Summering – Review
87 Minutes, Rated PG-13
Written by Benjamin Percy and James Ponsoldt
Directed by James Ponsoldt
Synopsis:
During their last days of summer and childhood — the weekend before middle school begins — four girls struggle with the harsh truths of growing up and embark on a mysterious adventure.
Four tween girls have an adventure over the last weekend of summer before starting middle school.
Having never been a tween girl nor having had a summer adventure, this one was rough to sit through.
One part Stand By Me (the dead body) and one part Now and Then, Summering suffers most from the fact the performances are just mediocre. This is a disappointing story, filled with silly dialogue and sillier decisions made by every single character.
There are no men in the film, apart from the dead man and one of our four’s absent father, who appears just long enough to remind us that men suck, but even the girls’ moms are ridiculously dumb.
That said, I found myself more enamored of the end of the movie when the mothers get together and lament their own lost/forgotten childhoods in the mists of aging.
Said every parent ever.
That’s a storyline that should have run parallel to the girls’ adventures as they avoided them while investigating the dead man.
But maybe that’s just me.
Summering hits theaters August 12? and stars Lia Barnett, Lake Bell, Sarah Cooper, Ashley Madekwe, Madalen Mills, Megan Mullally, Eden Grace Redfield, and Sanai Victoria.
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