The kids did better

Rating: 7/10 (9 September 2019)

Not that it's bad, it's just that the adult era, if you'd say, was basically a stretching of the attempt to come up with a conclusion of the events in chapter one. All the elements of the novel, both the characters and the concept, were presented in chapter one, while chapter 2 merely turned-off the camera for 27 years, turned it back on, and had the heroes get back to finish a job previously thought over with, without anything new that's genuinely rooted in their lives as adults, all while spending considerable amounts of time glimpsing back on their past experiences and throwing flashbacks of their time as kids that at some point it felt like the idea of this second chapter was not really as a continuation of the first, but rather an attempt, and not a successful one at that, to apparently try and reflect on it, while at the mean time reliving the same kinds of horrors again, up to the point where they finally re-battle again and the nightmare would be over for good. I think this second chapter simply suffered from an attempt to make it more understandable to audience who didn't see the first one, which in a way made it somewhat fall short of expectations for those who did and also resulted in its running time being prolonged, my opinion.
That said, the movie is scary - though not as much as the first - and is technically excellent. It also delivers a nice conclusion where what has been seemingly a physical challenge that couldn't feel more tangible or real is cracked down by realizing and confronting the essence of its existence, our fear.