Happy Death Day 2U

"Death makes a killer comeback."

2019 1h 40m EN

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6.3

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★6.3TMDB · 3,755

ComedyHorrorScience Fiction

Synopsis

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Collegian Tree Gelbman wakes up in horror to learn that she's stuck in a parallel universe. Her boyfriend Carter is now with someone else, and her friends and fellow students seem to be completely different versions of themselves. When Tree discovers that Carter's roommate has been altering time, she finds herself once again the target of a masked killer. When the psychopath starts to go after her inner circle, Tree soon realizes that she must die over and over again to save everyone.

“Death makes a killer comeback.”

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Cast

Jessica Rothe
Theresa 'Tree' Gelbman
Israel Broussard
Carter Davis
Charles Aitken
Gregory Butler
Ruby Modine
Lori Spengler
Suraj Sharma
Samar Ghosh
Rachel Matthews
Danielle Bouseman
Blaine Kern III
Nick Sims
Phi Vu
Ryan Phan

Credits

Behind the camera

Director: Christopher Landon
Writers: Vincent Lucido, Christopher Landon
Languages: English
Countries: United States of America, Japan

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MONEY

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Made its money back 7.2× over at the box office.

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2 / 8

ERA

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Released 7 years ago.

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3 / 8

WORLD

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International production across 2 countries: United States of America, Japan.

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4 / 8

CINEMA

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Part of the "Happy Death Day Collection" — so the characters or world continue elsewhere.

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5 / 8

DIRECTOR

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Directed by Christopher Landon, shot by Toby Oliver. Note their partnership — DPs and directors often return to each other across a career.

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6 / 8

DIRECTOR

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Original score by Bear McCreary. Worth a dedicated listen after — most great films lose half their impact without the score.

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7 / 8

DIRECTOR

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Editor Ben Baudhuin shaped the rhythm. On an edit-heavy film, the editor does more to control your pulse than the director.

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8 / 8

CAST

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Jessica Rothe and Israel Broussard and Charles Aitken carry the top of the cast.

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Cinephile deep dive

The take

Christopher Landon directs. Toby Oliver behind the camera. Bear McCreary scores. Ben Baudhuin cuts. Made its budget back several times over at the box office. Produced in United States of America, Japan. Dialogue in English.

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Things worth knowing

1Made its money back 7.2× over at the box office.
2Released 7 years ago.
3International production across 2 countries: United States of America, Japan.
4Part of the "Happy Death Day Collection" — so the characters or world continue elsewhere.
5Directed by Christopher Landon, shot by Toby Oliver. Note their partnership — DPs and directors often return to each other across a career.
6Original score by Bear McCreary. Worth a dedicated listen after — most great films lose half their impact without the score.
7Editor Ben Baudhuin shaped the rhythm. On an edit-heavy film, the editor does more to control your pulse than the director.
8Jessica Rothe and Israel Broussard and Charles Aitken carry the top of the cast.
9Marketing tagline: "Death makes a killer comeback.".
10IMDB entry: tt8155288 — still the authoritative cross-reference for credits and trivia.
11Classified under 10 themes, including "psychopath", "college", "sequel", "murder".
12Released under 10 different titles around the world.

The technical file

Cinematography: Toby Oliver
Original score: Bear McCreary
Editing: Ben Baudhuin
Production design: Bill Boes
Costume design: Whitney Anne Adams
Makeup / hair: Mary Ashton Honore
VFX supervisor: Oliver Taylor
Stunt coordinator: Mark Rayner
Runtime: 100 min · 1h 40m
Aspect ratio (typical): 1.37:1 (Academy)
Status: Released
Budget: $9,000,000
Box office: $64,600,152
Return: 718% of budget
Original language: EN
Certification (US): PG-13
IMDB: Happy Death Day 2U (2019)

Part of

Happy Death Day Collection

"Happy Death Day" is a 2017 American black comedy slasher film directed by Christopher Landon. The sequel, titled "Happy Death Day 2U," was released in 2019. A third entry in the series, with the working title "Happy Death Day to Us," is in development.

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Manuel São Bento2019-02-21
★ 4/10
If you enjoy reading my Spoiler-Free reviews, please follow my blog :) Jessica Rothe leads the follow-up to Blumhouse's surprise 2017 smash hit of riveting, repeating twists and comic turns. This time, our hero Tree Gelbman (Rothe) discovers that dying over and over was surprisingly easier than the dangers that lie ahead. Jason Blum once again produces, and Christopher Landon returns to write and direct this next chapter. I don’t have a Happy Death Day review online, but I agree with the adjectives above-mentioned. It was one of last year’s surprises, and I genuinely had great fun with it. Overall, I would have rated it a B/B+, in case you’re wondering. But let’s get to its sequel and find out if it stood up to the original’s level… Short answer: no. Not even close. Honestly, it even diminishes what the first one accomplished. The 2017 original flick was a refreshing surprise because it took a different concept and mixed a bunch of genres in an unexpectedly entertaining way. It was funny, imaginative and Jessica Rothe proved to be a star in the making. 2U just has Rothe. That’s it. Its comedy bits only worked a couple of times throughout the whole runtime, and there wasn’t a single scary sequence that didn’t remind me of thousands of other familiar scenes done better in other films. This movie is simply an easy money-grab, and BlumHouse doesn’t mind if it doesn’t stand up to the original as long as it succeeds in the box office, which it already did. Unfortunately, that’s how Hollywood and the world of cinema works nowadays. If an unique and even risky film, one that was only planned to be a single installment, becomes a box office hit, chances are that a sequel is going to be produced, even if it has to wrongly retcon what happened in the original movie, consequently taking some of its value. This rarely works quality-wise, but I can’t deny that, as a marketing strategy, it’s very profitable for studios. My main issue with Happy Death Day 2U is that it risks too much with no reasonable payoff. Story-wise, it has tons of logical incongruencies, and I don’t buy the ending, at all. Christopher Landon asks too much of the audience since we have to accept so much nonsense in order to actually enjoy the film. In the original movie, the only thing we needed to “go with” was the actual concept, but that was pretty clear from the get-go. In 2U, there’s a compelling and captivating moral dilemma at its core, but that same dilemma becomes less and less like one by the end of it. It’s still a complicated situation, but it’s like they forgot what was really important and went with other poorly explained route. It doesn’t matter the genre from which you analyze this film. If you look at it as a comedy, you’ll barely laugh. If you think of it as a scary movie, you’ll never get scared. If you want to be intrigued by who the killer is this time around, you won’t be because the mystery is pretty straightforward. I really don’t want to rant on this film because I do love its cast and I really enjoyed the first movie, but it’s really hard not to be upset since it damages an eventual second viewing of the first one now. When the original installment doesn’t have an open door to other adventures, just don’t try to make a sequel for the sake of it. I know, I know… Money. Bah. I don’t want to end this review on a sad note, so I left the brilliant cast to the end. Everyone is fantastic, and I hope that at least this film can catapult some of these actors into the spotlight, especially Jessica Rothe. She has a tremendous range of expressions and incredible ease in changing between emotions. She can look scared, sad and happy in a matter of seconds, with tears and all. She’s a full package. I hope that she can grab either a major role on a big TV series or a supporting role in a blockbuster or Oscar-bait movie in the next couple of years. Surely, Jason Blum has some plans for her. All in all, Happy Death Day 2U does not deserve the box office success that it is having. It’s receiving a lot of credit due to the 2017 original’s surprise hit, and that’s unfair to the first installment. This sequel not only wrongly retcons unnecessary plot details of its predecessor, but it makes that correction its main plot, continuously reminding the audience that we just have to accept it. It’s not as funny, scary, unique or surprisingly entertaining as the original, and if the returning cast didn’t deliver strong performances, this would be one of the worst films of the year. Fortunately, there are a couple of good moments here and there, and Jessica Rothe alone saves the movie from a much more negative review. Oh, and please, do NOT make a third one! Just leave it alone. Rating: C-
Gimly2019-06-24
★ 5/10
A notable step down from the first Happy Death Day but I was still pretty happy with this. There are some problems though. Calling it repetitive seems like a no-brainer, given the content, but it's not so much that 2U is doing mostly the same thing as the first one, as that it's doing the same thing as the first one, and that all of the things that are changed are worse. I didn't need an explanation or really much of anything that I saw in 2U. But I guess something had to give if Happy Death Day was going to get a sequel, and as I said, I didn't dislike this. I actually actively did like it. I just don't think it was up to the standard off the first, which even then, was good but not great. Final rating:★★½ - Had a lot that appealed to me, didn’t quite work as a whole.
Peter89Spencer2021-02-09
★ 6/10
From the start, I was expecting the scenario would shift to another character, instead it went back to the main one from the first film. Plus, when I heard this sequel was in development, I assumed the plot would focus on Lori trying and failing to kill Tree through the same hilarious scenario. Still, this was an entertaining sequel.