what a drag it is getting scared

Rating: 6/10 (14 September 2019)

I 'm not really a fan of the "big screen" adaptation of King's novel.
What really annoyed me in the first part was how Pennywise was replayed. Only with Georgie did we see that mix of seduction and terror. And though Skarsgaard made a lot of efforts he never really reached Tim Curry's performance.
In It:Chapter two though, Pennywise was better "written" and Skarsgaard was more convincing...sadly, Skarsgaard's performance is mainly cut by too much CGI.
It seems that this Chapter Two wanted to be "more" than the first part. Scarier, Gorier, more violent, more disgusting.
Sometimes, it gives credit to the movie...but mostly, it fails to reach the objectives and makes the movie finally boring.
This fact is also due to unnecessary lengths like the "artefact's quests" of each character.
Some says that it deepens the character's profile, their story arcs;
the problem is that these arcs are unequal.
Bill Denbrough's arc's probably the most interesting where the ones of Richie tozier, Ben Hanscom or Mike Hanlon are barely told.
And most of all, these quests lead to nothing...Think of it, you could remove all these "artefact's quests" part and the "failed" ritual part using them and you won't lose a thing, the movie could still tell his story...
As for the long long long ending. All these lengths to finish by "le'ts imagine him weakier than us and we'll beat him".
Ok, The ritual of Chud is a battle of will but the way it is shown is really caricatural...Like the "mocking" of Apollon in Star Trek original series "Who mourns for Adonais" episode
As for the jump scares : use it too much and you lose the effect...After one or two jump scares, when the next one you're there, nearly saying to the director "Ok guy! Come on, do another one quick so we can go through the story".
So what remains : the actor's play...
Well, Skarsgaard was much better in this one, Mac Avoy is convincing though sometimes exaggerating his stutt...stut...stuttering!.
But not really enjoyed by the other's actor's play..well at least for the adult ones.
Isaiah Mustafah and James Ransone are OK; Jessica Chastain is inexistant compared to Sophia Lillis "light" and nearly each apparition of Bill Hader are boring.
So I would be unfait to tell the movie was bad but cut one hour of It:Chapter Two and you have something better