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‘Monster Summer’ Review: There Be Witches on Martha’s Vineyard in a Fun Kid-Friendly Adventure
This enjoyably mild spooky tale has juvenile leads in possible supernatural peril, variably helped or hindered by adults including Mel Gibson and Lorraine Bracco.
A genial juvenile adventure that’s equal parts “The Hardy Boys” and “Goosebumps,” “ Monster Summer ” has Mason Thames (the principal child captive in “The Black Phone”) in considerably less-disturbing peril as a Martha’s Vineyard resident who comes to suspect witchery afoot. David Henrie ’s slick exercise in lite supernatural suspense is aimed at younger viewers, though their parents may also be diverted by the cast’s elder members, including Mel Gibson, Lorraine Bracco and Kevin James. It looks like our hero will have to settle for a summer of bicycling around the island with his fellow Little League besties, star athlete Ben (Noah Cottrell), future politician Eugene (Julian Lerner) and tomboy Sammy (Abby James Witherspoon).
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