Get ready for
some loose threads and a whole lot of panic about multiverse/time loop mumbo
jumbo that’ll make you think you’re in for a thriller. Within the first ten
minutes, they psych us out with the idea of the universe collapsing. They pull
a thread about two entities that aren’t supposed to exist in the same universe,
hinting at something horrible about to happen—and then whoosh, we’re in
another universe.
That’s how the
movie starts. We’re in a different universe where things are changed, and
Tree’s mom is still alive. Tree, from the universe in the first movie, is
thrown into this new reality where her mom is alive, and the people she knows
are different. The problem here is that instead of finding a fresh way to play
this out, the writers make us go through Tree’s life all over again, which ends
up being a bore.
In this version
of Happy
Death Day, the plot has Tree making it to the next day. Everything
would have been fine, but Ryan Carter’s friend, in his panic to save himself,
causes her to relive the day—not the day after her time loop, but the day she
desperately wanted to escape: her birthday. If you recall, this was the same
day the time loop happened in the first movie.
The movie kind
of expands on some characters from the first film while keeping the leads in
focus. We also get a dose of scientific jargon about the time loop, and let me
tell you, it’s as ridiculous as it sounds. The makers of the first movie
apparently felt the time loop wasn’t enough, so they added the multiverse. Yes,
get ready for an onslaught of multiverse theories. And for Tree to get things
back on track, she has to keep killing herself. Tree comes up with new,
creative ways to off herself, but honestly, it’s just boring. The emotional
buildup around Tree’s family reunion feels overplayed and forced.
That aside, the
plot of this movie isn’t as engaging as the first one because we already know
how things are likely to play out. It’s not fun to find out the loop was caused
by an experiment gone wrong. My advice? Just watch the first movie and save
yourself the pain of sitting through this sequel.
Financially, this movie didn’t perform as well as the first, and honestly, I’m glad. At least we’ll be spared a third installment.
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