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So, uh, what is a kissing booth?Im glad you asked!
What does all this have to do with the movie?Everything!
Like the iceberg inTitanic, the kissing booth inThe Kissing Boothradically overturns the movies status quo.
Except they cant go public with their new relationship, because it would hurt his brothers feelings!
Oh, so its a love triangle?Oddly enough, no.
Weird!Buddy, you dont know the half of it.
This movie has a ton of weird shit.
Theres a gay-romance subplot where neither of the two men ever so much as speak a line.
(Call my by your name … if we ever exchange them.)
Theres not one but two separate scenes ripped off wholesale from10 Things I Hate About You.
King also recently hit 3 million Instagram followers, which is a huge deal onthe teen internet.
(I didnt includeBrightbecause it had so much search volume it was messing up the scale of the graph.
Furthermore,a quick scan of Twitterproduces plenty of teens publicly espousing their love for this movie.
So, why do they?Well, thats the million-view question.
I have a few theories.
And even though the movies pretty bad, its bad in acomfortingway.
Spoiler alert: Our heroine loses her virginity underneath the Hollywood sign!
But if I had to pinpoint one ultimate reason, its that the guy is hot.
Its a teen movie, of course the guy is hot.True.
But the guy isreallyhot.
Jacob Elordi is an Australian model, and you’re able to, uh, tell.
The dude is built like a tree that suddenly grew muscles and veins in all the right places.
His hair flops around just so, and his smile is just the right degree off-center.
And unlike a certain pair ofcinematic co-stars, Elordi and King actually like each other.
Theyre dating, is what Im trying to say.
Everybody loves a co-stars-in-love story!
As they say, its never too late to go back to the booth.
