Toxic Relationships: the movie!
‘The Kissing Booth’ is a sexist and out of touch mess of a film disguised as a romantic young adult comedy. How this film portrays how young adults act is beyond laughable (and not in a genuine funny way) and how it portrays romantic and platonic relationships is just disturbing.
The love interest, Jacob Elordi’s character, is a controlling womanizing creep who most of the film manipulates Joey King’s character’s social life behind the scenes (preventing other young men from trying to ask her out through threat of violence.)
Joel Courtney’s character, the main protagonist’s (Joey King) best friend is overbearing and holds sacred these “best friend” rules which both characters made when they were children and should’ve grown out of.
Joey King’s character, main protagonist, is an idiot for condoning the actions and behaviors of both love interest and best friend when any sane and self respecting young woman would’ve ditched the two the moment they could.
This film did not deserve a sequel, nor its upcoming third installment, and should’ve been shot down before it even reached pre-production.