This is a movie review for "IT Chapter Two", released September 6, 2019. I watched this around November of 2019.
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror
Run Time: 2 Hours and 49 Minutes
Trailer
Official MPAA Rating (According to IMDB.com):
G / General Audiences
PG / Parental Guidance Suggested
PG-13 / Parents Strongly Cautioned
R / Restricted
X
Not Rated
Notable Cast
Jessica Chastain ... Beverly Marsh
James McAvoy ... Bill Denbrough
Bill Hader ... Richie Tozier
Isaiah Mustafa ... Mike Hanlon
Jay Ryan ... Ben Hanscom
James Ransone ... Eddie Kaspbrak
Andy Bean ... Stanley Uris
Bill Skarsgård ... Pennywise
Plot
The Losers Club of Derry, ME survived the demonic Pennywise the Clown when they were children. They made a promise to come back and fight Pennywise should he ever come back and, lo and behold, he does so Mike (the librarian that never left Derry, ME) calls everyone back. How do they defeat Pennywise permanently? Will they survive? Can they save the children of Derry, ME?
Rating Criteria
0/5 – No value whatsoever. Absolute waste of time.
1/5 – Barely worth any time.
2/5 – Pathetic but has a bit of something to hold the attention a little.
3/5 – Somewhat kept the attention but could definitely have used more.
4/5 – Good, but not awe-strikingly amazing. Could have maybe used a bit more to the movie.
5/5 – Go see it! Wonderful movie all around. – characters, music, theme, story line, etc.
1/5 - *SPOILERS*
Again, another movie that did not impress me very well to the point of forgetting about until after I wrote the "My 2019: Reviewed Books and Movies in Review" post. ...says a lot about this movie, eh?
Just watching the trailer and refreshing myself on this movie makes me shake my head and go "yeah, that was a waste of movie watching time; I remember how disappointed I was in this movie".
Mike manages to get everyone back to Derry, ME to fight Pennywise the Clown; all except Stan, the one we find out later had committed suicide (with a "this is the best way for me to help against Pennywise" letter that came at the end of the movie? wtf?).
Mike reveals to Bill that there is an ancient ritual to capture Pennywise (who is an alien....?). But you need to spend a LARGE amount of screen time to find artifacts to sacrifice for this ritual [WASTE OF TIME as the pieces aren't really used anyways]. Oh, but it is so you can remember what's going on or what happened in the past, since you forgot since you left Derry. >.> Seriously? The jump scares and the terrible animations that ensue just make you cringe and say "wtf am I watching and why am I wasting time/money to even watch this? Is this going to get better?".
Once they finally go through the act of searching for the artifacts and their memories, they come back and find that a bully from their past has escaped the mental institute and is attacking them. Do we have a reason? No, that's not really talked about at all. Thanks.... But the Losers manage to kill him before he kills Mike, so that's "good". *harrumph*
Bill finds out that there is a new family living at his parents' old house (the one they were living in when his younger brother was killed by Pennywise) and they have a kid. He ends up getting a weird premonition and follows the kid to the county fair, where he tries to save the kid from Pennywise. It is unclear if he does save the kid or not.
And off they go to fight the evil alien clown. Yes, alien.... The ritual to capture and defeat Pennywise turns out to be not helpful at all and they turn to imagination to help defeat IT.
Then they receive the note from Stan saying that him not being there was the right thing to do to make sure they'd win against Pennywise.... Like wtf....
Anyways, this movie was pathetic. I would recommend the mini-series by Stephen King "IT" that came out in 1990. Seriously, go watch that instead of this. The mini-series was 3 hours and 12 minutes long, compared to chapter 1 having 2 hours 15 minutes and chapter 2 having 2 hours 49 minutes [total of 4 hours + 64 minutes = 5 hours and 4 minutes]; watching the mini-series saves you over an hour and a half of watch time! The plot and character development was way better in the mini-series, but that's usually how Stephen King movies work {for example: "The Shining" by Kubrick versus the mini-series "The Shining" by Stephen King}.
The only thing that I thought was interesting was Stephen King's cameo in this movie:
Making fun of Bill's stutter was not nice but I thought it was hilarious that Stephen King was able to say something that he constantly hears: "I didn't like the ending". It is true that he has a hard time with endings and, as a writer, can you blame him? Every writer has their own weakness...
Anyways, that's all I have to say about this movie. It was so much "fill" that there wasn't much "movie" to the movie and I had forgotten about it until after I did the "My 2019: Reviewed Books and Movies Review". I will go add it to it now.
{Go see the mini-series of "IT". That's stuff of your childhood's nightmares.}
Thanks for reading! More reviews to come.
~ Gracie Mae DeLunac
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