Happy Death Day Movie Review
A person with questionable morals and an overall bad attitude about life is cursed to live the same day over and over again--waking up to the same music at the same time every morning, seeing the same events unfold every day, and dying at the end of the evening, only to wake up the next morning to start it all over again.
Good guess, but no
Yeah, so Happy Death Day is almost the same movie as Groundhog Day (so much so a character actually references the Bill Murray film near the end)--the unlikable character, the repeating of the days, the multiple deaths, the building romance--except Happy Death Day isn't nearly as funny (though it does have its moments), adds more horror elements, and, despite all efforts, the lead character never does become likable.
And this dude(?) shows up
Aside from the Groundhog Day effect, this is a pretty standard PG-13 rated slasher film that doesn't really bring anything new to the table--except maybe the Universal logo intro at the start of the film, which is fantastic. An R rating would have done wonders for this movie--Tree (Jessica Rothe), the lead character, is so unlikable that seeing her repeatedly die horrible, violent, and bloody deaths would have been very pleasing, but instead, we get quick cutaways before almost every death blow to keep us in the PG-13 zone. Probably the most frustrating thing about the film is that it teases Tree getting progressively weaker every time she wakes up the next day, but this angle is inexplicably dropped and forgotten about at some point. The movie teases a very disappointing ending but then takes a nice little twist to recover--for a better ending, check out the bonus features, or, if you get it from Redbox and the disc teases an alternate ending only to tell you you have to purchase the movie to see this, check out the scene on YouTube. My girlfriend and I contemplated seeing this one in the theatre when it came out in October 2017--personally, I'm glad we saved the thirty bucks on tickets and snacks.
On A Scale Of One To Ten: 5
Happy Death Day Movie Trailer
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