Pennywise fights the grown-up Losers in a WTF ritual battle of wills. Buckle up.
The most bone-chilling thing about It Chapter 2 is the slow realisation that you’re sitting through a three-hour movie.
I suppose we should have known going in, seeing as it’s based on a Stephen King novel that stretches on for 1,138 pages. That’s also what makes the Chapter 2 part of the title so amusing; the idea that his mighty meal of a horror epic could be contained in just two measly chapters, or even five filmic hours.
Director Andy Muschietti and screenwriter Gary Dauberman nearly pulled off this impossible task, and certainly came closer to realising the possibilities of King’s tome than the makers of the extremely average 1990 miniseries. (I haven’t seen the 1998 Indian TV adaptation, though the screenshots don’t bode well.) Whereas the book went back and forth in time, Muschietti’s impressive first entry stayed put in 1989, focusing on a septet of pre-teens fighting an otherworldly evil in the guise of the demonic dancing clown Pennywise.
To put it bluntly, It slapped.
In It Chapter 2, the kids are all grown up, if emotionally stunted, and called back to their hometown of Derry, Maine to kill Pennywise for good and end his 27-year cycle of harvesting children for hibernation.
And yet, despite that irresistible hook, terrific incoming actors and the return of Bill Skarsgård’s trembly-lipped Pennywise, this climactic instalment often flounders when it should float.
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