It’s way more interested in the mechanics of cross-dimensional shenanigans and pocket universes and science fiction gobbledygook, which may or may not have basis in reality but makes for a good, fun time at the theater - especially when the film gets to its post-credit tag. But it doesn’t matter! Happy Death Day 2U, likely to the disappointment of many a horror fan, cares little and less about the Butlers and their designs on Lori’s life.
Butler, and instead Lori (Ruby Modine), Tree’s roommate and her would-be Grim Reaper in Happy Death Day, is the one earning extra credit. Turns out the timeline has shifted in Happy Death Day 2U in this universe, Tree never two-times Mrs. And his wife Stephanie Butler (Laura Clifton) is on the plot, too! Unmasking the new Babyface killer is low on the film’s priorities, though that does happen it’s Gregory Butler (Charles Aitken), the sexy college professor made sexier because he’s unavailable. When they don’t, she resets the cycle by swan diving from clock towers, drinking drain cleaner, frying herself with a hair dryer in the bathtub, and so on, each shown in a delightful screwball montage of carnage. What’s the old saying? If at first you don’t succeed, die, die again? Happy Death Day 2U moves away from the slasher element and puts agency over Tree’s mortal coil in her own hands she has to help Ryan find the correct algorithm to make his machine function, which means trying algorithms blind to see if they work. (It’s far more complex than that, but the details are just details.) Meanwhile, in Happy Death Day 2U, out this week, Tree gets sucked back into that time loop thanks to sci-fi shenanigans perpetrated by Ryan (Phi Vu), science geek, whose thesis project is, for simplicity’s sake, a quantum mechanics device. Tree bites the dust on repeat, and each time the loop refreshes, she becomes a better person, bit by bit. In Happy Death Day, Tree (Jessica Rothe), a university student, sorority sister and inveterate mean girl, dies on her birthday due to a case of knife-to-the-face, wielded by a sicko wearing a baby mask (because for some creepy reason, the school mascot is a baby), then wakes up at the start of the same day, forced to relive it until she figures out who’s behind the mask. Where could Happy Death Day 3 go? First, a recap. What felt like it could be a one-off film in 2017 has launched a sequel, which itself points squarely to a third, even wackier installment. Happy Death Day 2Uis on the way to becoming an improbable franchise.
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