A Babysitters Guide to Monster Hunting 2020

Tamara Smart has a pleasing on-screen presence, though, as our guide through the movie’s dark, underground world. She plays a high school freshman named Kelly, although everyone derisively calls her Monster Girl because of a story she’s told about the scary creature who visited her in the night when she was a child. The mean girls and sweet nerds alike speak to each other in the cutesy, stilted way adults think teens talk in Ballarini’s adapted script. (“Pump the brakes, Casanova,” is the kind of cringey thing these people say to each other.) “Babysitter’s Guide” is also one of those movies in which a character who is as intelligent, kind, and beautiful as Kelly is supposedly an outcast.