The Kissing Booth Is Netflix's Worst Romance Movie

The movie implies that Lee doesn't want Elle dating Noah because he's insecure, but if his IMMEDIATE reaction to seeing Elle hurt was that Noah did it... I think there's another reason why

Elle’s mother is the best character. She at least had the good sense to die in the first five minutes so she didn’t have to be in this trash fire of a movie.

The worst part is, this isn't just one bad movie It's a TRIOLOGY of bad movies

The fact this was made by a 15 year old girl and then remade by some old man was actually crazy 💀💀

Ok but to be fair. The best friend's "don't fuck my brother" rule makes a lot of sense He's a violent, angry, creepy, sociopath.

The fact that Lee was 100% convinced that his goblin monster brother fully attacked Elle is deeply concerning. With how rich the Flynn family is, they seem like the kind of people that cover up their insane children that murder women and just pay off enough cops to keep everyone out of jail.

Coming from a sexual abuse victim, it's super gross that they treat her being groped as a cutesy minor little thing. That sort of thing is very traumatic and the fact that she immediately forgave him and even almost got with him says a lot about the movie.

It's insane that a character who slams their fist on a car and screams "GET IN THE CAR ELLE" to a girl trying to walk away from a violent situation is treated as the love interest and not a violent psychopath. Man's got anger issues and is violent and it's treated as a plus.

I know everyone's already said this, but seriously SUCH a red flag that Lee immediately thinks Noah hurt Elle, and he actually does push her out of the way pretty harshly while trying to get at Lee, and yk instead of having a conversation about the relationship Noah and Lee get into an actual fight. Noah is constantly acting extremely abusive and the movie just ignores that for the most part.

the most concerning part about the kissing booth is that it was based on a wattpad novel most likely written by a 14 year old girl that believed that all these abusive and violent behaviours were something u were supposed to be attracted to/long for, and the novel got so popular in the site that it was picked up by netflix which is even sadder

My personal theory is that while the main story was happening the dad found out the moms death was a murder so he has this gritty crime plot where he tries to find the culprit

i love how lee's immediate reaction to the cut on her face was “NOAH DID YOU FUCKING DO THAT” like man KNOWS that he’s the type of person to do that

Noah slamming his hand on the hood of that car is genuinely terrifying like girl GET OUT OF THERE

It’s so gross how the movie breezes by how elle tried to go out with a guy who literally just assaulted her

I love how in almost every other movie, a man slamming his hand on the hood or roof of his car as he shouts at a woman to "GET IN THE CAR!" is universally recognized as a massive red flag. Meanwhile, this movie is like "Oooooh, he be so passionate! What a catch! <3" You can tell this story was originally written by a young teen who didn't know any better, but what's the excuse of the grown-ass adults who decided that, yes, this needs to be a movie and, no, we're not gonna make any changes to these worrying behavioral issues.

Fun fact: going near the Hollywood sign is extremely illegal , usually the closest you can ever get to it is if you're above it on the hill, you can absolutely be arrested for being infront of it, sometimes even police officers are there to guard the sign incase anyone tried to go up and vandalize lr loiter near the sign, so if this movie was realistic Elle and Noah would be arrested and the credits would play

It's extremely toxic how controlling this supposed "friendship" is and how violent Noah is yet we're supposed to treat it as endearing

Lee was so desperate about them not dating and immediately thought Noah hit her. It seems Noah is incredibly abusive and Lee knows that. This movie Is fucked

Another big issue is that, just from what I've seen here and Cinema Therapy, it's implied that Noah has likely hurt Lee in the past Like, since they were kids, Lee was adamant about keeping Elle out of a relationship with him, probably because it would be weird, and because he's proven to be extremely violent and controlling for no reason. He sees Elle injured and immediately assumes that he did it and manipulate her to lie for him Like- doesn't it feel like that may have happened when they were kids? Noah hurt Lee and convinced him to lie to their parents about it. To everyone. And now Lee has to watch him date his best friend, anxious that it's gonna go bad

I love how the fighting in this movie looks genuinely brutal but in real life if a school fight even happens in the first place it just looks like two people violently hugging each other while rolling around on the floor, maybe some biting, punching, smacking, etc but mostly hugging just angry while people watch.