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31 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 86TheWrapWilliam BibbianiTheWrapWilliam BibbianiAlthough 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…
- 83ConsequenceClint WorthingtonConsequenceClint WorthingtonIt’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.
- 75The Globe and Mail (Toronto)Barry HertzThe Globe and Mail (Toronto)Barry HertzWriter-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.
- 70We Got This CoveredMatt DonatoWe Got This CoveredMatt DonatoHappy 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.
- 70ScreenCrushMatt SingerScreenCrushMatt SingerThe 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.
- 60The Hollywood ReporterJohn DeForeThe Hollywood ReporterJohn DeForeAlong the way, though, 2U throws enough wrinkles into the first film's action — if you don't remember it well, rewatch it before seeing this — to engage us.
- 60VarietyOwen GleibermanVarietyOwen GleibermanHappy Death Day 2U is more complicated than the first “Happy Death Day,” but in this case more complicated means less fun.
- 50Entertainment WeeklyChris NashawatyEntertainment WeeklyChris NashawatyLook, no one is expecting much from a movie called Happy Death Day 2U. Certainly not air-tight logic. But this chapter feels phoned in. And unless you’re really, really desperate for a new horror movie to check out, you might want to think twice about accepting the charges.
- 42IndieWireKate ErblandIndieWireKate ErblandWhen it works, it’s never better than a loving retread of the pleasures of the first film; when it doesn’t, it’s a head-scratcher of the highest order, a film that exists to push forward a franchise that seems to have already lost its way.
- 20The GuardianBenjamin LeeThe GuardianBenjamin LeeAn inevitable yet staggeringly unnecessary follow-up to the surprise horror hit turns a nifty concept into an exhaustingly convoluted mess.