While there's an over-reliance on montage and the film still can't make us invest in Elle & Noah as a couple, it's leaps and bounds better than the book, thanks to Joey King's committed performance and the addition of Taylor Zakhar Perez.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Apr 2, 2024

If you liked the first film or you just enjoy a corny, predictable rom-com, this film is well worth a Netflix watch.

| Original Score: C- | Jun 24, 2021

There's less of the original's overt sexism, but Netflix's most-watched romcom series is as odious as ever.

| Original Score: 1/5 | May 11, 2021

While Noah and Elle's relationship feels less toxic in this film, which is slower and drags throughout its more than two-hour run, the pair still struggles to be honest with each other.

| Mar 16, 2021

To The Kissing Booth 2's credit, it's not as aggressively problematic as its predecessor.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Dec 9, 2020

Though it may be a little too long and may not have as much charm as the first, Joey King is as lovely as ever as Elle Evans.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Aug 26, 2020

The ending annoyed me. It goes beyond first-world problems for these characters...

| Aug 14, 2020

I was a hardcore Twihard and this definitely has shades of Twilight - just with more overacting and less agency - but even I have limits when it comes to such cringey, shallow material.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Aug 13, 2020

The Kissing Booth 2 is not a giant breath of fresh air, but it at least course corrects some of the issues with the previous installment. [Full Review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Aug 11, 2020

If you go in with lower expectations and understand this is just a teenage love story, you might actually find a lot to enjoy in The Kissing Booth 2.

| Aug 11, 2020

The Kissing Booth 2 is as dumb and predictable as the first movie. It's an embarrassment, completely lacking in intellect, formulaic, and centres on terrible, terrible people.

| Aug 5, 2020

The Kissing Booth 2 gives Elle more agency, but her decisions still revolve around Noah and Lee, including where she should apply to college.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Aug 4, 2020

This only ends up backfiring, forcing the major characters all to stay in one place treading water, unable to grow or gain any type of complexity, and leaving the audience asking the question: what exactly was the point?

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Aug 3, 2020

Think American Pie-meets-A Cinderella Story. The combination works because it respects the in-betweenness of adolescence -- and because the chemistry between actors is detectable, even when scenes onscreen feel improbable.

| Jul 31, 2020

The Kissing Booth 2 is better than its predecessor, but that's not saying much when the characterisation is still weak and the narrative rehashes the generic plot of a YA film.

| Original Score: 5/10 | Jul 31, 2020

So-so teen romcom sequel has cursing, alcohol, sex.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jul 29, 2020

The mistakes made in the first movie not only carry over, but they are expanded upon.

| Original Score: 2/10 | Jul 29, 2020

A third installment has already been filmed so we can expect another round of romantic hi-jinks and the not at all contrived appearance of the kissing booth.

| Original Score: 3.5/10 | Jul 28, 2020

Oh the trappings of sweet love untested by time or tide...

| Jul 28, 2020

Joey King and Jacob Elordi's Netflix high school rom com cannot really make up its mind what and why it wants to be.

| Jul 27, 2020