WHY? WHY? I was literally shouting after I finished watching the third sequel of the Kissing Booth series which premiered today at 12 PM IST on Netflix. But anyways I calmed down after a while and thought that what can I do, it’s just a movie after all.
I will not say that I really loved the movie like the previous two sequels but I really liked the character growth of the main characters and how they figured out their priorities and that is what I am going to bring forward in this article today.
The movie started off well with the core four spending their last summer in Flynn’s summerhouse with the harsh fact that the house is going to be sold in a few days. All of them vow to make their last summer memorable but does anything in a teenager’s life go as expected? No! Thus, then we see the up’s and downs of their lives.
I will first start with Elle, according to me she was extremely confused in this sequel. Like man come on 1 month left and you haven’t chosen which college you will finally go to? Please, that’s so unrealistic. She’s got accepted to both Harvard and UC Berkeley, still, she can’t make a choice. For a minute I was like come on Elle, you’ve got to be smarter than this, just like figure out your priorities, girl. I do understand her dilemma, but it is her life, and no one should decide anything for her and in a pressure of pleasing the people around her she should not end up making a choice which she will regret later.
In the second sequel, we did not see much development in Chole’s character. But I was relieved to see that she also had her own share of problems and needed someone by her side. Otherwise, in the second film and a great chunk in the third film instead of a girl in her early twenties she was more like Elle and Noah’s therapist who was guiding them with their relationship. For some time, I really forgot that Chole was Noah’s friend and not a thirty-year-old adult, no offence to people who are her fans!>.
As for the boys, Lee and Noah both at times were unreasonable. They did not probably understand that their anticipation and excitement confused Elle more. However, they were not wrong as both of them wanted Elle around them. But after all, Elle has to figure out her own priorities.
As for the good parts, I really liked the activities on the bucket list. Too much fun it was and while seeing Elle and Lee doing them, I could not help but imagine myself in Elle’s place. The one activity that I really liked was the sundae activity where both Elle and Lee dropped large bowls of sundae on Noah. It looked like they had a lot of fun. Marco, the new student who was introduced in the second sequel was extra annoying in this sequel. It seemed his sole purpose staying back in Los Angeles was to spoil the last summer of Noah and Elle. But I really appreciated the fact Noah did not retaliate the way we perceived him to, and that I was a great development in Noah’s character.
Lee and Elle’s friendship were subjected to many tests in the other two sequels, but I think the one in this film was the most heart-breaking. I was also extremely disappointed in Lee when he accused Elle of giving more importance to Noah, like a random person saying that would not matter but when your best friend says such a thing it hurts a lot indeed.
However, like the other sequel, Elle and Lee do patch up eventually and it felt good to see that Elle finally stopped putting others before herself and explained to Lee that she needed to follow her own dreams.
Then comes the most heart-breaking moment when Noah and Elle breakup, and I said earlier that I shouted “why and why” as I wanted them to last! , but practically they made the correct decision. Given the choice between love and career, one should always choose a career as I always say!
This movie was a bittersweet one, it put light on the fact that in the end, we must make tough choices. I will definitely not elaborate anymore cause I think I was given a lot of spoilers.
But yes, I would want one thing that Elle got and that is to get accepted to both Stanford and Harvard University.
