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It: Chapter Two proves bigger doesn't always mean scarier for horror sequels, but a fine cast and faithful approach to the source material keep this follow-up afloat. Read critic reviews
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Movie Info
Defeated by members of the Losers' Club, the evil clown Pennywise returns 27 years later to terrorize the town of Derry, Maine, once again. Now adults, the childhood friends have long since gone their separate ways. But when people start disappearing, Mike Hanlon calls the others home for one final stand. Damaged by scars from the past, the united Losers must conquer their deepest fears to destroy the shape-shifting Pennywise -- now more powerful than ever.
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Rating: R (Disturbing Violent Content|Bloody Images Throughout|Pervasive Language|Some Crude Sexual Material)
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Genre: Horror, Mystery & thriller
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Original Language: English
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Director: Andy Muschietti
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Producer: Dan Lin, Roy Lee, Barbara Muschietti
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Writer: Gary Dauberman
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Release Date (Theaters): wide
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Release Date (Streaming):
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Box Office (Gross USA): $211.6M
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Runtime:
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Distributor: Warner Bros. Pictures
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Production Co: Toma 78, Warner Bros. Pictures, Lin Pictures, Vertigo Entertainment, New Line Cinema, Rideback
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Sound Mix: Dolby Atmos, Dolby Digital
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Aspect Ratio: Scope (2.35:1)
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Ultimately an inferior sequel going bigger on the King without going all out. While the first film was a fun, but flawed sort of Goonies horror tale that took a very narrow part of the book, this one tries to have it's cake and eat it too picking up the leftover parts of the first film with abundant flashbacks and overreliance on the source material but never going all out with the most wacky parts of King's original source material. Its results are a mixed bag. The flashbacks don't quite work, because they grind the movie and lack tension because we already know who lives. The newer stuff is better, but for an almost three hour movie they're so afraid to go that deep into the mythology of It for fear of alienating audiences so they give a very filtered version of the story and overreliance on cheap jump scares. That being said, is the movie fun?...yeah, yeah it's still a lot of fun. Honestly I didn't even notice the runtime that much, it's just fun. It's like a haunted house at an amusement park, you ultimately know you're safe, it's not really that scary, but while you're in there you are having a good time with the weird creativity of it. Most of the cast does a good job as the adult version of the kids from the original, especially Bill Hader who is just hilarious, and the final 40 minutes are so bats*** insane I'd be lying if I said I didn't kind of love it. But then the ultimate climax with It is kind of a disappointment. I'm not talking about his final form, no spoilers, but if you've seen the TV special or read the book, yeah they keep that. No I'm talking about how they ultimately confront It. I get the message, but it felt like a cheap out to me, and really anticlimactic after all we'd been through in an ultimately 5 hour journey. It wasn't enough to ruin what was ultimately a fun, if not flawed, horror film.
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The Loser's Club returns to do battle with Pennywise once again in It: Chapter Two. After 27-years of peace Dairy, Maine, is rocked by a new string of murders, leading Mike Hanlon to call up his childhood friends to came back; but before they can fight Pennywise they'll have to remember their pasts and reform their bond. Featuring Jessica Chastain, James McAvoy, and Bill Hader, the cast is pretty decent; though they don't have the chemistry that the child cast had in the first film. In fact the old cast is brought back for a couple of scenes to recapture the magic, but they come off as rather contrived. Yet they bring some continuity to the series and beefs up what is largely considered the weaker section of Stephen King's novel. While it's a bit disappointing, It: Chapter Two is a pretty solid (through not that frightening) film.
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A pretty odd choice too undercut every scare in the movie, but I was less disappointed with Chapter Two than everyone else seems to be. I gave it the same star rating as the first Muscietti It movie, but if I'm being honest, that one was definitely better. Doesn't make this bad though.
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Watch a movie closely enough and you'll notice the best filmmakers share a dialogue with the audience. Expectations get subverted. Winking nods are exchanged. A filmmaker needles, prods, pokes and manipulates. When done effectively, you may feel you've gained a new BFF. Although we've never met, I feel that way about Brian De Palma, Peter Bogdanovich (who delivers a funny cameo here), and Billy Wilder. They speak to me. With It Chapter 2, Andy Muschietti clearly wants to have a chat with us. He knows how to creep us out, how to get inside your head, but it feels like he's that party guest who overshares until you need to excuse yourself to refresh your drink. Get too much of him and you're bound to say, "Hey, Andy, could you dial it back a notch? You don't have to say it all now." Still, he has enough in the plus column to keep him around for a while. I enjoyed his first It, and although I had never read the book, had a general idea of what to expect with the sequel. Twenty-seven years later, our members of the Losers Club have grown up and mostly forgotten about their childhood traumas, but Pennywise, the Dancing Clown, has returned to Derry to once again feed off of the vulnerable. Can these friends join together once more to defeat this monster or will this horror haunt them forever? From this description and the fantastic trailer, I had high expectations for a popcorn thriller filled with scary images. Each character will once again confront their worst fears, but with the difficulty of adulthood added to the mix. On that front, it delivers handily. What I didn't expect was a graphic early sequence of a brutal gay bashing. I understand it's in the book, but reading about it and watching it onscreen may just turn out to be two very different experiences. I don't have an issue with the depiction, but the execution took me by surprise for a big studio film. It doesn't help that the scene ends with the terrifying return of Pennywise, which takes the hopelessness to a whole new level. Muschietti truly understands film as a dreamscape with the unforgettable images of Pennywise reaching towards the water, slightly out of focus, and ready to strike. Needless to say, I put my popcorn down and dreaded the next two-plus hours. Luckily, Muschietti has the ability to keep things zipping along as Mike (Isaiah Mustafa), the only one of the gang to remain in Derry, gathers everyone back to fight Pennywise. All of the adults, Jessica Chastain, James McAvoy, Bill Hader, Jay Ryan, and Andy Bean, prove great matches for their younger counterparts. Hader in particular has the most dynamic role as the adult Richie, all grown up and working as a popular standup comedian. When the group meets in a fun Chinese restaurant scene, we get a great vivid sense of their bond with the added bonus of terrifying creatures giving John Carpenter's The Thing a run for its money. At best, this film succeeds in fits and starts, much like the first one. It seems to lurch from one character's fear sequence to the next, forcing me to count down how many scenes like this we have left. Fortunately, many of these scenes have great impact, especially and under-the-bleachers scene in which a young girl meets our highly manipulative villain. Muschietti and his cinematographer Checco Varese have created a treasure trove of memorable images, such as hundreds of those dreaded red balloons descending upon Derry in the gay bashing scene, a sewer pipe overflowing with water in a clever homage to The Shining, or Pennywise holding a bunch of balloons as he floats over a giant Paul Bunyan statue. He knows how to get you to wince, such as when one character tries to pull a balloon stuck under a bed, and seconds later, you'll scream. It's delicious trickery which carries over throughout the film. It doesn't hurt to have Bill Skarsgård back with his one-of-a-kind, viscerally detailed Pennywise. His body language and creepy vocal nuances provide an endless series of delights. With so many characters, however, the film struggles with forward momentum. We check in with each individual and ping-pong around to accommodate this large, unwieldy cast. Everyone does a pretty good job, but Hader walks away with the film as exactly the kind of person into which the swearing, motor-mouthed Finn Wolfhard would grow. Ransone also has a field day with his tightly wound Eddie. Pay close attention and you'll also notice a gay storyline, which, in light of the in-your-face opener, didn't really need to play things as coy as it does. Perhaps it's a misguided carryover from the source material, which set the adult portion in the 80s instead of the film's modern day portrayal, but after literally hitting us over the head at the start, the latter subtleties seem a little off. In the final act, the filmmakers choose to go big with a gigantic, apocalyptic CGI sequence which proved exhausting. Skarsgård saves the day, however, with some highly memorable facial contortions. Again, Muschietti may not have the most streamlined story or script to work with, but he does know how to etch certain moments into your brain. Even when things turn into a mushy "Hallmark Card meets Nike Commercial" type of sentimentality in its final moments, I give this film credit for some fine horror moments. Next time, I hope Muschietti gets to talk to us on a much smaller scale. I'd love to know what a quiet conversation with him would look like.
Glenn G Super Reviewer
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