Rent IT: Chapter Two (2019)

Long, tedious and all round poor. - IT: Chapter Two review by ML

Honestly, just save yourself the almost 3 hours of endless CGI "scares" of monsters running towards the camera, bad script, out of place jokes and all round general tedium.

I love a slow burning film but this was just painful, i was willing it to end by the 1hr 45 mark, and there was still another 1hr to go.

It really did feel like it was knocked up quickly to cash in on the part 1 success with no real thought.

In all, just a terrible film.

Not all It....I'll get my coat. - IT: Chapter Two review by Strovey

Chapter Two comes in at over three hours long. For what the story brings to you, the way it is paced and presented this is way too long. There is a lot of flashback padding a device that a lot of story-tellers like to use nowadays but something I feel is quite often unnecessary. The device of collecting their individual 'items' or totems to defeat Pennywise that has to be completed on their own, seems to be lifted from a video game and makes little sense other than to create horrifying scenes to scare the audience. For a supernatural killing machine Pennywise or 'It' is singularly crap at killing these individual adults who fall for his tricks every single time despite knowing what he is all about, he has no problems with other people though.

Pennywise is in fact a big problem for me. Brought to life with an enthusiastic unpleasantness by Bill Skarsgård like many movie villains he seems particularly inept in crucial moments and then deadly and all-powerful in others. In Chapter Two he is so poor at killing the protagonists who are already terrified of him, he feeds on fear, then he helps Henry Bowers, Stephen Kings stock psycho-bully, from the first film now an adult and in......shock again...a mental hospital, to escape to murder his 'Losers' enemies. Henry turns out to be dab squib, he was in the book if I remember properly and is fairly easily disposed of, I was never sure of his purpose in the story, even more so in the film. Pennywise is so cartoonish that he becomes a slightly more deadly version of Sideshow Bob but also is at poor at getting his tormentors as Sideshow Bob is. It just is not scary.

Andy Muschietti treats us to little glimpses of the films that he has liked in the past and whilst some film-loving viewers will enjoy this I personally felt it was cack-handed. In the original book Pennywise takes the form of films or popular culture figures that the kids would be terrified of, so Michael Landon's 'Teenage Werewolf' and so forth, the film-makers removed this aspect as they felt modern audiences would not get the references. Instead we get other references, not to do with the modus operandi of It that some modern viewers 'won't get'. Odd choice I think.

A running joke throughout the film is James McAvoy's Stephen King avatar, is constantly being told his stories have bad endings and he cannot write them. He's even told by Stephen King himself in another cameo yuk, yuk. The funny thing is It both in book and film form and in this incarnation rather prove the point. The ending, and in particular Pennywise's demise is poor and a letdown. From that point on the reconciliation of the 'Losers' is handled better but so many questions are swept under the carpet. People could not have forgotten which is hinted at is the power of It because It was dead. So there is a lot of destruction, death and mayhem that appears to have never really been explained.

It: Chapter Two is longer and weaker than Chapter One but is entertaining enough to watch but the real problem is the length, scope and themes of the story. This large Stephen King novel with multiple storylines, characters and time periods is really best suited for a multi-part TV series, which of course was created to reasonable effect back in 1990.

The film is okay but it's not all it.

Clever ain't I?

prefer the first one - IT: Chapter Two review by cp

this is not two bad but prefered the first movie was ok nothing special worth a watch if you low on your list

IT - Chapter 2 - I didn't realise they'd missed off the S and the H at the beginning of the title. - IT: Chapter Two review by JJimBob

I enjoyed the first one, and looked forward to the second. Should have stopped at one! I won't waste anymore of your, or my, time on a review - others who have criticised this film for having a poor story, being far far too lengthy, and relying on (in my opinion, fairly poor) CGI effects (not even worthy of some '80s horror flicks) have all hit the nail on the head. If it had been done and dusted in 90 minutes, then it might have been passable, but like others, I got bored, and fast-forwarded to the end - and even the cheese in this film wasn't tasty, despite its quantity. Horror film fans: avoid this one...it's neither good enough, nor bad enough, to warrant giving up 2h40mins of your life, or a slot on your rental list.

Sh*t : Chapter Poo - IT: Chapter Two review by SR

The title is essentially my review. I thought Chapter One was decent enough but this was terrible. Massively over-long, ropey acting, gimmicky scenes that aren't scary. It reminded me of the numerous Nightmare on Elm Street sequels in the 80s which became bad taste (unfunny) comedy pieces with Freddy as the pantomime villain. Don't waste your time renting this!

Thought this might be worth watching - IT: Chapter Two review by SH

This is a total dreadful movie it made me laugh once the rest was totally crap total waste of money making this movie

Dull - IT: Chapter Two review by F15HF1NG3RZ

Bored me to tears. Turned it off after 1hr 10minutes of getting absolutely nowhere and having had about 3000 flashbacks to the first film. Considering the all Star cast the acting was as wooden as a bad episode of Casualty.