Happy Day of Death 2U Review

By Meg Downey

Happy Death Day 2U by screenwriter / director Christopher Landon seems to savor all his little incongruities. It's the nonsense of the overpriced slapstick that manages to land about 80% of the time, but when the third act unfolds, it begins to feel stuck in a time loop, at the same time. image of his group of courageous university protagonists. Nevertheless, we welcome it for pbading and tramp, but it manages to be a kind-bender fun and fun, ideal for solid laughs and clever tricks.

Repeating exactly where the original was, Happy Death Day (2017), 2U focuses again on Tree Gelbman (Jessica Rothe), as she is forced to relive a day of her life again and again, ending each time with his brutal death. Only this time, we know why all this is happening.

Several supporting characters here seem to be lost completely in a different movie for about half of the movie – something a little more tasty about Back to the Future, or maybe even a little bit leaned towards the Breakfast Club – but that's part of the fun. Happy Death Day 2U obviously wants the public to be at the center of the joke, doing everything in its power to blink to the head of almost every college movie that it can cover in every scene. You call it, this movie l? A.

The playful spirit is not limited to characters and narrative tropes. There are no less than three major slow-motion editing moments, each set to inappropriate music notes, each lasting a little too long to feel organic. There is a secondary family intrigue. There is even a protracted and abrupt pivot that suddenly becomes a heist film that is as out of scope as it looks.

Rothe is deliciously flexible on the literal and figurative carousel of 2U. Tree manages to play and defy Clbadic Girl's clbadic conventions by maintaining a happy gallows humor to temper his anger and frustration. In a movie that is supposed to watch a girl die again and again, Rothe manages to sell the hilarity and tension without ever feeling feitshist. Yes, Tree is punished again and again, but her power is never really stripped, because she is as good as the public.

And then there is Tree's boyfriend, Carter Davis (Israel Broussard), who unfortunately plays an important role in motivating Tree's decisions. It's not that Broussard's performance is inadequate, but the script puts too much emphasis on the apparent connection of Tree and Carter at the level of the soulmate to really feel authentic . 2U is the weakest when he tries to exchange his disrespect for sincerity and that poor Carter seems to be almost entirely built to be sincere.

Of course, while all this hop story unfolds, there is always a killer on foot. The famous Baby Face Killer of Happy Death Day is back with a vengeance and the mystery is fun – at least when he remembers to exist. Unsurprisingly, 2U is a widely used movie and, from time to time, it seems to forget that it's a horrible movie, raging at full speed in the country of science fiction before suddenly coming back to the research from whom the killer is.