The Kissing Booth 3

"These movies have left their mark on me. I can't even hear the words "kissing" and "Booth" without having the mental image of these three incredibly punchable faces."

- Cynical Reviews

The Kissing Booth 3 is a 2021 American teen romantic comedy film directed by Vince Marcello, from a screenplay by Marcello and Jay Arnold. It is the third and final installment in The Kissing Booth trilogy based on Beth Reekles' novel of the same name, following The Kissing Booth and The Kissing Booth 2. It stars Joey King, Joel Courtney, Jacob Elordi, Taylor Zakhar Perez, Maisie Richardson-Sellers, Meganne Young and Molly Ringwald. The film was released on Netflix on August 11, 2021. Much like its predecessors, the film received negative reviews.

Plot
Determined to make the most of her final summer before college, Elle plans the ultimate bucket list as she navigates what comes next with Noah and Lee.

Why It Sucks

 * 1) Once again, it doesn't improve anything from the last two films. Awful acting, bad dialogue, unlikable characters, pointless scenes, and crap writing.
 * 2) * It also gives the background characters more dialogue and screentime beings close to the main cast when none of them had the tiniest bit of interaction.
 * 3) * Awful pacing.
 * 4) * Slow development.
 * 5) * The acting became much worse than the last two, especially from Joey King. While it is true that all she's best at is crying and throwing a fit in this franchise, but it feels forced this time around.
 * 6) The actual Kissing Booth appears at the epilogue during the time skip. Making it pretty obvious that the franchise itself got away with false advertising from the first film and shouldn't be titled The Kissing Booth in the first place.
 * 7) Majority of the film's runtime is just the actors' spending most of their time in beaches.
 * 8) Stupid, pointless or illogical moments that either don't make the story progress further, or just unrealistic:
 * 9) * Elle and Lee doing a lot of things in their bucket list before going to college when she should've started saving money from the beginning.
 * 10) * The entire cast going in a go-kart race dressing up as characters from Super Mario.
 * 11) * A musical number of everyone dancing.
 * 12) * Noah staying at the Hollywood sign when you're not allowed to do anymore.
 * 13) * Elle's soon-to-be married mother plans to keep the old house for nostalgia, which goes into saying that nobody would be around to use it, and hasn't talked to her husband about it.
 * 14) * Rachel breaking up with Lee for not wanting to be a involved of his, Elle's and Noah's drama, when she should've done so after being treated like dirt by both Lee and Elle.
 * 15) The prize money that Elle and Marco won from the dance competition from the last film has been retconned and was never discussed again. When that should have been the main plot point of Elle saving up for either Harvard and Berklee.
 * Oh, and speaking with the main plot, the main three want to spend the rest of the summer by staying in the beach house that was planned to be sold. Normally, this isn't a bad thing, spending your vacation to use the beach house one last time before being sold, but since it was never referenced before, it's hard enough to feel or say something for the house.
 * 1) And again from the former installment, it tries to convey that these actions of two-timing, manipulation, lying, insecurity, obsession, and selfishness as such in relationships as good, but it really comes across as toxic and unhealthy.
 * 2) The characters haven't been receiving any development over the last 3 movies:
 * 3) * Elle is still an entitled, ungrateful, and selfish brat that still complains about not having a good life, despite it being fine:
 * 4) ** Also try to think that she hasn't apologized to Noah for kissing Marco in public.
 * 5) ** Her character arc keeps going in circles, whether she wants to go back to either Noah or Marco.
 * 6) ** Won't accept her step-mom and called her annoying, and accused her dad for being selfish when he was just doing what he can to make his children happy.
 * 7) ** Even after she finally decided to attend USC to study video game design when it was never shown to be her passion other than liking Super Mario, or playing Ori.
 * 8) ** Her hair in the 6-year time skip looked awful.
 * 9) * Lee is still a clingy person who doesn't want his childhood best friend Elle to leave him.
 * 10) **He wants Elle to study at Berklee instead of Harvard, when it's not even his decision to go.
 * 11) * Noah, while he does get some development, is still letting his jealousy get the better of him.
 * 12) * Marco is out of character in here too. As he would go often antagonizing Noah throughout the entire film.
 * 13) As unlikable as Noah is, the film tries to paint him as the supposed main villain who's in the wrong in the movie, when clearly he hasn't done anything to deserve any harsh treatment.
 * 14) Elle saying goodbye to one of her classmates and slapping one of their classmate's ass as a joke is an attempt to make the sexual assault from the first film a nostalgic moment. It wasn't even funny nor good the first time, and it wasn't in here either.
 * 15) Not to mention, character arcs remain meaningless in the epilogue:
 * 16) * Elle maturing and moving on from Noah only for her to go back with him in the end.
 * 17) * Rachel going back and being engaged with Lee after she broke up with him years ago.
 * 18) The awful green screen in the ending. And  wasn't filmed at a real set.
 * 19) While it is true that the main cast have matured already during the last 6 years, but it was rather implied and not shown on screen. Not giving enough to prove both Elle and Noah are well-suited for each other.
 * 20) The final film undid a lot of development of the characters throughout the film, let alone having them around in circles for the past 2 films made this trilogy pointless than it already is.

Redeeming Qualities

 * 1) Elle's dad is the only character with common sense and is likable or tolerable. Calling out Elle's ungratefulness and admitted being disappointed in her was awesome and satisfying.
 * 2) * Surprisingly enough, Noah does get some development and is the least unlikable compared to his brother and Elle. Even though it was too late now for his character to grow, he does try to be reasonable with Elle, controlling his emotions, and not to get into a fistfight with Marco.
 * 3) ** While not much, him calling out Elle for kissing Marco is one of the smartest things he's said and done in this franchise.
 * 4) At least the Super Mario costumes look well done.

Reception
On review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes, the film holds an approval rating of 21% based on 19 reviews, with an average rating of 3.4/10. Metacritic, which uses a weighted average, assigned the film a score of 36 out of 100 based on 8 critics, indicating "generally unfavorable reviews".

Trailer
 https://youtu.be/5fKn0Dhj64w

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