To Much Nonsense And Not Enough Substance!

Rating: 7/10 (6 October 2019)

Bigger is better! But that's not necessarily the case for "It: Chapter 2," which fails to make full use of it's overbearing runtime and lacks in original scares, but thanks to a faithful approach to the source material and a stellar cast, they help keep "It: Chapter 2" afloat.
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I actually have quite alot of issues with this one, so let's get stuck in. First and foremost, the film is drenched in CGI, atleast one out of every 3 scenes was full of it, and after a short amount of time, it began to get really noticeable. Then there was the constant use of weak jump-scares, and the worst thing about that was, I honestly don't recall jumping one single time throughout the film. Then the runtime, I mean wtf, there were so many times throughout the film I felt scenes didn't need to be there. And finally, the balance between comedy, horror and drama was so off, for example, there would be a brutal or heartbreaking scene and then seconds later someone's cracking a joke or trying to be funny and vice versa, and that not only took away a sense of realism from the losers, but it also made it very hard to feel any emotional connection to the adult losers because I was never sure when I should laugh or cry.
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Don't get me wrong, there were definitely a few times I laughed and 97% of the time it was thanks to Barry, I mean Bill Hader, who's an absolute star. Bill SkarsgÃ¥rd is terrifying and terrific, I wish they had more of him in his natural state because those scenes were the scariest of all. He generally is a brilliant Pennywise and I honestly don't think anyone could trump his performance as the killer clown. The rest of the cast all did a solid job with what they were given, so not really any complaints there, the cinematography is beautiful, thank god Muschietti managed to successfully replicate the eerie atmosphere from the first, and although there was too much of it, I did enjoy some of the CGI scenes of monsters, a handful were quite interesting to say the least. All in all, its definitely a film worth watching, but it's ultimately a film that will be quickly forgotten.