JoeyKing reveals that she admires The Kissing Booth movies despite their negative reception. Based on the novels of the same name by Beth Reekles, The Kissing Booth franchise kicked off on Netflix in 2018 and was followed by two films, The Kissing Booth 2 in 2020 and The Kissing Booth 3 in 2021. The YA romance saga centered on King's quirky Shelly "Elle" Evans as she breaks the rule of her REVIEWFILM: The Kissing Booth 3. The Kissing Booth 3 will be the final sequel to The Kissing Booth film series. This final series of films, starring by Joey King, Joel Courtney, and Jacob Elordi, already released on Netflix in 11 August 2021.This film, which carries the romantic and comedy genres, directed by Vince Marcello, is adapted from the book of the same name by Beth Reekles. Its here that The Kissing Booth 2 tiptoes into pure absurdism, as Shelley and Lee try their hand at competitive Dance Dance Revolution. Director Vince Marcello, returning from the first film TheKissing Booth had great potential to be a body-positive, coming-of-age film, where a young woman learns about her autonomy and to not allow the men in her life to police her body. Instead, the Inbroadening the world of the first film without really deepening it, The Kissing Booth 2 often feels more like a spinoff TV series—although at an unconscionable 132 minutes long, it's hardly a breezy watch. Read full review Reviews This movie is the ideal deconstruction of all romcom cliches and trends. This movie offers an insightful critique into these kinds of movies, and correctly derides their meaning by having the cliches cranked up to max, creating a postmodernist over excess, overwhelming the viewer and exposing the irony in front of them. TheNetflix film stars Joey King as a high school student who falls in love with her best friend's brother, a relationship that is sealed in a kissing booth. The film — which has not been Thispast weekend, The Kissing Booth 2 debuted on Netflix, and it has remained in the top slot every day since. Netflix's chief content officer Ted Sarandos told Vulture that the first film was "one of the most-watched movies in the country, and maybe the world." The Kissing Booth series is a fluffy, unrealistic teen drama, stuffed with tropes and predictable dialogue. Conclusion The Kissing Booth 2 is the latest in the long line of Netflix original romantic comedies rated TV-14. Building on the story that began in 2018's The Kissing Booth, this sequel does things a bit differently from the original.While there is still plenty of sexual content here, this sequel felt marginally less creepy and somewhat sweeter.. Elle keeps her clothes on throughout most OnRotten Tomatoes, The Kissing Booth has a 15% rating. Meanwhile, sequels The Kissing Booth 2 and The Kissing Booth 3 have ratings of 27% and 25% respectively. The films also helped catapult Joey King ( The Act, Bullet Train) and Jacob Elordi ( Euphoria, Deep Water) into superstardom. 4wrc. Movie Reviews By Reviewer Type All Critics Top Critics All Audience Verified Audience Prev Next [Noah and Elle's] relationship quickly spirals into one of those classic toxic relationships that populate Netflix's teen dramas. Full Review Mar 16, 2021 A refreshing film in its start but whose interest soon decays to end up being a mediocre movie. [Full Review in Spanish] Full Review Original Score 2/5 Apr 3, 2019 The director seemed to have a strange fascination with the lead taking off her shirt and wearing super short skirts, and the camera lingered on her in ways that made me uncomfortable. Full Review Original Score F Feb 25, 2019 It feels like it was written by someone who simply digested everything she was told "romance" was supposed to be by the patriarchy, and vomited back at us. Nearly every cliché in the film feels cribbed from another movie. Full Review Jan 31, 2019 A smattering of swearing, sexual references and underage drinking means it doesn't patronise its intended audience, and it refreshingly allows the female lead to be the dork, rather than some unobtainable Venus. Full Review Original Score 3/5 Jan 8, 2019 Largely for its pre-teen audience as its flaws will likely stand out like an unwanted cold sore on prom night for those outside of its target demographic. Full Review Original Score 4/10 Jul 7, 2018 I can confirm that it's not a good film. In fact, its themes are at times unsettling. Full Review Jun 21, 2018 In another film, the sentiment would be a romantic one. In The Kissing Booth, it feels like a cage. Full Review Original Score D May 31, 2018 Allusions to The Breakfast Club in the soundtrack and the casting of Molly Ringwald certainly don't help The Kissing Booth look anything other than lazy and amateur next to other teen classics. Full Review May 28, 2018 Quirky romcom has strong language, teen drinking, sex. Full Review Original Score 3/5 May 22, 2018 Tone-shifting "cute" teen rom-com that becomes less young teen suitable and more clumsy and ham-handed, the longer it runs. Full Review Original Score 2/4 May 17, 2018 [The Kissing Booth's] troubling treatment of the female body and unrealistic representation of high school hinders its ability to accomplish anything meaningful. Full Review Original Score 1/5 May 15, 2018 The Kissing Booth is not a good movie. It is a good, drunk, mindless, late night rom-com watch, but it is not a good movie. For that, we say skip it. Full Review May 11, 2018 Prev Next Do you think we mischaracterized a critic's review? These questions and more are unceremoniously wrapped up in the final entry to its namesake saga, “The Kissing Booth 3.” To Marcello and and co-writer Jay S. Arnold’s credit, there are a handful of surprises that defy some of the more expected youthful rom-com tropes. But the rest is a lot of the same teenage romantic tribulations we’ve seen before. If “The Kissing Booth 2” was overstuffed with high school drama, its successor reaches to make the most of old tensions over the summer break. Noah is once again threatened by Marco, and Lee is once again acting like a child because his best friend, who is also holding down a job and taking care of her young brother, isn’t paying enough attention to him. It’s so tiresome, that when Elle finally stands up for herself, it’s an all-too-brief reprieve from the boys’ antics. More tiresome are some of the shenanigans that these Gen Z kids get into. The annoying list of friendship rules are back with an addendum a list of random summer activities essentially cooked up by Elle to make Lee happy. For reasons I cannot explain, this includes a contest to see who can drink the most frozen drinks the fastest and survive the ensuing brain freeze, a helium-induced karaoke number that somehow brings the house down, and orchestrating a choreographed flash mob, which feels like a blast from the past decade—which could be said for many of the movie’s needle-drops. The only set piece that manages to be more creative than exhausting is a go-kart race based on the video game "Mario Kart," but only if you’re alright with the fact the kids, as they do in the game, throw items to make their competitors crash. Gentlemen, learning a TikTok dance was right there. King, who normally tries her best to sell Elle’s growing pains of young love, looks a little more checked out this time. She's left behind the wide-eyed optimism of the previous chapters for an Elle who seems so tired by it all, she can do little more than cry or snap at the new woman dating her dad. Elordi’s cool hot boyfriend shtick also seems similarly tired. His character’s macho posturing is less about connecting with Elle than being too insecure with her. Courtney seems to be the only one fully committed to his character, which unfortunately, doesn’t seem to have matured much from when he first protested over his best friend dating his brother. Even perennial scene saver Molly Ringwald, as the boys’ mother Mrs. Flynn, isn’t around for most of the movie to smooth over ruffled feathers and bruised egos. It’s hard to believe the cinematography of these movies could get worse, but believe me, it does. Likely due to the pandemic or a tight schedule, a number of close-ups of Elle, Lee, and Noah clearly have green-screened backgrounds, looking about as unnatural as many things in the story. There’s one climatic showdown, set in front of the Hollywood Hills sign, that really defies any sort of reason. It’s not so much spectacle or camp, it's just silly. For this last go-around, Marcello committed to the series’ cheaply saccharine premise and only half-heartedly tried to make it look better than an old Aéropostale from the aughts, focusing his camera on mostly white young people except for Marco and Chloe against the backdrop of a coastal sun-soaked California. “The Kissing Booth 3” has about as much depth as one of those ads. After the sand has been shaken out of shoes and final smiles have been pointed at the camera, there’s not really much more to the movie. Just a boy, a girl, and the looks they trade with each other. On Netflix today. Monica Castillo Monica Castillo is a freelance writer and University of Southern California Annenberg graduate film critic fellow. Although she originally went to Boston University for biochemistry and molecular biology before landing in the sociology department, she went on to review films for The Boston Phoenix, WBUR, Dig Boston, The Boston Globe, and co-hosted the podcast “Cinema Fix.” Now playing Film Credits The Kissing Booth 3 2021 Rated NR 111 minutes Latest blog posts about 3 hours ago about 6 hours ago about 7 hours ago 1 day ago Comments