More a geeky ’80s-style high school film than horror, “Happy Death Day 2U” puzzlingly gives up on all the strengths that made its predecessor an appealing watch. Throughout this meandering mess, my mind wandered off to anything between “Weird Science” and “Back to the Future Part II...
If anything,Happy Death Day 2Uis so busy having fun that it often forgets to be a slasher — but given the original’s slight, bloodless scares (both films are PG-13 in the US), it’s hard to care. The film wears its sci-fi influences brazenly, crafting them into an entertainingly ...
Happy Death Daywasn’t the first movie to play with the concept of time loops. We’ve seen the “repeat the same day” premise done everywhere fromGroundhog DaytoEdge of Tomorrow. For such an overused setup, though, Christopher Landon’s film was refreshingly well-plotted, witty, and wicked...
You can’t really say “Happy death day” is original. You’ll immediately think of films as “Groundhog day” and recently “Before I fall” when watching this time loop/slasher movie. The same principle with one crucial difference. The person trapped in an apparently infinite time loop is...
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It's no 'Scream,' but this slasher-movie variation on 'Groundhog Day' is just clever enough to make a bloody old genre look new again.
the decision she must make. There is an elegance to this production which should not go un-lauded. That elegance exists in its juggling of absurdist comedy and emotional development. It is not an easy thing to manage both of these elements, butHAPPY DEATH DAY 2Udoes so excellently. ...
Happy Death Day 2 U: Directed by Christopher Landon. With Jessica Rothe, Israel Broussard, Phi Vu, Suraj Sharma. Tree Gelbman discovers that dying over and over was surprisingly easier than the dangers that lie ahead.
Happy Death Day has become one of Blumhouse's biggest hits, earning a sequel that was released only two years after the first movie, back in 2019. But, unfortunately, the third installment of the saga is yet to be confirmed, and it seems to be quite far away. The horror comedy ...
Happy Death Day is a horror comedy where college student Theresa "Tree" Gelbman (Jessica Rothe) is trapped in a time loop on the day of her murder, like a gorier version of Groundhog Day. Like Bill Murray's Phil Connors, Theresa begins to change and grow as a person after countless ...