The Kissing Booth 2

            THE KISSING BOOTH 2 The Kissing Booth franchise, unlike other similarly flimsy high school rom-coms, refuses to pretend that teenagers aren't mad, libidinous beasts 80% of the time. Instead of neutering his adolescent love birds — a fate reserved for the simpering leads of Netflix's Tall Girl, Sierra Burgess Is a Loser and the To All the Boys I Loved Before series — The Kissing Booth's director Vince Marcello leans into the hormonal calamity of youth and all its sweaty, sticky bilge. The frothy film, which became a hit for Netflix in 2018 and spurred the platform's foray into cheaply made romantic teen comedies, brazenly features an unremarkable teen girl who — gasp! — actually has uncomplicated sex for the first time mid-film and then continues to have uncomplicated sex for the rest of the story. That's not to say that the comedy and its 2020 successor, The Kissing Booth 2, aren't dithering trifles. They are. And that's fine. But it's pra...