Horror turned Sloppy Comedy

Rating: 4/10 (11 September 2019)

Chapter 1 was an astounding piece of new age horror. It brought new thrills and chills and kept that creepy feeling throughout and had just the right touch of comic relief in all the right places. They got it wrong in Chapter 2. This was NOT a horror movie. They focused much too heavily on the humor and fell totally flat when it came to bringing the terror there should have been to light. Even some of the more gory, or what should have been shocking, scenes where made much too light of.
Get stabbed in the face by a psychopathic middle school bully?! Let's laugh about it and make light of it as if it's nothing!
Dying on the floor after getting spiked through the chest?! Yeah, let's joke about that too!
Literally nothing in this movie could be taken seriously and it kills the entire flow of what could have and should have been an amazing end to a brilliant start!
Another huge disappointment is the utter lack of creativity that went into this one. There were a few nice nods to the book that never showed in the original 1990 TV adaptation staring Tim Curry, but everything else was just something reused from the first installment. Nothing unique, new, or special.
Needless to say I went into this film excited to see something as wonderful as I found its predecessor, and left feeling exasperated and severely disappointed.