The Kissing Booth 2

If you parent a female teenager - beware. The girls are portrayed as dumb, pitted as enemies and it's only the 2 girlfriends who appear with intelligence. The 2 lead males emotionally ghost the female lead and the advice from their mother to the female lead is: she needs to listen to them. The characters as individuals are actually quite likeable, but the script allows for pretty archaic / misogynistic messaging.

The movie is better than the first- which basically portrayed the lead female falling in love with an emotionally unhinged man, with anger issues. The old 'she'll fix him / he'll be different for her' plot line. The movies show strong family units, yet no parenting or guidance is given to the young men to show them how to respect women, and no one is allowed teaching her what she deserves / has a right to respect. For 2020, these movies are already outdated.

The first Kissing Booth was enjoyable to watch and had a clear plot even if it was cheesy. I feel that the second film cannot quite for this description. The plot of the film is very weak and the writing could have been better. Some voiceover was just reiterating points we already got from the visual aspects and already developed concepts. When it comes to the characters you don't see any development in them at all. Other than that It was nice to see a gay couple in the film, however there was no real backstory or real story line to the characters. They felt like a quick add in to the film to make Netflix more inclusive. The acting was often sub par at best and quite a few of outdoor shots especially could have been much better in exposure and more. I also found the soundtrack to be lacking and some covers were not pleasing! I was expecting the film to not be amazing but I was disappointed. The film feels like people liked the first one so they just threw out a sequel.

This may be shocking for you, but I actually found the first movie of this franchise quite enjoyable. However, in the sequel, The Kissing Booth loses all of its quirky charms, which replaced by factors that makes a typical Netflix coming of age romance movie, cliche and predictable.

I went in blind when watching this, and was pleasantly surprised. I liked this one more than the first one because it is more mature than and deals with challenges of a coming of age story would represent. I know it's based off of book two by Beth Reekles, but I haven't read either one.

It was decent paced movie despite adding new characters and situations to the tally, all the while still maintaining the spirit of the first one. The way this one concludes, the rest of the storyline will be picked up in the next installment.

I say give it a shot.

Sorry but I cannot get emotional about a bunch of perfect people and their problems.

Good soundtrack!

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