To All the Boys I Loved Before Movie Franchise
To All the Boys I Loved Before, 2018
Based on Jenny Han’s best-selling novel, To All the Boys I Loved Before movie follows Lara Jean (Lana Condor), a dreamy high school junior, who writes letters to boys she feels an intense passion for before locking the letters away in her closet. But one day Lara Jean discovers that somehow her secret box of letters has been mailed, causing her crushes from her past, including her sister’s ex-boyfriend, to confront her about the letters. And that results in a fake dating Peter Kavinsky (Noah Centineo), who makes Lara Jean discover that something good may come out of these letters after all.
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To All the Boys I Loved Before is a 2018 American rom-com film directed by Susan Johnson with a screenplay by Sofia Alvarez based on the 2014 young adult romance novel of the same title written by Jenny Han. The movie stars Lana Condor as Lara Jean, whose secret love letters are exposed and wreak havoc on her love life, resulting in a fake relationship with "one of the recipients" Peter Kavinsky, played by Noah Centineo.
Interesting fact: Jenny Han, the writer of the books, mentioned in an interview that loads of studios were interested in adapting the book into a feature film, with only one condition: change the race heritage of Lara Jean to Caucasian. Han, determined to keep Lara Jean's heritage as half Korean, half American, said only one studio agreed with her choice and cast an Asian actress as Lara Jean. Lana Condor, who is an adoptee in real life, was the result. However, Jenny Han did not insist any of the boys be cast as Asian. As a result, the cast of boys Lara loved consists of only four Whites, one Black, and none of the boys Lara loved are Asian.
This was HUGE, I must say. Being Korean myself, I was immensely proud of Jenny Han and her insistence on Asian representation.
Noah Centineo (May 9, 1996) is an American actor best known for his roles in the final three seasons of the television series The Fosters and the Disney Channel film How to Build a Better Boy.
Lana Condor (May 11, 1997) is an American-Vietnamese actress and dancer. She is best known for her roles as Jubilee in X-Men: Apocalypse, Koyomi K. in the science fiction film Alita: Battle Angel, and Saya Kuroki in the television series Deadly Class.
The movie was released by Netflix on August 17, 2018. It isn’t just a paint-by-numbers adaptation. It’s a stylish pastel-tinted confection of a movie, one that knows every single one of the romantic tropes it’s working with backwards and forwards, and loves them with all its pure and wholesome heart. The movie received lots of favourable reviews both from critics and the fanbase, which also includes me (although my school years are so far behind; sigh). I watched it on a Friday night with my hubby, who told me that I had fallen asleep with a huge smile on my face :)
There are very good and funny reviews to give you a perspective:
Honestly, the movie is really good. And although it mostly plays by the teen rom-com rules, a number of relatable characters and a thoroughly charming cast more than make up for a lack of surprises.
MTV Movie Award for Best Kiss, MTV Movie Award for Best Breakthrough Performance (Noah Centineo), and Kids' Choice Award for Favorite Movie Actor (Noah Centineo) were secured.
Here is a really pretty fan-made MV, full of spoilers (a brief summary of the entire movie):
To All the Boys I Loved Before P.S. I Still Love You, 2020
Based on Jenny Han’s best-selling novel, To All the Boys I Loved Before 2 movie continues to follow Lara Jean (Lana Condor), a dreamy high school junior, who wrote letters to boys she one time felt an intense passion for before locking the letters away in her closet. But after the letters were out, Lara Jean ended up with Peter Kavinsky (Noah Centineo) in a pretend relationship. And this time around, the two have just taken their relationship from ‘pretend’ to ‘officially official’ when another recipient of one of her old love letters enters the picture. And the drama begins.
To All the Boys: P.S. I Still Love You is a 2020 American teen romantic comedy film directed by Michael Fimognari and starring Lana Condor, Noah Centineo, Janel Parrish, Anna Cathcart, Trezzo Mahoro, Madeleine Arthur, Emilija Baranac, Kelcey Mawema, Jordan Fisher, Ross Butler, Julie Tao, Sarayu Blue, John Corbett, Holland Taylor, and Maddie Ziegler.
The film is a sequel to To All the Boys I've Loved Before (2018) and was released on February 12, 2020, exclusively on Netflix.
Honestly, the movie was not as good as the very first one but still highly enjoyable. A very sweet teen rom-com with already familiar lovable characters and an addition of a couple of new charming ones. Obviously, there were no surprises whatsoever. Throughout the course of the film, Lara Jean’s faltering confidence in herself along with a lack of prior experience has a negative effect on her perception of her first-ever relationship, leading to the dramatic break up with PK. I was kind of disappointed in Peter and felt like LJ deserved better. But at the same time, the latter seemed overly naive, and I got slightly annoyed.
There are very good and funny reviews to give you a perspective:
The cinematography was just beautiful (but bloopers were present and funny). Also, I absolutely loved the soundtrack list. It was perfect!
Here is a really pretty fan-made MV:
To All the Boys I Loved Before: Always and Forever, 2021
Based on Jenny Han’s best-selling novel, To All the Boys I Loved Before 3 movie continues to follow Lara Jean (Lara Condor) who returns from a family trip to Korea and considers her college plans—with and without Peter (Noah Centineo)...
To All the Boys: Always and Forever is a 2021 American teen romantic comedy film directed by Michael Fimognari and starring Lana Condor, Noah Centineo, Janel Parrish, Anna Cathcart, Trezzo Mahoro, Madeleine Arthur, Emilija Baranac, Kelcey Mawema, Jordan Fisher, Ross Butler, Julie Tao, Sarayu Blue, John Corbett, Holland Taylor, and Maddie Ziegler.
The film is a sequel to To All the Boys: P.S. I Still Love You (2020) and was released on February 12, 2021, exclusively on Netflix.
Unfortunately, the movie was my least favourite one in the entire franchise. I mean, it was not necessarily bad, but there was nothing special about it. A very cheezy rom-com with already familiar characters who found themselves in some sort of a transition period in their lives. Since I’ve already read all the books, I thought there would be no surprises whatsoever but I was wrong. Certain events happened (I’m not going to say what these were) and I was not a fan of them, to be completely honest, because I felt like they were inconsistent with the story’s and characters’ development. Also, the conflict resolution was… meh.
There are very good and funny reviews to give you a perspective:
The cinematography, however, was consistently beautiful. Also, I’m proud to say that I’ve been to absolutely every single place that was featured in the movie, both in Seoul and New York!
At last, let’s appreciate the K-Pop rep in the series, which will stay dear to my heart. Always and forever: