The frothy film, which became a hit for Netflix in 2018 and spurred the platform’s foray into cheaply made romantic teen comedies, brazenly features an unremarkable teen girl who - gasp! - actually has uncomplicated sex for the first time mid-film and then continues to have uncomplicated sex for the rest of the story.Īdapted from Beth Reekles’ Y.A. ![]() ![]() ![]() Instead of neutering his adolescent love birds - a fate reserved for the simpering leads of Netflix’s Tall Girl, Sierra Burgess Is a Loser and the To All the Boys I Loved Before series - The Kissing Booth‘s director Vince Marcello leans into the hormonal calamity of youth and all its sweaty, sticky bilge. The Kissing Boothfranchise, unlike other similarly flimsy high school rom-coms, refuses to pretend that teenagers aren’t mad, libidinous beasts 80% of the time.
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