

The Kissing Booth franchise is offering up its third rom-com iteration this fall and its plot of angsty teenage fever is sweltering. Netflix‘s YA film, an adaptation of Beth Reekles’ eponymous novels and directed by Vince Marcello, thrusts us into Elle’s (played by Joey King) crossroads of entangling her identity from perception. From the looks of the latest trailer, we’ll be by her side again in the heat of summer’s thrill as she bumbles at another puzzling fork with hilarity.
As the last film in the trilogy, Elle and her crew are fittingly reveling in their last summer at the beach house ahead of their tearfully departures for college. Pool parties packed to the brim and ecstatically completing her beach bucket list with her best friend Lee (Joey Courtney) feels like Elle’s choice of leisure to bask in the euphoria, but a sobering decision lies before her. Like every high school graduate, selecting a post-secondary institution involves poring over the campus’ academics, dorms, and of course its party nightlife. For our tottering protagonist, the nerve-wracking decision also weighs in choosing to attend her next milestone with Lee (which means fulfilling a childhood promise) or her boyfriend Noah (Jacob Elordi).
And as she’s nail-biting over attending Harvard or UC Berkeley, her bucket list escapades and Noah’s feelings of neglect, another charmer enters in to help her grapple with the pieces. What can we say? Leave it up to Elle to add in another factor into her overly-complicated worries. Although the movie isn’t a reprieve from the franchise’s never-ending teenage theatrics, as always, Elle will reckon with her lesson of listening to the strings of her heart after all (or not, since it’s been the same lesson every time).
The Kissing Booth 3 is slated to release to the streaming giant on August 11.