![]() ![]() While the film’s first act has its fair share of dimly-lit hallways and flickering fluorescent lights, horror is clearly de-emphasized on the whole. Shocked, Gelbman shares her story with Phan, who theorizes that an unauthorized experiment he had been running in the school’s quantum mechanics lab may be the cause of their shared temporal troubles.įrom this oddball introduction, “Happy Death Day 2U” springboards into an entirely new territory. ![]() Produced by the illustrious Jason Blum (of recent “Get Out” fame), the film picks up immediately where its predecessor, 2017’s “Happy Death Day,” left off, where Gelbman had just escaped a deadly time loop in which she repeatedly relived the same day after being murdered by a masked killer every night.įinally at peace and spending her first new morning with her boyfriend Carter Davis (Israel Broussard), Gelbman finds her world once again thrown into chaos when Davis’ nerdy roommate Ryan Phan (Phi Vu) bursts into the dorm insisting that he has already lived this day. Such is the plight of protagonist Tree Gelbman (Jessica Rothe) in director Christopher Landon’s “Happy Death Day 2U ,” a genre-blending sequel that doesn’t quite meet expectations. (Photo courtesy of )ĭo you ever feel like you’re living the same day again and again…again? ‘Happy Death Day 2U’ takes too much from first film, creating a lack of originality.
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