrogant, impatient, blind, insecure, explosive, dramatic, insane, mad, mean, loud
Appearance	Massive blue sea creature with long and sharp teeth
Occupation	Crooner
Affiliations	Good Bad (hypnotized)
Home	The Ocean Atlantis
Allies	Abraham Van Helsing (formerly), Kelsey, Vlad Dracula, Jonathan Loughran, Count Dracula, Ericka Van Helsing (formerly)
Enemies	Other monsters (formerly)
Likes	Singing, dancing, and sleeping
Dislikes	Being brainwashed, getting waked up
Powers and abilities	Singing
Weapons	Tentacles Teeth
Fate	Gets freed from Van Helsing's control, and waves goodbye to the cruise ship
Quote	"It's Party Time!"

Kraken is a supporting character in Hotel Transylvania 3: Summer Vacation. He sings the song called "It's Party Time", to the passengers, on the cruise ship.

Background

Appearance

The Kraken is a massive blueish-purple sea creature with a huge mouth withed with long, sharp teeth. He has two big, black eyes and His numerous tentacles are shown to be larger than the Legacy.

Personality

The Kraken is shown to be very charming, friendly, and helpful towards the passengers onboard the ship, only wishing to sing and perform for them all. Under the influence of the Instrument of Destruction, however, the Kraken becomes more mindless, vicious, and destructive and would attack anybody on sight. However, if affected by catchier music, he will break out of his trance and happily dance along.

It's implied that he, under the spell of the Instrument's music, was the initial cause of Atlantis's destruction, as someone must have played it for any reason.

Hotel Transylvania 3: Summer Vacation

The Kraken first emerges from under the sea when the Legacy cruise ship arrives at Atlantis. At first, the monsters are afraid, but when, he pulls out a giant microphone and greets the monsters on board by singing them a song, the tourists feel better; some of them even appear to find him attractive. He carries the ship over to debarkation area and the monsters arrive in a in hallway that leads to a huge casino. The excited monsters rush to gamble just as Kraken finishes his song and winks at the camera.

Later, Kraken is sleeping in his bed under the sea. However, Abraham uses the music sheet from inside the Instrument of Destruction to play a melody that awakens and hypnotizes Kraken, making his eyes twitch in beat with the music and turn into an orange-red color. Kraken emerges from the ocean and begins to violently attack the monsters, who are now at a party on a small island near the rest of Atlantis. Dracula attempts to stop him, but the Kraken quickly injures and nearly suffocates Dracula with his tentacles. Mavis attempts to fly to her father and save him, but Kraken grabs Mavis and slams her back down onto the floor.

Having seen enough, Ericka jumps onto Tinkles and rides up Kraken's tentacle to save Dracula and lands onto one of the Kraken's eyes, releasing Dracula, the two landing on a ledge. After Ericka confesses her love for Dracula, Abraham commands Kraken to attack the two and they are shoved across the floor. Johnny then picks Drac up and instructs him to use his power to enhance Johnny's upbeat and happy DJ music to combat the mind controlling music. These attempts work temporarily, but Abraham's music proves to be too strong. After the second attempt, he makes Kraken take off the chunk where Drac and Johnny are and prepares to eat them. Luckily, Johnny finds the Macarena song and Drac just as Kraken throws the chunk into his mouth. This catchy tune proves to work, freeing Kraken from Abraham's control as well as shredding the ancient music sheet. Kraken brings Drac and Johnny back to the ground and everyone dances along.

Kraken is last seen waving goodbye to the cruise ship as it sails back home.

Concept Art

Concept Art for Kraken

Stills

The monsters are frightened by the Kraken

Kraken welcomes the monsters to Atlantis

Van Helsing hypontizes the Kraken

The hypnotized Kraken roars very loudly; about to kill all the monsters

The hypnotized kraken tries to suffocate Dracula.

Videos

HOTEL TRANSYLVANIA 3 Movie Clip "Welcome To Atlantis"

Trivia

• Kraken is the largest monster in the series.
• He's also the strongest monster in the series, shown to be capable of destroying the bridge to Atlantis with ease, as well as overpowering every monster inside including Dracula and Mavis.
• Kraken has no dialogue throughout the movie, in fact he is silent and he only sings.
• There were three different animation models for the Kraken: the standard version, seen in most shots in the film, the "Kraken Mac", used in the shot where he does the Macarena, and a model for close-up shots called "Stuntacle", which added extra texture to his body and tentacles and had more animation controls.
• It was David Foster and Michael Bublé (Songwriters of "It's Party Time") who had the idea of having Joe Jonas sing the Kraken's song. Bublé is known for singing in a 1950s crooner style and had Jonas do the same.

References

https://www.vfxvoice.com/hotel-transylvania-3-the-making-of-a-giant-singing-kraken/

https://orangemagazine.ph/2018/joe-jonas-gets-kraken-in-hotel-transylvania-3-a-monster-vacation/

See also

• Giant Octopus from 1st film