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Happy Death Day 2U

2019

Christopher Landon

Jessica Rothe, Israel Broussard, Suraj Sharma, Sarah Yarkin ...

5.1

5,829

Horror. Mystery. Sci-Fi. Thriller. Comedy Two years after the events of the first film, Tree Gelbman re-enters the time loop to determine why she was entered into it in the first place. She must also face a revenge-seeking Lori, who has been resurrected by the power of the time loop.

	Author	Review
United States	John DeFore The Hollywood Reporter	"[It] doesn't stick to what it knows will work (...) It contains enough wit and novelty to make you wish it worked better than it does."	NEU
United States	Owen Gleiberman Variety	"[It's] more complicated than the first 'Happy Death Day', but in this case more complicated means less fun (...) It’s all trying, in its way, to be quite clever and all very knowing/videogame/meta."	NEU
United States	Kate Erbland IndieWire	"When it works, it’s never better than a loving retread of the pleasures of the first film; when it doesn’t, it’s a head-scratcher of the highest order, a film that exists to push forward a franchise that seems to have already lost its way"	NEG
United States	Joe Lipsett Bloody Disgusting	"An admirable attempt to offer a new spin on a familiar tale that frequently works in the small moments, but horror audiences anticipating a second round of Baby Face will undoubtedly walk away disappointed (…) Rating: ★★★ (out of 5)"	NEU
United States	Chris Nashawaty Entertainment Weekly	"[It] doesn’t seem to know what to do for an encore (...) "[It] is just more of the same, reheated and served up over and over again until it becomes a déjà-vu endurance test."	NEG
United Kingdom	Benjamin Lee The Guardian	"[It] turns a nifty concept into an exhaustingly convoluted mess (...) Everything about 'Happy Death Day 2U' feels ill-advised and half-wrought (…) Rating: ★ (out of 5)"	NEG
United States	David Crow Den of Geek	"[It] offers an unneeded explanation for its time loop to excuse a flimsy sequel... but it has spectacular dark comedy deaths. (…) Rating: ★★½ (out of 5)"	NEU
United States	Tomris Laffly rogerebert.com	"[It] gives up on all the strengths that made its predecessor an appealing watch (...) [It] is neither entertaining nor knowingly overindulgent (…) Rating: ★½ (out of 4)"	NEG
United Kingdom	Ben Travis Empire	"An entertainingly bonkers funhouse ride (...) High art? No. A total blast? You bet (…) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United States	Glenn Kenny The New York Times	"Jessica Rothe as Tree is still an appealing presence. But the film is overstuffed with unfunny self-parodying gore slapstick, half-felt sentimentality and semi-meta sci-fi"	NEU
Canada	Barry Hertz The Globe and Mail	"Landon’s quick-turnaround sequel is pure self-knowing nonsense – a smoothly executed, briskly paced mash-up of horror tropes (…) Rating: ★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
Canada	Sandy Schaefer Screen Rant	"[It] should please fans of the original movie, seeing as it doubles down on the elements that most people appeared to enjoy about the first 'Happy Death Day' (namely, the horror-comedy) (…) Rating: ★★★½ (out of 5)"	POS

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