If you feel like you've seen people review this before, then, well, it's your Birthday. Let me discuss it now...
A seemingly normal day for Tree- as normal as you can get when your name is Tree- ends in a big shock- someone wants to kill her!
A freaky killer in a baby mask- also the School Mascot's- ends up killing her dead. The End?
And no, I don't know if they stole this mask or if 'baby mask' is generic enough to be used multiple times. Do I care? No.
As you no doubt know, she wakes up in bed the next day and everything has started over again.
Can she figure out who the killer is and break the loop? Will she *actually* die after too many deaths in the loop?
More importantly, is there a sweet tale of finding yourself and changing for the better hidden underneath all of the killing?
More than I expected from all of the promotion, if I'm being honest. Happy Death Day doesn't 'reinvent the wheel' by any stretch of the imagination. What does it do is give you a good story about a character who grows into being what you- and she- hoped that she could be. She goes through quite alot- countless deaths- and comes out the other side as a person who is more honest with themselves and better for it. She definitely starts off unlikable, which is a risk. On the other hand, there is a very vocal minority who watch these Films just to see unlikable people die. I never *really* root for the killer, but some Films make it hard not to. If the goal here was to play with that convention, then good job. If not, I'm just inferring alot- nothing new. The whole 'stuck in a time loop' thing is also not new, even if you center it around death. Hell, there's a Show on Netflix about it- made completely separate to this Film, mind you. Even so, they make it feel fresh by having the compounded days have consequences. There's also a nice mystery to the whole thing- hopefully they don't SPOIL that in the Sequel...
A surprisingly-deep Film once you get past the stylized killings. It's not a *great* Film, but it will give you more than you expected.
And no, I don't know if they stole this mask or if 'baby mask' is generic enough to be used multiple times. Do I care? No.
I strongly recommend the sequel. It takes the story in a different direction entirely. That might spoil it for you, but it works for me. I love both films.
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