Beep Beep

Rating: 9/10 (7 September 2019)

As a fan of Stephen King novels, and especially IT, I absolutely loved these movies. The first chapter was great but certain lacked certain depth and story building. I understand this was due to the nature of the horror genre as it stands today and to keep audiences interested you need to saturate your film with "gotcha" moments (laughs or scares). I was able to overlook the lack of story or character backstory in chapter 1 mainly because of how great the kids were together and how absolutely terrifying Bill Skarsgard was as the clown.
Chapter 2 dove into the depths and explored the lore and the Losers club in a way that I was expecting some of the first chapter to. Again, I felt there were some weird and misplaced jokes in this one as well, but with a 3 hour runtime, and having to tackle such a complex story, I'm happy with what they managed to cover. The cast was yet again brilliant and Andy Muschietti's direction was incredible.
My verdict,
Beautiful and breathtaking set pieces, cast top notch, stays faithful to the book, Pennywise and his many forms were super cool, jokes and jumps land a little off at times but definitely one of the best King adaptations.