The movie the Kissing Booth premiered on Netflix on May 11th, 2018. Elle Evans (Joey King), a pretty, late-bloomer who's never-been-kissed, decides to run a kissing booth as a fundraiser at her high school's Spring Carnival. She unexpectedly finds herself locking lips with her secret crush- the ultimate bad boy, Noah Flynn (Jacob Elordi). There is one problem however, this bad boy is her best friend, Lee's (Joel Courtney) older brother. The two best friends have a friendship pact and rule #9 specifically states that it is absolutely off limits to fall for siblings. Elle's life is turned upside down when she realizes that she must ultimately make a choice: follow the rules she has with her lifelong best friend or follow her heart. I read online somewhere when this movie first came out that the film combines classic tropes of the genre and that it is like a a low-budget mishmash of “Pretty in Pink,” “Never Been Kissed,” and “10 Things I Hate About You". Personally, after watching this film I thought it was alright and I probably wouldn't watch it again. It is just like every other movie out their in the Romantic Comedy genre. It was pretty predictable and you could tell how each scenario was going to play out. In the film there were many conventions all other rom-coms follow. Some of them were the conventions of the bad boy, the forbidden love, the single parent, the best friend, everyone gets what they want, the typical prom scenario, the happy ending etc;. *SPOILER ALERT COMING* However, there definitely was a twist to the genre convention of the couple always gets a happy ending. When Elle picked Lee over Noah it definitely broke the standard cliche that the girl always gets the guy. Until 10 minutes went by, and she cried to Lee about how she loves Noah and then Lee immediately forgave her and then Elle got to have Noah. It was because of their rules again. Rule #18, Always be proud of your best friends successes. Overall I would rate this movie about a 4/10. It is a good movie to watch if you are bored and you have nothing else to watch but it isnt something I would watch again. If I was going to recommend this movie to someone these are other movies that I think parallel The Kissing Booth, A Cinderella Story, She's the Man and Mean Girls. For those of you that wanna watch movies that have Noah, Jacob Elordi, in them here is a link to his IMDb page.
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