Happy Death Day 2U

The creators stepped into the same river for the second time (which wasn’t a problem thanks to a time loop) and I thought I knew exactly what to expect of the film this time, but the opposite was true. Based on my experience with the first installment, I knew it definitely wouldn’t be a horror film, so I expected another student comedy with traces of romance. Instead, I stared in disbelief at this weird film with a blonde Asian playing Jar Jar Binks. About halfway through, I actually started having fun (especially the suicides were inventive), but then came the last third which brought a lot of annoying moralizing and lame melodrama, which caused a sharp decline in my mood and a corresponding rating. (07/08/2019)

The first part was more of a sexy black comedy for me than a horror or slasher, so I'm glad that Christopher Landon strengthened this note in the sequel, because fun is what matters above all. Another film would perhaps build a plot with time loops and paradoxes in order to amaze the viewer, but Happy Death Day 2U is "just" preparing the scene so that it can entertain, entertain and entertain, which it does. Jessica Rothe is just fantastic, whether she's angry, committing suicide or reuniting and saying goodbye to her mother, and the other characters haven't come out empty, either. What's more, the new group has a clear and justifiable place in the film. The epilogue seems to indicate the possibility of the third film, but at the same time we can take it as a joke at the end. I would like to see the third part. (11/04/2021)

Tree is in a time loop again and someone is after her. When she dies, she wakes up again and gets a second chance, but this time it's more complicated, because she's in a world where the rules are a little different. Happy Death Day 2U deserves praise for not just being a classic sequel, but for trying to inject more sci-fi or dramatic elements into the story. Sadly, the problem is the execution. Christopher Landon may have had enough ideas, but as a director he doesn't have the chops to mix them into an entertaining film. (27/02/2019)

Even though I find elements in the American film Happy Death Day 2U that bother me, especially the exaggerated sci-fi and the unnecessary explanations, even the second time around it is a film I had fun with and enjoyed watching. The slasher is in the background, but it doesn't matter, because this is a film that doesn't get boring and, a bit surprisingly, it turns out that basically, the same thing can be good even the second time around. (29/05/2019)

What the fuck, just shoot yourself right now. If the plot itself is trying to transfer the heroine's fluster at finding herself day after day in a horribly lit world full of completely inept, unfunny assholes (the Dean!) who constantly have to drink, eat, and spout utterly terrible nonsense while doing so, my applause couldn't be slower. It's not, of course, because we're just talking about a morbidly stupid pretense of fun that's shot like a sitcom for people who find Big Bang Theory funny. For example, three-quarters of the film is medium close-ups on faces in such narrow focus that if the actor moved his head back 5cm he'd become a fuzzy pink flush. It's painfully unentertaining, overacted, unfunny, and off-kilter even in terms of its internal universe. The Czech title ("All the Worst") is also a review. (29/05/2019)