Failed in the shadow of part 1

Rating: 5/10 (11 September 2019)

It part 1 was a pretty much lovable movie, even if it wasn't the horror it should have been. It mixed the 80's charm with modern elements. It has its own flaws, but overall succeeded to be kind of a complete experience.
With part 2, as the movie has everything done again bigger and louder, even the flaws are more articulated this time. Too long, unbalanced, incoherent, even though i liked almost all of the sketch-like parts of each character, it was nothing really what we haven't seen in the previous part.
Even the ending was very similar, only complicated a bit more, longer, and somehow less scary. It's okay that they decided to stay with the clown figure, but meanwhile they forget to make him scary. And this is the main flaw of the films, mostly this one. Not enough suspense, but loud jump scares, and shoved in the face violent moments. Sadly it slowly started to be an older teenager version of Scooby Doo.
I guess the problem is that they wanted it to appeal for the widest range of audience, and it definitely hurts the possibility to become something a bit more edgy, creepy, rough horror material.
Overall, i enjoyed most of it, but i wanted it to be finished around the last half hour or more.