Through My Window: Across the Sea

"A Través De Mi Ventana" has left opinions divided because it is considered a work that does not honor literature and is only a manuscript with no authentic literary or cultural value. But since it is something that belongs to internet culture where it has a large number of followers and defenders, the reality is that internet culture proved to be more powerful than traditional culture, as happened with the Five Nights At Freddy's movie and It is thanks to this that "A Través De Mi Ventana" managed to transcend the audiovisual medium. The film managed to demonstrate that success is currently defined solely by popularity, without giving importance to the quality that the product may have and letting the box office numbers have more relevance than the reviews. After this, Netflix decided to take advantage of this opportunity to bring us a new trilogy. Finally, "A Través Del Mar" arrived and it was expected that this sequel would adapt the second book, but Netflix preferred to invent a new story and it must be admitted that doing that was a mistake.

"A Través Del Mar" has a story that continues the relationship of Ares and Raquel while they are on vacation. One good thing that this story has is that Ares is now more mature and has this conflict about whether studying Medicine is his true future. Everything could be fine there despite having the typical romantic clichés, but the film has a serious problem that lies in the script. There are good shots, good photography and even an acceptable soundtrack, but all that would be only 50 percent of what is good in this film. The plot feels empty and lacking substance. As much as the first movie is a typical Wattpad story that certain people disapprove of, you have to admit that it is much better and has better substance with a good pace. In this sequel, on the other hand, the writing is a mess and everything that happens here feels very random with a lack of development. There are scenes that feel mixed together or are pure filler. Everything in the first hour is inconsistent until the moment comes when Raquel begins to wonder if Ares was cheating on her and at least that sparked a little interest in what happens next.

Introducing the relationships of Ares' brothers may have added something, but it turns out they are also filler. The subplots with Ares' borthers and Yoshi are not well developed and have no coordination with the main plot. The relationship between Claudia and Artemis could have been good with more development because it is clear that Artemis wanted to follow Ares' example. The thing about Apollo and his partner was only an ornament to later provide a delightful scene that in the end was not necessary. Yoshi's couple, Anna, is a character that feels like she came out of nowhere and only served as a common thread for Yoshi to fulfill a role in the final moments of the film. The good thing is that this helped the film conclude in a more decent way after so many inconsistencies. The bad thing is that it generates some pity for Yoshi because he felt like a fairly wasted character.

In conclusion, "A Través Del Mar" is one of those sequels that does not honor the original film and feels like a product that was made just to take advantage of the popularity of the Wattpad novel and its adaptation. Ariana Godoy had collaborated as a consultant on this film and that should have contributed something positive, but it was quite the opposite. You can feel the air of Godoy's work, but expressed in a very inconsistent way. Not only the people who rejected the first movie had the same opinion about this sequel, even the majority of female fans who defend the book and the first movie have also been disappointed with this movie. It is not something strange and perhaps the best thing would have been to have used the plot of the second book instead of inventing a new one. There are few people who were satisfied with this new proposal, so making this sequel without taking into account the second book was not a good idea. My final rating for this movie is a 5/10.

I remember that it had a general plot and I was excited to see the continuation of "Through my window", "Across the Sea" came out and I realized that the sea takes away good things, that's what happened with this production, it took How good the first movie was.

It didn't even meet 5% of my expectations, it was terrible for my taste, it was boring and total chaos, it went to ruin! I passed him so as not to fall asleep, was it a plot fading, did they fire the person in charge of the first one? It could have been good, but it wasn't.

In a certain part it was ridiculous, I no longer saw the emotion or feeling they conveyed like in the first one, they looked dull, without desire, it wasn't the same, period.

I do understand that this story was a watt pad story but being as it was made into a movie if should have been way better. The movie could have had a great continuation of the story but it was not. The movie was very poorly executed, all over the place and did not make sense for half of the movie. If you watch the first like I did you would be very disappointed how rushed and poorly made movie was. As well as a lot of the so called "plot" was not made understandable by really anyone in my opinion. For someone who has watch made movies similar to this and has not really likened those, this movie falls even under those movies. I would still recommend you watch it to get your own opinion but this was mine..

If you thought it couldn't get worse than the first movie, you're in for a ride. This sequel tries to justify its existence with a lot of forced conflict, but it just comes across as uninteresting and downright pointless. The dialogue is, once again, awfully written and conversations throughout almost every scene feel extremely unnatural. A lot of the scenes are just very awkward and some are even slightly creepy. The movie tries way too hard to be erotic and that's where I'm lost on the presumed demographic for this movie. It's way too childish, even for teenagers, but it's also very sexual. However it may be, it is just, objectively, very poorly executed.

Through my window - a Spanish romantic teen drama based on a book with the same title, hit Netflix like a storm last year, as another Kissing Booth wanna be. Now it tries to flare up the flame by bringing a sequel.

The story continues where it was left by Ares studying in Stockholm while Raquel stayed behind with all their friends and family. It is a big adjustment for both of them. Can their relationship survive the test?

I must say that the beautiful beaches of Costa Brava made me feel like I was too on a holiday, and the drama between the friends gave just enough entertainment to keep on watching. But do they must force these makeshift problems and hilarious intimate scenes on the viewers?

The story line doesn't feel realistic and by the end of the movie it stretches too far into trying to be serious and dramatic with a tragic ending.

I must say I liked the first movie better, because it didn't want to be anything else than it is, while the second one was just trying too hard.

Fans will be happy to know that a third part of the trilogy Through My Window: Looking at You should arrive in 2024.