Sean’s movie thoughts

Happy Death Day to 2U holds up on re-watching it. This is more science fiction than horror but that is okay. In this movie Tree Gelbman (Jessica Rothe) gets pushed into another dimension. Things are different, like she and Carter (Israel Broussard) aren’t dating in this new dimension and Tree’s mother is still alive. Tree has to decided what to do and there is still a masked killer out there. Jessica Rothe is really good in this series. She expresses anger at being put back in a time loop. She has really emotional scenes with her mother. She can also play the comedic elements. She has a nice chemistry with Israel Broussard. Israel Broussard is good in this movie. At first I thought he needed a bit more to do but on re-watch I think he more to do than I noticed on my first watch. He gives a nice speech to Tree. If this is the last movie in the series, that might be okay. The two films are good but maybe a third film would pushing luck too far.

Happy Death Day 2U is pretty good. It had some emotional moments I was not expecting and Jessica Rothe was really good as Tree. (These moments involve Tree’s mother.)  I am even more disappointed now that the Valley Girl remake she was in has been put on a shelf to rot. I am not going to spoil anything, so I won’t go over the plot in detail. Basically this movie reveals the origin of the time loop from the last movie. Tree, Carter, Ryan (Carter’s roommate), and some of Ryan’s science student friends try to figure the situation out. Technically this is a horror movie but it is more of a comedy than a horror movie. Even some of the deaths are played for comedic effect. It helps if you have seen the first movie but I think people who didn’t see that movie can enjoy this one. The end of the film hints at another sequel. Maybe Israel Broussard’s Carter could get a bit more to in  the third movie, if there is one.