HAPPY DEATH DAY 2U

Name: HAPPY DEATH DAY 2U
Item: HAPPY DEATH DAY 2U
Author: Aaron Minguez

"Stuck in a Time Warp Again"

Family Content: -2 Extreme caution for older teenagers and adults.

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HAPPY DEATH DAY 2U is a comical thriller sequel. In the first movie, a college coed named Tree found herself re-living her birthday and having to fend off a serial killer. In the sequel, Tree learns that the time loop was created by her new boyfriend, Carter’s, roommate, a science nerd who invented a machine to manipulate quantum mechanics. The machine creates a new time loop that inserts Tree into an alternate universe where her late mother is still alive. However, in the new universe, Carter is dating one of Tree’s sorority sisters. Tree must choose whether to return to her own universe while trying to stop the killer from killing all her new friends.

HAPPY DEATH DAY 2U is not as fresh as the original movie, but it’s still funny and entertaining. Several scenes between the heroine and her mother are very touching and celebrate motherhood. The movie also has a pro-life message. However, this is undercut by lots of foul language and some intense scenes of death and violence. So, MOVIEGUIDE® advises extreme caution for HAPPY DEATH DAY 2U.

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Dominant Worldview and Other Worldview Content/Elements:

Light humanist worldview where a machine transports the heroine to an alternate universe in the multiverse, mitigated by strong moral, redemptive elements celebrating motherhood and life, and a side character in one or two scenes is identified as a homosexual

Foul Language:

42 obscenities, one strong profanity, and three light profanities

Violence:

Strong intense scenes of violence and death with some blood (movie often cuts away from most of the violence but can show bloody after-effects, like pools of blood under corpses) include many scenes of killer stalking people with a knife and stabbing them, people knocked unconscious with objects, woman shot in stomach, woman comes upon a murdered woman in a hospital, woman commits suicide multiple time to give friends time to fix a machine that’s created a time loop

Sex:

References to sex, a villain is cheating on his wife and one side character is identified as homosexual

Nudity:

Brief upper male nudity

Alcohol Use:

No alcohol use

Smoking and/or Drug Use and Abuse:

No smoking or drug use but there;s a joke about drug use; and,

Miscellaneous Immorality:

Lying, characters steal back a machine taken away by their college dean, a time loop creates no consequences but closing the time loop will have consequences.

More Detail:

HAPPY DEATH DAY 2U is a comical thriller sequel about a college co-ed who finds herself re-living her birthday and being stalked by a killer again when some science nerds at her college invent a machine that creates a time loop. HAPPY DEATH DAY 2U is not quite as fresh but it has some touching scenes involving the heroine’s relationship with her beloved mother, which are mitigated by lots of foul language and some intense scenes of death and violence.

In the first movie, a college coed named Tree found herself re-living her birthday and having to fend off a serial killer. In the sequel, Tree learns that the time loop was created by her new boyfriend, Carter’s, roommate, a science nerd who invented a machine to manipulate quantum mechanics. The machine creates a new time loop that inserts Tree into an alternate universe where her late mother is still alive. However, in the new universe, Carter is dating one of Tree’s sorority sisters. Tree must choose whether to return to her own universe while trying to stop the killer from killing all her new friends.

HAPPY DEATH DAY 2U is not as fresh as the original movie, but it’s still funny and entertaining. Several scenes between the heroine and her mother are very touching. The mother tells Tree that being her mother was the best thing that ever happened to her. In addition to celebrating motherhood, the movie also has a pro-life message. For example, in one important scene, Tree tells the other students they have a duty to rescue other people from the killer, even at the risk of their own lives.

Despite these positive elements, HAPPY DEATH DAY 2U has lots of foul language and some intense scenes of death and violence. In one segment, the heroine decides to commit suicide instead of letting the killer stab her, to buy time for the science nerds to figure out how to fix the machine. So, MOVIEGUIDE® advises extreme caution.

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- Content: -2