Quick Review: It- Chapter Two

All things must come to an end, even Movies based on super-long Books.  Is it good though?

It has been 27 years since the events of the last Film and It is back in Derry, Maine.

This Opening Kill is kind of problematic, since it features violent homophobic people beating up a couple and then It kills one of the victims.  The attackers face no repercussions, so...um...yea?

This is enough to bring the group back to Town.  All but one- the one who stayed- have lost their memories, but they'll come back soon enough.

Meanwhile, Pennywise kills more people, including this little girl.

Oh good- this was necessary...

As the group tries to figure out how to stop the creature, it keeps up its killing ways and enjoys taunting one of them.

Yea- more child death.  This...makes the Film more dramatic?

The Film actually manages to be longer than the original Miniseries (if you cut the Commercials) and the main reason is padding like a B-Plot involving them retrieving an item from their past.

That means solo wandering around Scene, solo Flashback Scene, solo Monster Scene and repeat.  Joy.

Will they manage to kill the creature this time?  Will they manage to nail the ending in ways that the Miniseries couldn't?  Will I still miss Tim Curry?

To find out the answer to at least two of those, watch the Film.  It is On Demand, Video and HBO (where I saw it).

I feel like reading the Book would actually take less time.  It might seem disingenuous for me to complain about the Film's length after having no complaints about Avengers: Endgame.  Again- that Film is a build-up of twenty-plus Films and 10 years.  It earned it.  This is PART TWO of a Film based on a Book.  Why is this longer than the last one (by over 40 minutes)?!?  It feels like the people behind the Film maybe got too much leeway after the surprise success of the 1st Film.  Who would question any of their decisions, after all?  Regardless, the Film is way too long and really doesn't have the stakes it acts like it does.  Just like the 1st Film, Pennywise only really seems motivated to kill people *around* the Leads and not them.  He has some of that by the end, but you're already over 3 and a half hours into this Story.  To make up for that, Pennywise kills a bunch of kids.  It feels like you are just trying too hard to be salacious now, Movie.  For better or for worse, they stick closer to the Book.  I can applaud the idea, but that's not always the best idea.  A Film is a Film, not a Book, you know.  I also feel the need to mention the odd idea in the Film that a Character committing suicide is framed as an heroic act via curious writing.  What a good moral to send, guys!  The Acting is really good in alot of this.  I could have done without Stephen King being here, especially since he is just here to be META.  If you liked the 1st Film, this one gives you all that you liked- perhaps too much.  It feels like the kids' parts were expanded to be about 1/3 of the Film's runtime, which is way too much.  If you cut them and the excess Pennywise transformations, you'd have a better Film.  This won't sell you if you didn't like the last one.  On the plus side, at least they rip off a good Film for one bit...

A long, bloated Film that has good scares throughout.  The problem is that it is too much of the same thing for too long.