History Film / TheKissingBooth3

* BrokenAesop: A plot point that is emphasized is Mr. and Mrs. Flynn deciding to sell the beach house for redevelopment. Elle, Noah, and Lee are initially opposed, but eventually relent and clean it up per their agreement in return for spending their summer there. [[spoiler:However, Mrs. Flynn chooses to pull out of the sale, literally at the last second, upon recalling the childhood pictures hung inside the beach house that Elle sent her. This not only contradicts her quite sensible reasoning to sell the house in the first place (that it's expensive to maintain, especially since no one is going to live there most of the time now that the kids are off to college), it also undermines the film's message about how growing up means that, sometimes, you have to leave your childhood attachments behind.]]

Taking place shortly after ''Film/TheKissingBooth2'', Elle (Creator/JoeyKing) is planning to spend the last summer before college alongside her best friend, Lee (Creator/JoelCourtney), her boyfriend, Noah (Jacob Elordi), and Lee's girlfriend, Rachel (Meganne Young), at the Flynn family's beach house. Elle has chosen to attend Harvard so she can be with Noah, but feels guilty of abandoning Lee. To make up with him, she invites him to do a bucket list of activities they dreamed as kids, all in the span of a single summer. She soon learns how exhaustive it can be to balance her role as a friend to Lee and a girlfriend to Noah, something that isn't helped when she reunites with Marco (Creator/TaylorZakharPerez). To top it off, she struggles to accept the fact that her father (Stephen Jennings) is dating another woman, Linda (Bianca Amato). Can Elle juggle the responsibilities and face new realities, or will she break down and lose everything she has?

Taking place shortly after ''Film/TheKissingBooth2'', Elle (Creator/JoeyKing) is planning to spend the last summer before college alongside her best friend, Lee (Creator/JoelCourtney), her boyfriend, Noah (Jacob Elordi), and Lee's girlfriend, Rachel (Meganne Young), at the Flynn family's beach house. Elle has chosen to attend Harvard so she can be with Noah, but feels guilty of abandoning Lee. To make up with him, she invites him to do a bucket list of activities they dreamed as kids, all in the span of a single summer. She soon learns how exhaustive it can be to balance her role as a friend to Lee and a girlfriend to Noah, something that isn't helped when she reunites with Marco (Taylor Zakhar Perez). To top it off, she struggles to accept the fact that her father (Stephen Jennings) is dating another woman, Linda (Bianca Amato). Can Elle juggle the responsibilities and face new realities, or will she break down and lose everything she has?

* BrokenAesop: A plot point that is emphasized is Mr. and Mrs. Flynn deciding to sell the beach house for redevelopment. Elle, Noah, and Lee are initially opposed, but eventually relent and clean it up per their agreement in return for spending their summer there. [[spoiler:However, Mrs. Flynn chooses to pull out of the sale, literally at the last second, upon recalling the childhood pictures hung inside the beach house that Elle sent her. Not only this contradicts her quite sensible reasoning to sell the house in the first place (that it's expensive to maintain, especially since no one is going to live there most of the time now that the kids are off to college), it also undermines the film's message about how growing up means that, sometimes, you have to leave your childhood attachments behind.]]
* CallingTheYoungManOut: When Elle insults her dad's new girlfriend Linda in front of everyone over a Monopoly game and says she'll never be part of their family, Elle's father confronts her about her attitude. Elle calls her father "selfish" for dating again after her mother died, prompting Mr Evans to point out ''she's'' actually being selfish and immature: although he was also devastated by Elle's mother dying he had to stay strong to look after her and her brother, that he hasn't dated anyone else for several years for his kids' sake and that Elle isn't the only one who deserves love and happiness. It doesn't help that Linda is far from being a WickedStepmother and no one else has a problem with her. Elle later [[JerkassRealization realizes]] that her dad made some good points and apologizes to Linda.

* {{Foreshadowing}}: Early on at the beach house, Rachel accidentally pulls off a glass doorknob on a wardrobe and Lee says he and Elle used to pretend it was a diamond when they were kids; he places on Rachel's hand like a ring for a laugh. [[spoiler:The ending reveals they're engaged to be married]].

* ExpositoryHairstyleChange: [[spoiler:In the future, Elle sports a PowerHair, showing her transformation from a GamerChick into a full-fledged game developer.]]

* ObliviousToLove: Elle is ''painfully'' oblivious to the extremely obvious fact Marco is still attracted to her and is hanging around with her in the hopes of changing her mind; it takes Marco punching Noah for publicly calling him on this for her to finally catch on. Noah even calls her obliviousness "embarassing".

* TurnTheOtherCheek: When Marco punches Noah in the face and all but dares him to fight him, Noah seriously considers it for several moments befire declaring "I'm not doing this" and riding off on his motorcycle.

* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: Ashton (the guy from Berkeley that Lee becomes friends with) abruptly disappears after a few scenes, taking the subplot of Elle being slightly jealous of their budding friendship with him.

* ReasonYouSuckSpeech: [spoiler: After inadvertently missing her and Lee's last chance to play on their Dance Dance Mania game, Lee accuses Elle of not caring about him and claims she's always chosen Noah over him. Elle is ''infuriated'' and launches into a speech of her own, lambasting Lee for being a SpoiledBrat who can't accept that their lives and friendship is changing and unloading on him about all the pressure she's felt to "make it up" to him for choosing Harvard over Berkeley. She ends it by saying she's done following the "friendship rules" Lee has always used to control her before storming off, leaving Lee in shocked tears]].

* DisappointedInYou: Said almost verbatim by Mr. Evans after Elle insults Linda and accuses him of being selfish for dating her.

A 2021 teen romantic {{Dramedy}} film, ''The Kissing Booth 3'' is the third installment in the ''Film/TheKissingBooth'' series, based on the [[Literature/TheKissingBooth book series of the same name]] by Beth Reekles. It was made available on Creator/{{Netflix}} on August 11, 2021. It adapts the basic plot of ''The Beach House'', a novella released between the two books, but mostly tells an original story.

* BetaCouple: Lee and Rachel have far more adjusted relationship compared to Elle and Noah. [[spoiler:This doesn't stop them from breaking up, if temporarily.]]

A 2021 teen romantic {{Dramedy}} film, ''The Kissing Booth 3'' is the third installment in the ''Film/TheKissingBooth'' series, based on the [[Literature/TheKissingBooth duology of the same name]] by Beth Reekles. It was made available on Creator/{{Netflix}} on August 11, 2021. It adapts the basic plot of ''The Beach House'', a novella released between the two books, but mostly tells an original story.

Taking place shortly after ''Film/TheKissingBooth2'', Elle (Creator/JoeyKing) is planning to spend the last summer before college alongside her best friend, Lee (Creator/JoelCourtney), her boyfriend, Noah (Jacob Elordi), and Lee's girlfriend, Rachel (Meganne Young), at the Flynn family's beach house. Elle has chosen to attend Harvard so she can be with Noah, but feels guilty of abandoning Lee. To make up with him, she invites him to do a bucket list of activities they dreamed as kids, all in the span of a single summer. She soon learns how exhaustive it can be to balance her role as a friend to Lee and a girlfriend to Noah, something that isn't helped when she reunites with Marco (Taylor Zakhar Perez). To top it off, she struggles to accept the fact that her father (Stephen Jennings) is dating another woman, Linda. Can Elle juggle the responsibilities and face new realities, or will she break down and lose everything she has?

* BeYourself: Mrs. Flynn tells Elle to stop sacrificing herself to let Noah and Lee happy, and ask herself: "What do I want?" [[spoiler:This motivates Elle to decline both Harvard and Berkeley, instead applying for the video gaming department at the University of Southern California.]]

* DerailingLoveInterests: Downplayed. Compared to the previous film, Marco is rather more aggresive in his plan to snatch Elle from Noah, even luring him into fighting publicly (he refuses to take the bait, though). After Elle rejects him outright, however, he finally takes the hint and parts ways from her amicably.
* DisappointedInYou: Stated word-for-word by [[spoiler:Mr. Evans, after Elle insults Linda at the family gathering.]]

* ExpositoryHairstyleChange: [[spoiler:In the future, Elle sports a bob cut, showing her transformation from a GamerChick into a full-fledged game developer.]]

* MaybeEverAfter: [[spoiler:Six years after their breakup, Elle reunites with Noah at their almamater. It is implied, though not stated, that they will find their way to each other back, just like Lee did with Rachel.]]
* ParentWithNewParamour: Mr. Evans is dating a woman named Linda, who immediately sets about to win the children's hearts. While Brad is easily won, Elle is skeptical and outright tells her that she considers her intrusive to the family. [[spoiler:It takes her father [[DisappointedInYou calling her out]] for her to finally warm up to her.]]

-->[[spoiler:'''Noah''']]: I do love you but...maybe sometimes just loving each other isn't enough.

-->[[spoiler:'''Elle:''' So that's it? The fact that we love each other means ''nothing''?
-->[[spoiler:'''Noah:''']] I do love you but...maybe sometimes just loving each other isn't enough.

* LongDistanceRelationship: Deconstructed. Despite the previous film's message of this being a feasible option, this film repeatedly shows that this is a very difficult way of keeping a relationship afloat, since not only you have to maintain a regular schedule to prevent things from going sour, but also sacrifice your priorities so you can placate your loved ones. [[spoiler:Noah breaks up with Elle as he knows that, beyond being able to be with him, she doesn't really want to move all the way to Boston. Meanwhile, Rachel breaks up with Lee explicitly because she doesn't want to do LDR.]]

* ArtifactTitle: Even more so than the second film, where the kissing booth at least at some significance to the story (it results in Lee and Rachel making up, Elle definitively rejecting Marco for Noah, and Ollie finally confessing his feelings for Miles). Here, the kissing booth has nothing to do with the plot and merely gets a cameo appearance.

!!All spoilers from for the previous films are unmarked

A 2021 teen romantic {{Dramedy}} film, ''The Kissing Booth 3'' is the third installment in the ''Film/TheKissingBooth'' series, based on the [[Literature/TheKissingBooth duology of the same name]] by Beth Reekles. It was made available on Creator/{{Netflix}} on August 12, 2021. It adapts the basic plot of ''The Beach House'', a novella released between the two books, but mostly tells an original story.

A 2021 teen romantic {{Dramedy}} film, ''The Kissing Booth 3'' is the third installment in the ''Film/TheKissingBooth'' series, based on the [[Literature/TheKissingBooth duology of the same name]] by Beth Reekles. It adapts the basic plot of ''The Beach House'', a novella released between the two books, but mostly tells an original story.