Film Review - Happy Death Day 2 U (2019)

Happy Death Day 2 U is the sequel to the surprise of 2017 Happy Death Day and Tree (Jessica Rothe) is out of the death loop that set her back in the first film but now her boyfriends roommate Liam is stuck in a death loop of his own which does not make Tree very happy.

I was very excited for this sequel as I was very much surprised by the first Happy Death Day movie, it was a film that I really only went and saw to fill a slot on my old Radio show with ABC South East but to my surprise I found myself really enjoying it so a sequel has come and could it deliver or fall in with the bulk that just end up disappointing.

Well with regret this is in the latter camp as I was left very underwhelmed with this sequel but before I delve more into that I want to talk about what I did like and that once again is Ms Jessica Rothe she is as good as she was in the first film and she gets some great scenes in this sequel as well as carrying the film effortlessly on her own shoulders, I hope that she gets to do more movie work as she has a great screen presence especially when handling comedy.

But this sequel suffers from what I like to call the Planet Zeist Syndrome and allow me now to explain what that is, well in the original Highlander movie from 1986 we didn’t know much about the origin of the Immortals and we didn’t need one but so many enquired about it that those in charge of Highlander 2 felt they had to explain it and the explanation they came up with was that they were Space Aliens from a Planet called Zeist and it went down very very VERY badly with the Highlander fans.

Here in this movie Science is used to explain away the rather interesting concept of this Groundhog Day attempt at a horror film that the first film did and it got so convoluted and messy on screen that after a while I found myself losing interest and thinking that while I loved the first film I was not feeling it with this sequel and I got kind of bored with it after a while.

And so that was Happy Death Day 2 U and it joins the sorry ranks of Glass and the Lego Movie 2 as being another underwhelming sequel for 2019 and it is a real shame as I was very excited for all 3 of those films these things happen I suppose, 2 out of 5.