It: Chapter 2 full of humor to be scary...

Rating: 5/10 (9 September 2019)

So maybe I'm in the minority when it comes to this line of thinking, but I'm starting to find comedy in the vast majority of movies to be tiring. Is it to sell tickets? Weak script so if you make 'em laugh, they'll like it more kind of attitude? Frankly I find it pretty bizarre and distasteful to focus more on comedy than horror when it comes to this particular story. The stakes are too high to be telling jokes. People literally die with one liners being their last lines of dialogue...wtf.
Not to say that it's ALL negatives here. There are some great moments hidden amongst the wreckage. The acting for the most part was pretty solid, within the more realistic and emotional moments. But we don't need one liners during situations of legitimate freakish danger...it doesn't work. If our protagonists don't seem to be scared, why should we be?
All in all, it's worth a watch, but sadly left me wanting more from a franchise that I personally felt fell into the same formula working for studios these days (Marvel I'm talking to you, etc). Let's make jokes. Lots of jokes. My family and friends are dying all around me...at least I saved money on my car insurance by switching to Geico kind of formula. I say let the genre remain the genre, and only insert bits and pieces of the others, in a much MUCH more subtle way...