Movie review: 'Happy Death Day 2U' keeps 'Groundhog Day' premise, goes back to the fu

[The Patriot]

Movie review: 'Happy Death Day 2U' keeps 'Groundhog Day' premise, goes back to the future

02-15-2019 06:19 AM

The 2017 thriller "Happy Death Day" took a "Groundhog Day"-like concept -- a young woman must relive the same day, over and over -- and put it in service of a largely uninspired college-set horror movie. (Turns out the day in question is the day of the protagonist’s murder, which she must re-experience until she solves the crime.)But unlike the 1993 Bill Murray comedy, some people never learn from their mistakes, no matter how often they repeat them.


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