Below Average.

Rating: 5/10 (8 June 2020)

I enjoyed chapter 1 - didn't find it scary, but it was a fun, entertaining blast. Chapter 2 is, let's be clear, far too long. At two hours fifty minutes, it could easily lose an hour's running time with little difficulty - a generic 'getting the gang back together' riff being one of the chief offenders. It drags so much, that by the time the final hour or so rolls around, I was just tired. It's a pretty diverting final hour, but it too is needlessly extended. With the talent around this movie, there's an interesting and potentially frightening take on childhood trauma and memory buried somewhere; but that movie is buried beneath the acres pointlessness.