Alicia I love this movie so much

Evengyny Thanks for the memories!

Hadrina The movie's neither hopeful in contrived ways, nor hopeless in different contrived ways. Somehow it manages to be wonderful

Kayden This is a dark and sometimes deeply uncomfortable drama

winterlovery Even the script was so strange, because of Noah I watched it, I love him!!

alexiapontik Seriously I really can't understand why people like this movie. It's sexist ,Noah tells Elle she "was asking for it" after she is sexually assaulted and after that she goes on a date with a guy that assaulted her... This movie it's just every cliche ever existed with Blindfolded teenagers making out with other students while their classmates cheer them on. You know the friendzone best friend the bad and hot guy but it's a good guy when it comes to Elle, sexist comments, the "mean " girls, the ugly guy, the parties and all that, half naked teenagers, the relationship montage, the whole love confession in front of the whole school and stuff...

SnoopyStyle In L.A., Elle Evans (Joey King) and Lee Flynn (Joel Courtney) have been best dancing friends since the day they were born at the same time to two best friends. Elle discovers that she has developed a crush on Lee's older hunky brother Noel (Jacob Elordi). The main problem is that Elle and Lee have set up these rules and dating the other's family is definitely one of them.I hope for nothing but good things for these adorable actors. This may not be one of those good things although it's not irredeemable. King is an adorable child actress trying to grow up on screen. Elordi is in full hunk mode. Courtney has limited character work in his role. Everybody is good. Even the mean girls are not complete ditches. This seems to be a simple cheery teen rom-com. There are a lot of referencing 80's and 90's especially the music. They're passing notes in class for heaven's sake. In the modern era, a kissing booth is impossible for a high school fundraiser. I don't think it would work for any fundraiser. This stuff hasn't been done since Revenge of the Nerds. Leaving that aside, their kiss makes no sense. He wouldn't be waiting around at the kissing booth. The plot is so simplistic that the movie refused to develop a love triangle. It threatens to try early on and quickly draws back. All of that is fine until it tries to be overly dramatic. There is no real drama to be had but the movie insists on injecting some big emotional conflicts. It could have done some smaller emotional arcs to maintain its poignancy. He's going to college and that's enough for emotional drama. As for Lee, the movie deliberately gives him a girlfriend before the reveal so that there is no chance for romance. The first half works somewhat as a light teen rom-com geared for girls. The second half struggles to make it dramatic when it doesn't need it.

mlharrington18 I could only get through half of the movie before I turned it off to spare myself. As a former teenage girl I can understand why parts of it would appeal to that demographic. But as a current adult who can identify abusive behavior and the sexualization of minors I cannot understand why the ideas shown in this movie are still being peddled to impressionable teenagers: romanticizing a guy who gets into fights, using one's underage body to get (male) attention, indulging and even rewarding manipulative behavior, agreeing to go out with someone who grabbed your butt in public without consent, caving to peer pressure when the popular girls tell you to drink... I thought we as a society were moving past all that.This movie contains every high school stereotype and cliché, but not even in an ironic or clever way, just a truly unoriginal and vapid way. All of the characters are one-dimensional and although Elle (Joey King) is cute and likable, the copious amounts of token awkwardness is too overwhelming. Her attempts to stand up for herself are admirable but half-hearted; she always ends up going back to whoever gave her crap at the first sign of an apology or "good intention."I would like to see more realness, as opposed to the "OMG" girls who are so fake it's actually sad. I wish the film had addressed the impact of Elle losing her mother more. Teenage girls don't move on like nothing's happened just because they have a best friend and some eye candy. I want to see less of a 16-year-old girl stripping in a locker room full of guys. The movie lacks any real emotional foundation that could make you overlook some of its flaws. For instance, Elle and Noah's relationship is basically only founded on physical attraction. That's it. One extra star for cinematography and scenery. Not feeling any more generous than that today.