Review of Happy Death Day 2U (2019) by Lcamoviereviews — 18 Apr 2019

Welcome back to “Groundhog Day” the horror edition part two. The first film was a lot of fun with some good humorous moments and horror. We were left with the only question of what caused her to relive the same day over and over again.

It wasn’t something that needed to be explained but sometimes to get an explanation. So with that comes the sequel. I was looking forward to this and had high hopes for it to be as refreshing and fun as the first.

What we got was something like that but not quite as good. That’s not to say the film is disapointing because it’s not. It is still fun with plenty of funny moments that really gave me some good belly laughs.

This is not so much a horror movie anymore. This is a sci-fi film with a time travel edge. I give the filmmakers serious props with how well they matched up scenes from the first film perfectily here and made everything feel seamless beginning to end.

This time around, Carter’s roommate Ryan is given more to do. We find out he and friends have made a quantum reactor that is fact causing these time loops. THe beginning provides a bit of a shocker with Ryan being chased by another version of himself.

This leads to him activating the device and with it, Tree wakes up back in the same day as the first film but something is different. Carter is now dating Danielle, Tree’s sorority sister, and her mother is alive.

Jessica Rothe’s scenes with her mother, played by Missy Yager, are very emotional scenes. I actually felt emotion in this scene and in a movie like this, that’s not quite what you would expect but it’s a good thing.

One of the biggest disapointments though is the trailer was very misleading. It made it sound like everyone was going to be a vicitim of the killer and that is not the case. Also, the film kind of igonores one of it’s rules only until he needs to use it again at the end.

Tree needs to keep killing herself to get equations to help get her back home, but a problem in the first was her keep dying was affecting her body and it actually killing her. So, why does this not seem to be an issue here? Well, it is at the end when it finally starts affecting her but it feels like it’s only being now brought up to benefit the plot.

Also, I feel like some plot holes exists that the ending should have addressed, especially with Ryan number two. Now don’t let my complaints fool you, this is still a fun sequel. It does a lot of things good too with some interesting plot twists with the alternate timeline and more characters that are great additions to the film.

The first film is better, no question about it, but this is a worthy sequel that continues plot lines with some twists and intruging angle towards a third installment.