'To All the Boys I've Loved Before' Review

Like always, this will be rant-like and full of my own opinions of the movie and will more than likely have spoilers scattered around in some places. If you've already seen the movie, great, you can take what you will from this. I just have to say that this movie was not doing it for me.

What you learn within the first ten minutes of the movie is that it's clearly all about this girl, Lara Jean. Lara Jean is narrating this story since it does revolve around her, and we know she's the middle child, she has two sister's and her mother died a few years back. In the beginning she's confessing that she was in love with her best friend of many years who is dating her older sister Margot, who's going off to college but she sadly breaks up with him before leaving after he's booked surprise plane tickets and stuff for himself to see her abroad while she's in college. That really hurt my heart to be honest. Lara Jean goes on to talk about all five of her letters addressed to the five guys she's had strong feelings for, every one filled to the brim with extreme emotion, alright.

Before I get on with this, I'm not even the slightest fan of Peter. Peter is not some super attractive guy who melts my heart and I certainly don't think he's a good guy. But before anyone reads this and comes at me sideways about "Oh the book is so different, read the book, the book, the book, the book." This is about the Netflix movie. It is just the movie I do not care about the book nor do the people who talk about how good or bad the movie is based on what they saw.

Now, Lara Jean is all mopey you know because Josh (her sister's now ex-boyfriend and her best friend), is all sad as well and she wants to see him happy you know and wants to still be best friends. Yada Yada Yada. Lara's younger sister Kitty knows about the special little hat box that Lara Jean keeps the letters in which were all addressed and she sent them out to all the guys. When this part happened I was just dumbfounded. If that had been my sister I would murder her.

Fast-forward to Lara Jean at school. Peter and Josh are making their way towards her with letters in hand ready to talk about what they read. Peter wants to fake date Lara Jean to make his ex girlfriend Gen jealous and want him back. Lara Jean is talking to Peter on the track when she sees Josh heading her way and decides to deter him by kissing Peter and then runs away.

Fast-forward a bit. Peter and Lara Jean are fake dating. Peter takes Lara Jean to this party to keep up appearances, and when Peter goes to the bathroom Gen comes in right after him and takes Lara Jean's favorite scrunchie off of his wrist and this boy doesn't even try to stop her or get it back for that matter. So y'all are trying to tell me that's your "man crush Monday," huh? He didn't even try. Not only that, but the girl kept the scrunchie for the WHOLE MOVIE. The entire movie, dude. Not to mention, he still talked on the phone every single day pretty much with Gen.

I'm not saying that Peter didn't develop real feelings for Lara Jean throughout their little fake fiasco and not that she didn't reciprocate those feelings, but it was a real toxic vibe going on. He was catching feelings for Lara Jean all the while keeping in contact with Gen and stringing Lara Jean right along behind him. Anyway, I also don't know exactly what went down at the lodge on the Ski Trip but why in the world would the boy spend the night in Gen's room? Why even go into her room in the first place? You are really trying to tell me that this guy is some heartthrob and this movie set you over the edge in love with him?

I'm calling your therapists.

Towards the end it does get a little more annoying but sad nonetheless. Peter and Lara Jean have essentially broken up and Peter comes to her house to confront her about everything that's happened and to confess his undying love for her or whatever I don't know. Josh intercepts the whole meeting and a big verbal fight and some pushes break out. Peter and Lara Jean then discover that they actually really like each other and it ends with them dating for real and they lived happily ever after.

I don't know if it's because I'm older and I feel I can definitely no longer relate to the hip teens anymore, but movies like this and that whole go around are exhausting and toxic to me. The whole plot is so overused in teen movies as well. It always goes something like the two main characters fake date, or one is basically cat fishing the other but one knows that they've made a mistake by texting them and then that character gets help from the person they're actually trying to contact and they let the situation go way too far beyond the point of telling the truth and yes, I am referencing Sierra Burgess is a Loser which is also on Netflix right now and I did watch it. Also the guy that plays Peter in this movie also plays the main guy in that as well but lets not talk about it.

If you like the movie then you like it, that's your opinion. But Twitter girls born after 2002 are driving me insane with this "Peter Kavinsky" talk. Guys, he is not the one.