Happy Death Day 2U Review: 4 Ups & 6 Downs

By Jack Pooley / February 13, 2019

3. The Snappy Editing & Pacing

Also like the first film, the sequel keeps up a steady clip and is sharply edited to keep the plot chugging along nicely.

Rather than forcing the audience to sit through Tree constantly re-explaining the time loop scenario to her friends after every death, Langdon slices through the fat and lets it happen off-screen, having confidence that the audience won't question it.

The hilarious death montage from the first film is back and, once again, it's an easy highlight, amping up the pace just when things start to sag.

You could probably argue the film still could've done with some minor trimming in its elongated third act, but for the most part it sees out its thoroughly reasonable 100-minute run-time exceptionally well.