Disappointing

Rating: 5/10 (11 October 2019)

After I saw the first film I was left wondering what would come next, Would they beat the famously terrible ending of the mini-series and would bill skårsgard beat the legendary performance of tim curry. I have to say the answer was a flat no for both those questions. The writing of its character was heavily dependent on jump scares that just aren't as scary when you expect them to happen and they end up just being some cliche jump out and say boo sort of thing. There are only genuinely scary scenes in the film, the first was the riverbank scene it was edgy it was shocking and brutally violent, the second was the scene underneath the seats at the baseball game it was similar to the opening scene of the first it film and it used pennywise taking advantage of the innocence and cluelessness of a child to lure them away instead of some cheap scare where he would just jump out at them, the third and final was the hall of mirrors scene, this scene builds tension and creates fear within the viewer by showing the helplessness of bill the confusion and terror of the kid and the vicious intentions of pennywise. Apart from the 'horror' aspects of the film I surprisingly found it quite funny there were often scenes in which I would find myself laughing, often when the film wasn't trying to be funny, but sometimes the film would attempt to be funny and the jokes were out of place for the movie, the joke involving The puppy was a joke I felt was more in place in a kids movie not a horror movie and looking back at it I find the joke irritating. The final scene was a disaster, the portrayal of pennywise as the giant spider clown made the crappy rendering of the miniseries look like Jurassic park, The death of pennywise was cheesy and annoying and left the viewer with a craving for more, it was dissatisfactory of the death of this god like being who has reigned terror in Derry for centuries would be defeated by some playground insults and the power of Friendship. My final comments will be about the terrible pacing, this film had a lot of story to tell but it did it in such an awful way spending way to long on the eventually pointless hunt and made the 2 hour 43 minute film feel like being on a plane, where you feel trapped and bored for extensive amounts of time. All in all I wish I hadn't paid money to see this hot pile of garbage