Great acting and awesome scares

Rating: 9/10 (9 June 2020)

Wow wow wow! I mean this is part 2 of the newer version of IT! I loved the Tim Curry one, it is a fav. I have the book by Stephen King, but I don't actually remember ever reading it, so I do fall foul of watching the film before reading the book.
I really enjoyed this second outing with the Loser club, took me a few mins to remember who was who etc but it was quick to remember and I am over the moon that Jessica Chastain starred in this, in my head she was always Beverley!
Ok so yes they have changed some of the famous scenes we all know, and kinda love but some of them were awful. But I mean in awful as in yes they were over the top but my god they actaully creeped me out!
Take the scene when the Loser club meet up as adults and they are eating their Chinese reminiscing and wondering where Stanley is, we know where he is!, and when the get their hidden messages in the Fortune Cookies, I was proper squeamish. I wanted to look away but I couldn't, it was so over the top but it was fasincating at the same time!
Same when Beverley goes to her old home, we have the creepy old woman running around in the background, the kinda glimspe and you miss it, doing the twitchy thing I hate in films, but when she bursts back through into the room.....well one part of me wanted to laugh at the thing coming out the other part of me was thinking WTHolyF is going on!! I was like that throughout and it was riverting stuff.
Watching all the Loser club, relive their childhood, trying to find their tokens to do the ritual brought back the memories they have lost and wanted to keep it lost. I know I would.
I loved the cast, mixture of the unknown with the known. I love the actor who played Eddie, and it was nice to see little Henry from Dead to Me.
This newer version actually worked for me, but I am open to discussion on different things. Yes again, things are different, and I can imagine that a lot has changed from the book (I will be re/reading it soon) but if you take it for what it is, a horror film then it works. A coming of age story, where the adults are still haunted, their life choices are dictated by the actions as children, still trying to make a path for themselves, yet held back by the actions from 27 years earlier, it works. Because of this, you feel their fear, you sense the apprehension of returning to Derry and facing Pennywise when all you want to do is hide under a cover and never speak of it again. It would have been nice to have the Club, together in more than a few scenes and really develop on what had started from the first film, but I still found myself rooting for them to defeat Pennywise, I mean they have to right!
It has made me want to pick the book up right away and re-watch Tim Curry Lorde it up as Pennywise. Where Curry is more comical and easier to watch, SkarsgÃ¥rd is bloody scary to boot!
Just make sure you have a spare 3 hours for this film as it's a long one! However, you need every minute of it and if you don't like a scare, maybe keep a light on.