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
unfortunately, the newly-arrived follow-up Happy Death Day 2U doesn't seem to know what to do for an encore; the film is just more of the same, reheated and served up over and over again until it becomes a deja-vu endurance test
the cast and premise make this sequel an enjoyable follow up, however the failure to bring anything new to the table results in a film which could have been so much more
it's diminishing returns for a horror sequel that grinds the original premise into the ground while shirking on scares; straining the silliness past breaking, director Christopher Landon mounts a sequel that forgets to be scary
by Barry Hertz [Globe and Mail ]
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