Movie Review: IT Chapter 2

Hey Horror Fans

I was pretty wrecked this weekend, so I spend the day in bed and decided to watch the IT finally: Chapter 2 with the return Pennywise the creepy clown. The reboot of the TV mini-series made some questionable changes and naturally left some more macabre aspects of the book out so it could appeal to a wider audience which I felt left a lot to be desired.

Yet, the first one created quite a media frenzy, and it was more about the creepy performance of Bill Skarsgård and the loveable kids who made up the Losers group other than anything else.

Now with the kids, all grown up does chapter 2 improve on the base that chapter 1 did?

Poster for IT - Image source: - bleedingcool.com

What is IT 2 about?

Defeated by members of the Losers' Club, the evil clown Pennywise returns 27 years later to terrorise the town of Derry, Maine, once again. Now, adults, childhood friends have long since gone their separate ways. The then one by one make their way back to Derry to uncover the secrets of why Pennywise was never truly defeated and embark on one last adventure.

People start disappearing, Mike Hanlon calls the others home for one final stand. Damaged by scars from the past, the united Losers must conquer their deepest fears to destroy the shape-shifting Pennywise -- now more potent than ever.

What I thought of IT Chapter 2

I wanted to like this film as a fan of the original mini-series (and EVERYTHING Tim Curry did with the character). The actors were great. The cast was again all correctly selected. Bill Hader, in particular, steals the show. He is given some great one-liners to work with, much the same as Finn Wolfhard was, and he nails every one of them. There is also a great Stephen King cameo which isn't just a case of blink, and you'll miss him, he is given an entire scene with some hilarious dialogue.

Very early on in 'It Chapter Two' there is some wink-wink dialogue about an author writing a great book, but messing up the ending. Anyone familiar with the 'It' book or original mini-series will know the end was not well-liked. Which I thought might have been a nod to an ending we deserved but alas I was disappointed.

The film is exceptionally long for a horror movie at nearly three hours. The thing is though I can't see it having the same impact if it were much shorter. There was a lot of layers to fit in. This isn't your average "fast-food" horror like the 'Conjuring' universe films.

This is as much a drama in a lot of ways as it is a horror — the first half of the film, especially. A long-time is taken reintroducing us to the characters, showing us where they are with their lives now and building up their résumés again.

Then in the second half of the film (and yes I'm talking about almost an entire 90 minutes), the film kicks into hyper-drive with non-stop, in your face horror that gets tiresome. The movie has a few jump scares here and there that were decent, and then it just became overkill. And not scary whatsoever. All of the CGI monsters look ridiculous and ultimately take you out of the moment. Don't understand the obsession with CGI when there's no need for it and the fact that the real threats weren't played up more.

My rating for IT Chapter 2

To summarise, the movie was dull; the run time was exceptionally long for what was given, especially when you consider the source material had far more depth to it to draw from in the book.

There was an overuse of CGI, and the jump scares weren't all that scary. It was labour to watch this movie, and I can't say that I enjoyed it. I would have to give this movie 4 dancing clowns out of 10

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