The Kissing Booth 2

The Kissing Booth 2 is a 2020 American teen romantic comedy film directed by Vince Marcello, from a screenplay by Marcello and Jay Arnold. The film is a direct sequel to the 2018 film The Kissing Booth, and is the second installment in the Kissing Booth trilogy. Based on The Kissing Booth books by Beth Reekles, the film stars Joey King, Joel Courtney and Jacob Elordi.

Plot
After a romantic summer together, Noah and Elle must adjust to a long-distance relationship as he leaves for Harvard and she begins her senior year of high school.

Why It Sucks

 * 1) It doesn't even do anything to improve the main problems of the first film. Cheap cinematography, boring scenes, bad acting, camera shots that are almost low resolution, awfully predictable writing, you get the idea.
 * 2) Its camera shots and choice of background music made it look like a generic original movie you'd find on Disney Channel.
 * 3) False advertising: The Kissing Booth only appeared in one or two scenes, even that being the title of the entire franchise.
 * 4) * It doesn't really help that most of the plot, as well as the entire trilogy, centers around the list of rules Elle made for Lee when they were children.
 * 5) It tries to paint that these actions of two-timing, manipulation, lying, insecurity and selfishness as such in relationships as good, but it really comes across as toxic and unhealthy.
 * 6) The characters are still just as insufferable:
 * 7) * Elle is the same unlikable and hypocritical protagonist that berates Noah for being with Chloe, when she kissed Marco in public, which is much worse.
 * 8) * Noah is still a manipulative douche who still gets into fights when someone talks to Elle.
 * 9) * Lee has gotten more clingy towards Elle, that he ruined his relationship with Rachel, twice.
 * 10) The part where Elle started getting aroused by Marco exercising in a video felt pretty awkward and concerning.
 * 11) * The student who introduced Marco to Elle wasn't set-up from the beginning nor was ever seen again later in the film.
 * 12) Several plot holes that aren't even answered:
 * 13) * Elle should've known better that even if she wins the dance competition, $50 grand won't be enough to cover a year's worth of tuition in Harvard. Let alone, share half the prize money to her dance partner.
 * 14) * Why hasn't Elle talked to Noah about Chloe making her feel uncomfortable in front of her?
 * 15) * Heck, why didn't either Noah or Lee call out Elle for kissing Marco in public?
 * 16) Awfully slow, inconsistent pacing and structure, and unnecessary scenes that dragged out for way too long, and almost nothing happened in the film.
 * 17) Unrealistic depictions of Harvard, or any university in general:
 * 18) * What college would even have a bar?
 * 19) * Using outdated memes to attract future students.
 * 20) Elle decides to leave Marco (even after he treats her better than Noah did) for Noah, and went with the "running to the airport just to say goodbye to him" cliche that has been done several times. So, all the moments she spent with Marco has been nothing more than a waste of time, and was stated the she hasn't learned anything throughout the entire runtime.
 * 21) Unrealistic moments that  Elle found two letters that she was accepted from both Harvard and Berkeley very easily just by simply writing an essay, despite that being difficult to enter one of the most prestigious universities in the world.

The Only Redeeming Quality

 * 1) Marco and Rachel are the only tolerable characters in the movie.

Reception
On review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes, the film holds an approval rating of 27% based on 41 reviews, with an average rating of 4.3/10. The website's critics consensus reads: "Joey King makes The Kissing Booth 2 better than it could have been, but this slapdash sequel will leave viewers puckering up for all the wrong reasons."

Trailer
 https://youtu.be/fjVonI2oVeM

Reviews
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