It Chapter Two needs more than just brilliant Bill Skarsgard

Rating: 4/10 (9 September 2019)

Bill Skarsgard, who was brilliant as Pennywise the dancing clown in It, reprises the role in the sequel. Although the character is nonsensical, Skarsgard has fun with it and he is fun to watch. Other than Skarsgard, i can't think of any other reason why i would even bother to go see this movie. The story itself is rubbish and, at three hours long, is two and a half hours too long; the half hour worth watching are those scenes with Skarsgard's Pennywise. This is not to discredit the cast of veteran actors and their younger counterparts who all show their acting chops as well, but the material they had to work with was trying too hard to be compelling and engaging and ending up neither one nor the other. This movie may be better than the recent Scary Stories, but that's not saying much.