Happy Death Day 2U
Universal Pictures | Release Date: February 14, 2019 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
57
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Mixed or average reviews based on 31 Critic Reviews
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17
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11
Negative:
3
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Critic scorePublicationBy date
86
TheWrapWilliam BibbianiFeb 12, 2019
Although it’s almost too much story, too much humor, and too many ideas for one movie to contain, the breathlessness of Happy Death Day 2U is irresistible. This is one frightfully clever sequel that audiences will want to revisit again… and again… and again… and again… and again… Read full review
85
IGNMeg DowneyFeb 12, 2019
The level of risk-taking is refreshing, even when it's not completely successful at every single turn. Read full review
83
ConsequenceClint WorthingtonFeb 12, 2019
It’s a pleasure to report that Happy Death Day‘s unexpected delights were in no way a fluke, and Happy Death Day 2U builds on its off-the-wall concept to even greater effect. Read full review
80
EmpireBen TravisFeb 13, 2019
What could have been a simple retread or by-numbers continuation instead throws itself headfirst into time-twiddling absurdity. High art? No. A total blast? You bet. Read full review
76
The VergeJesse HassengerFeb 14, 2019
Happy Death Day 2U pulls off a trick that isn’t especially easy for original movies, let alone direct sequels: it makes all the laborious world-building and storytelling effort feel like fun. Read full review
75
Paste MagazineAndrew CrumpFeb 21, 2019
Happy Death Day 2U makes deliberate moves away from horror, adding both science fiction and comedy to muddle the original mixture for better and also worse. For better: The film is even more of a gas than its predecessor. For worse: It’s not as much of a horror movie. Read full review
75
Slant MagazineHenry StewartFeb 13, 2019
Happy Death Day 2U pushes further than even matters of life and death into a realm in which stakes don’t even really apply anymore, concerned as it is not with how we live our best lives, but with how we can be the best possible versions of ourselves. Read full review
75
Chicago Sun-TimesRichard RoeperFeb 13, 2019
A cheerfully twisted horror/comedy/sci-fi mash-up with a surprisingly sweet heart lurking beneath all the bloody-rinse-and-repeat hijinks, which aren’t all that bloody anyway. Read full review
75
The PlaylistWill AshtonFeb 12, 2019
Landon uses this winning sequel opportunity to not merely redo his refreshingly animated original film but challenge it— building upon its kooky, evergreen foundation and expand the story in scope, scale, genre, and tone. Read full review
75
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)Barry HertzFeb 12, 2019
Writer-director Christopher Landon’s quick-turnaround sequel is pure self-knowing nonsense – a smoothly executed, briskly paced mash-up of horror tropes, time-travel paradoxes and silly campus slapstick. Read full review
70
New York Magazine (Vulture)David EdelsteinFeb 13, 2019
Stalk-and-kill movies bear some resemblance to classic farces, but no horror movies have taken the similarities as far as Happy Death Day and its busier, just-as-fun sequel, Happy Death 2 U. The new film repeats some of the original material but with even more madcap permutations. Read full review
70
Los Angeles TimesKimber MyersFeb 12, 2019
Like most sequels, Happy Death Day 2U can’t quite replicate the feelings of joy and discovery of the original, but Landon deserves credit for varying the tune, while still playing the hits that will please the fans of its predecessor. Read full review
70
ScreenCrushMatt SingerFeb 12, 2019
The cast was the original’s greatest asset, and every single character of note is back, along with the original film’s mordant sense of humor and surprisingly charming sentimentality. Best of all, 2U weaponizes your knowledge of the original — your confidence that you have seen this all before and you know what’s going to happen — and uses it against you. Read full review
70
We Got This CoveredMatt DonatoFeb 12, 2019
Happy Death Day 2U is a more ambitious, more entertaining - albeit less horror powered - time-warp sequel that proves Jessica Rothe's blinding talent no matter what dimension she's in. Read full review
67
The A.V. ClubA.A. Dowd Feb 12, 2019
The happy surprise of Happy Death Day 2U is that it does find ways to tweak the formula of its predecessor, to break the cycle of franchise redundancy. Read full review
65
The AtlanticDavid SimsMar 1, 2019
It’s one thing to make fun of the repetitiveness of a second movie, but this one manages to do that while actually expanding its storytelling horizons. Read full review
63
Washington PostPat PaduaFeb 13, 2019
Ultimately, Happy Death Day 2U doesn’t live up to its aspirations. Landon’s script may be better than his direction, but he leaves a potentially resonant subplot — one that involves existential questions — flat and lifeless, as if our most important choices were of no more consequence than a joystick maneuver. Read full review
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