HAPPY DEATH DAY 2U (2019) Movie Review

Colleges classes seem like a cake walk to Tree after her eleven encounter with a very determined killer in Happy Death Day when she strives to expose her identity. Just when she thinks she is finally free from the time loop, barely one day passes before she is thrust back into it in Happy Death Day 2U . She has one mystery left to solve.

Not only must she discover the cause of the time loop, but also she must assist in figuring out how to break it. With a new killer on the lose, time is of the essence. Her body endures an extreme amount of internal damage throughout her first eleven murders. Each new death put further stress on her body, and the chances that she will wake up decreases. She does not want to die, permanently.

Her new task to survive will put her intelligence to the test. She must memorize very complex mathematical problems in order to keep her friends up to date in the science lab as they use their contraption to break the loop. It's a crash course in psychics. She will earn no credit, and failure is no simple letter grade. Her life depends on her success. That is a lesson she could never learn in college. Instead, this would represent a life lesson.

Education is valuable, and Tree is wise for pursuing it. She is certainly more intelligent than her sorority sisters give her credit for. Let it never be said that the pursuit of knowledge is a waste of time or money. However, education does not end on graduation. People continue to learn through experience and hardship. In that regard, Tree earns more of an education than for which she originally bargains. She learns with the best of them. In both realities.

Complex math aside, she learns two other lessons during her ordeal. These are perhaps the most important lessons of her life.

1) She can't have everything she wants.
In another reality, she is presented with a difficult choice. She has a second chance with her mother. However, she must forfeit her relationship with her boyfriend, Carter. She can't have both. Which will she choose?

2) She learns to forgive.
Alongside her new relationship dynamic, she also faces a new killer. Her roommate is her friend once more, not responsible for Tree's murders. In fact, Laurie becomes a target. Can she learn to put aside an old grudge, accept this opportunity for friendship and save the woman who would murder her? Can she forgive Laurie?

In conclusion, the Happy Death Day franchise is more about people learning extremely important life lessons while standing on the threshold between adolescence and adulthood. These lessons (to love, to let go, and to forgive) are some of life's greatest lessons. Tree learns them under extreme circumstances. She journey illustrates that anyone can find redemption and change.

Let us find inspiration in her story.