Review of Happy Death Day 2U (2019) by Moviemitch96 — 17 Feb 2019

I thought the first film had some fun moments, but mostly just further exhausted the 'Groundhog Day'/time loop premise, and I was pretty surprised to learn that it was getting a sequel so soon, what with the first only coming out a year or so ago.

Nevertheless, this one surprised me in some ways. For one, it wasn't really a slasher like the first one was, rather it introduced sci-fi and multiverse elements to it, which I thought felt somewhat interesting, but also ridiculous at times.

Some of the acting and dialogue from certain characters was also cringeworthy. However, I will say that the acting from lead actress Jessica Rothe was once again pretty solid, and there were a surprising amount of deep, meaningful, and emotional scenes with her character that helped keep the film investing at times.

But overall, despite the handful of meaningful and decent moments, rather than building upon what the first film offered, it seemed to just jumble a bunch of genres together horror/slasher, sci-fi, comedy, etc.

) with no clear aim if you ask me.