The Kissing Booth…3.

5 stars

Cheesy. Elementary. Classic middle-school romance. These terms describe the new

Netflix Original, The Kissing Booth. After hearing people crying over it in the hallway, I decided

it was time to see what all the hype was about. Nineteen days after its release, when finals

FINALly ended, it was decided that I would watch The Kissing Booth.

The intro was mediocre, giving the necessary background information and cataloguing

the characters. The character selection was amazing and though the plot sucked, was

stereotypical, corny and cheesy, I can’t help but wish I had a Lee and Flynn in my life as well.

The first shot of Joey King dancing at the arcade gave me a giant flashback to her Beezus

and Ramona days. I can’t help but picture her as an annoying younger sister throughout this

entire movie. Given, that is part of her character, but the cheesiness gets in the way of the story

trying to be told. Other than my first grade flashback, the actors did a pretty good job for a TV

movie, and it exceeded my expectations though they were pretty low to begin with.

There is no other way to put it other than…this movie kept me on my feet. The story

went smoothly, but the tension between the three always radiated and sparked my emotions to go

all over the place. I can see why my friends would talk about The Kissing Booth in a polite

conversation but not crying over the chick-flick in the hallway.

There was too much stripping at the wrong time, and it confused the heck out of me. Less

stripping equals more clarification. Dante Alighieri used swooning as a transitional method in his

Divine Comedy, and I feel like a party scene or stripping was probably used as their transitional

method.

Anyways, other than the fact that Elle always looked like she was crying, or Elle was

crying, or Lee and Noah were fighting, The Kissing Booth was better than a Hallmark movie, but
The Kissing Booth…3.5 stars

not good enough to be classified with the OG Disney Channel films. I gave this movie three and

a half stars because there is an obvious effort put in and the simple mind would swoon over it,

but any film that ends with the line “it was all because of a kissing booth” is not deserving of

even four stars.

Thank you, and enjoy my opinion, and chill out before you overreact. It is just a movie

review.