Mediocrity at it's finest

Rating: 6/10 (7 September 2019)

The casting of this was great and I was hoping for a good send off for this story. Sadly Ch 2 is mediocre, sluggish, and too long. As a King fan I am familiar with this story so I know how the book ended and I didn't expect the movie to be exactly like the book but some of the changes they made were so different from what King wrote that it just doesn't sit well.
*SPOILERS AHEAD*
The losers kill pennywise by forcing the creature into a baby's form and then tearing it's heart out and smashing it as a group. The reason I have an issue with this being the ending is we see the characters we are supposed to love and relate to who have been bullied their entire lives become what they hate the most, bullies. They have to defeat the dark by becoming dark themselves. I personally didn't like this and I don't understand the point of turning the losers into bullies to kill pennywise. I'm not sure why they chose to turn the losers into what they stood against so they could defeat pennywise but I thought it was a bad ending. I would've rather seen the ending how it was in the book.
All of that aside parts 1&2 combined equal almost 5 & a half hours, there is too much unnecessary material here for the average viewers and they should've just had one long movie. Chapter 1 didn't have any pacing issues but this one felt extremely sluggish in parts and like some of the scenes were just rehashed from the other film. They tried but they missed the mark a bit on this one.