Mila Balella

"To All the Boys: P.S I Still Love You" is a sad attempt at recreating the original film, and is a failure in its ability to "pull at the heart strings". The beginning of the film leaves us to assume that it picks up right where the previous film left off, meaning that Laura Jean and Peter would have just recently started their "official" relationship. However, the film attempts to make us feel sympathy for the couple as though they have been together for awhile, but this is just not the case. Next, the new "love interest", John Ambrose, is a textbook intrusive personality and interacts with Laura Jean with the mindset of "I deserve her" or "She's supposed to be with me", meaning he comes off as very entitled and disingenuous. The viewer develops no real connection with any of the characters and therefore feels no sympathy for them. Finally, the worst part of the entire film is the fact that we are supposed to feel sympathy for Laura Jean during the entire film, when she is the one who created all of these problems. She is the one who has jealousy problems about Peter and Gen and constantly refuses to let Peter explain himself during misunderstandings and instead assumes that Peter is in the wrong. She is the one who decides to subtly flirt with John Ambrose while they volunteer together, but she decides to wait several weeks before even telling Peter they are spending so much time together. She also decides to withhold form telling John Ambrose that she is in a relationship with Peter until the last second. Finally, she decides to lead John Ambrose on and dances, flirts, and kisses him towards the end of the film. She shows no sympathy for John Ambrose after leading him on, and she runs away the second after they kiss leaving the viewers no reaction from either of them. Then she acts as though somehow everything that has happened is someone else's fault when she has created all of these problems. In conclusion, this film is a collection of random issues and dilemmas with no relation to each other which are obviously manufactured by the so called "protagonist" in an attempt to provoke sorry and sympathy from the viewer.