Entertaining, yet flawed

Rating: 7/10 (6 September 2019)

For 2 years, I dreamed of IT, I craved IT, I missed IT!
IT Chapter Two is once again directed by Andy Muschietti, screenplay by Gary Dauberman and starring Jessica Chastain, James McAvoy, Bill Hader, James Ransone, Isaiah Mustafa, Jay Ryan and Bill SkarsgÃ¥rd.
Twenty-seven years after the Losers Club defeated Pennywise, he has returned to terrorize the town of Derry once more. Now adults, the Losers have long since gone their separate ways. However, kids are disappearing again, so Mike, the only one of the group to remain in their hometown, calls the others home. Damaged by the experiences of their past, they must each conquer their deepest fears to destroy Pennywise once and for all.
IT was a great horror movie, and it was faithful to the source material.. it was a great adaptation to part of the novel! So clearly IT Chapter Two was one of the most anticipated movies of 2019, I was so excited to see how Muschietti will make it, and after the cast was announced, I was even more excited! And there's a lot to admire in this movie, but still, the first one was better, and there're a lot of reasons why the first IT was better than the second chapter.. but let's start with the things I liked about this movie:
The movie was so epic, especially the third act, which was insane, I LOVED IT, the way it was directed, the performances.. Pennywise! Everything was amazing about it!
The performances were also great, the two Bills stool the whole movie, especially Skarsgard, once again he's my favorite part of the movie, even though he's not in the movie that much compared to its duration, which is a problem, but we'll get to that point later... Anyways, McAvoy did a great job too, also Chastain, but my second favorite is Ransone as Eddie, he did a great job to capture the humor very well, and he was amazing as scared Eddie too!
If it comes to the scary scenes, the movie wasn't scarier than the first one, that's because back then, they were kids, they were in grave danger, but now they are adults, so you don't feel like they're in danger or anything till the third act, but it had some good scares to keep the audiences entertained enough.
The movie also has a great message, the second chapter is even deeper than the first one, and funnier too!
Let's move to the cons:
Starting with the duration, the movie is almost 3 hours, the plot is good and everything, but if you think about it for a second, the movie could have been shortened a bit, yeah the performances were great, it was so good to see them that great that long, but still, some scenes weren't necessary, they just added time to the movie... The first 15 to 20 minutes felt rushed and you kinda feel like there are a lot coming at you, but then the movie moved slowly, but the cast managed to make the 3 hours worth watching and rewatching from time to time.
And with that length, Pennywise wasn't there that much, that could be disappointing to some, and some could be good with it, I'm right in the middle.
The movie is kinda filled with flashbacks, and the young actors are older now, so they don't look the same, so they had to CGI their faces and digitalis their voices to look the same, sometimes it was distracting, and the bigger problem here that they used so much of these flashbacks, sometimes for horror's sake and sometimes for the plot, and I understand that they had to do it, but they didn't do it good enough.
So IT Chapter Two might disappoint some of the fans of the first one, but still it was so well made, and it's emotional too, and sometimes people can relate to it.. with a great message at the ending, all of these thing made IT Chapter Two deeper than the first one, and with that amazing cast, the humor did hit even harder than the first one, but still as a horror movie, the first one wins the round, and as the length, lots of scenes could have just been cut and shortened, because the plot felt a little bit stretched to fit the length, but it didn't always hit! Also Pennywise lost his mystique a little bit, and there's not that much of him too. But still IT Chapter Two is so watchable and entertaining, and I think lots of the fans are gonna love it, and find themselves so satisfied too.
I'm gonna give IT Chapter Two a B!
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