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Bear McCrearyActeurs·trices:
Jessica Rothe, Israel Broussard, Suraj Sharma, Phi Vu, Sarah Yarkin, Ruby Modine, Rachel Matthews, Steve Zissis, Charles Aitken, Missy Yager (plus)VOD (4)
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Jessica Rothe retrouve le rôle principal de Happy Birthdead 2 You, la suite du succès de 2017 qui était une succession de rebondissements absurdes et comiques. Cette fois-ci notre héroïne Tree découvre que mourir à répétition était bien plus simple qu’affronter les dangers qui l’attendent. (Universal International FR)
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Critiques (9)
Encore un exemple cinglant qui montre que parfois, il vaut mieux s’abstenir de tourner une suite, même si le film original a connu le succès. L’enthousiasme et l’anticipation qu'a suscités en moi le premier volet sont retombés après 20 minutes environ, quand le récit s’est embourbé dans un scénario de science-fiction qui n’avait ni queue ni tête. J’ai d’ailleurs envisagé d’arrêter le visionnage du film. Heureusement, l’histoire tourne à nouveau autour de Tree – sauf que ça ne passe plus, car le film saccage le thème pourtant si bien mis en scène dans le film original. Je me vois donc forcé de conclure que c’est un coup dans l’eau et j’espère que les créateurs n’auront pas l’idée de tourner un numéro trois !
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Christopher Landon and sexy Jessica Rothe are back together in a time loop, but this time it's much more complicated. The effect of the first film is sadly gone, and the lack of gore hurts the sequel, as there was a lot of potential to spawn a new slasher series in the vein of Scream, but that's not going to happen. The second film made twice as much as the first and we probably won't see a third. Fortunately, the film is still entertaining, Jessica Rothe is fun (the suicide scene a clear highlight), the supporting characters are likable, Baby Face appears a little less than in the first installment, and the final twist is again surprising, though not as shocking as the first. Creative, entertaining and at times nicely suspenseful, and as a horror film for youngsters, it's enough. 65%
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Tree is in a time loop again and someone is after her. When she dies, she wakes up again and gets a second chance, but this time it's more complicated, because she's in a world where the rules are a little different. Happy Death Day 2U deserves praise for not just being a classic sequel, but for trying to inject more sci-fi or dramatic elements into the story. Sadly, the problem is the execution. Christopher Landon may have had enough ideas, but as a director he doesn't have the chops to mix them into an entertaining film.
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The first part was more of a sexy black comedy for me than a horror or slasher, so I'm glad that Christopher Landon strengthened this note in the sequel, because fun is what matters above all. Another film would perhaps build a plot with time loops and paradoxes in order to amaze the viewer, but Happy Death Day 2U is "just" preparing the scene so that it can entertain, entertain and entertain, which it does. Jessica Rothe is just fantastic, whether she's angry, committing suicide or reuniting and saying goodbye to her mother, and the other characters haven't come out empty, either. What's more, the new group has a clear and justifiable place in the film. The epilogue seems to indicate the possibility of the third film, but at the same time we can take it as a joke at the end. I would like to see the third part.
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Landon surprises, and very smartly at that. In the first movie, he presented a fresh premise that relied on the effectiveness of the detective line and the reveal of the identity of the murderer, which was key to the resolution of the spiral of the story. In the sequel, he tries to retroactively explain the origin of the time loop, with the goals of the characters already revealed beforehand, and the viewer doesn’t need to tensely search for the “unknown” (in the mathematical sense) together with them, but through the reinforced principle of deadlines and, to some extent, the butterfly effect, too. And he really pulls it off at least in the first two acts. The events unfold in an unpredictable and entertaining way, the reveal of new differences in that one and the same day is gratifying and the titular dilemma that arises from the dying Tree is a strong enough element to deepen her relationship with Carter and to think about the entire plot in a broader context than would be necessary. This is no longer a slasher, the dominant line of the first part plays a very secondary role, but the narrative mode was still a lot of fun, and that’s why the last half hour bothered me so much: it delays the inevitable resolution only because it has to, and most of the scenes with the dean are just cheap and cringe-worthy. If it was 10 minutes shorter and the events got more straightforward as they approached the finish line, I would have been thrilled despite all the questionable logic, as it is, though, it barely gets to 70% with the mandatory praise to the again flawless Jessica Rothe, who could easily play a female version of The Last Boy Scout or Kate Winslet’s character in Titanic. Give this woman a blockbuster now!
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