By Cassie Honeycutt, Features Editor
Caution: Do not read this if you have not watched the movie! There are spoilers!
The movie I had waited over a year for. The movie that I had high expectations for and was expecting nothing less. “To All the Boys: P.S. I Still Love You” was the movie that everyone had been waiting to see.
I am going to get straight to the point. When you have a boyfriend as good as Peter Kavinsky, you do not go off and kiss another boy. Even if you are going through a rough patch because you got in an argument. That is not how things work.
Something that bothered me a lot was that Lara Jean was so jealous. Lara Jean’s ex-best friend and Peter’s ex-girlfriend, Gen, was always in the back of Lara Jean’s mind causing her to always feel insecure about her relationship. I wish the writers gave the girl some confidence. She is dating one of the hottest and most popular guys in the school!
One thing that I loved that the writers did was when they tied previous scenes to the ending of the movie. For example, when Peter went to the nursing home to fix things and he ran into Lara Jean and the first thing he said was that she didn’t like driving in the snow, that moment, my heart melted.
The major issue I had with the movie was it was nothing like the book. I loved the series so much and was looking forward to how good the movie was going to be. The first movie followed the first book very closely. The second movie was missing major details that I thought tied the story together.
I am a detail person. I notice the nitty-gritty details and it bothers me if a movie director or writer doesn’t. One key scene I noticed was when Peter gave Lara Jean a necklace. Lara Jean was already wearing a necklace and when Peter went to put the new one on she was no longer wearing the original necklace. A necklace doesn’t miraculously disappear and a detail like that in a movie is important.
Also, a resolution was a big part of the movie, especially with Gen. The scene when Lara Jean invites Gen to meet at the treehouse and they all of a sudden resolve their never-ending feud is absolutely ridiculous. You don’t have a feud, then a calm conversation and then everything is somehow “over.”
Overall, I thought the movie was really sweet. There were some things that I didn’t like. I will say this, I don’t think it lived up to the expectations I had been given it. “To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before” was so detailed and it made you feel like you were in the movie. “To All the Boys: P.S. I Still Love You” didn’t feel like that.
It wasn’t an awful movie, but there were expectations that the movie didn’t meet and it could have been better.
Junior Cassie Honeycutt can be reached at 21honeycuttca35@daretolearn.org.
