Minus recognizing the faces of some of the A-list talent such as James McAvoy, Bill Hader, and Jessica Chastain, you buy them more as these characters who continue the same camaraderie they had in the predecessor. Even though it’s been two years since the first film, it feels like you’ve seen these characters grow in real time. Besides naturally bearing similar facial features of the young performers who portrayed the teenage version of these characters, each actor captures the cadency and mannerisms of them perfectly. Everyone was aware that this two-part story had to absolutely nail casting the adult counterparts for the Losers’ Club and they all bring home the bacon. All of the performances across the board are fantastic. I know the BAFTAs just introduced a new casting category this year and holy ding darn damn does casting director Rich Delia deserve at least a nomination for bringing this incredible ensemble together. To start this off on a positive note: holy crap. Chapter Two is both better and worse than its predecessor, but manages to stay afloat (goddamn it, I didn't purposely deliver that line) as a decent follow-up adaptation to a very unadaptable novel.
Over the course of time, I warmed up to the film and appreciated it for what it was. While it was definitely scary and prospered from great performances by the young ensemble and Bill Skarsgård, the incoherent tone kept taking me out of it. Damaged by the experiences of their past, they must each conquer their deepest fears to destroy Pennywise once and for all… putting them directly in the path of the clown that has become deadlier than ever.įirst and foremost, I initially wasn't a fan of IT Chapter One.
However, kids are disappearing again, so Mike, the only one of the group to remain in their hometown, calls the others home.
Now adults, the Losers have long since gone their separate ways. Twenty-seven years after the Losers’ Club defeated Pennywise, he has returned to terrorize the town of Derry once more. These rock-bottom expectations enabled me to enter the theater with the open-mindedness necessary to assess Chapter Two objectively, and my conclusion is this – while miles better than what I had been anticipating, It Chapter Two is still a long, tedious, repetitive, and stale attempt at horror that is salvaged only by its unexpected humour and admittedly spot-on cast.Ĭontinue reading Let’s Talk About: It Chapter Two Posted in Film Critiques Tagged 2019, adaptation, Andy Bean, Andy Muschietti, Bill Hader, Bill Skarsgard, Chapter Two, comedy, Critique, Derry, Film, horror, Isaiah Mustafa, It, James McAvoy, James Ransone, Jay Ryan, Jessica Chastain, Maine, Novel, Pennywise the Clown, Snooty, Stephen King, Warner Bros.Evil resurfaces in Derry as director Andy Muschietti reunites the Losers’ Club in a return to where it all began with IT Chapter Two, the conclusion to the highest-grossing horror film of all time. This forecast was founded on the notoriously poor quality of the hammy 1990 television duology’s second half, the fact that the adults comprise the least interesting portions of the predominantly kid-focused novel, and the assumption that older incarnations of lovable child characters would be simultaneously cringy and dull to witness (just look at Stranger Things Season 3). I’ll keep this short and sweet… is not something anybody involved in the production of this seventeen-hour-long saunter down memory lane said at any point on set, even in jest.Īfter part one of the long-gestating film adaptation of Stephen King’s It took the world by storm back in 2017, I confidently predicted in my annual Top Ten that the inevitable second chapter chronicling the grown-up Losers Club’s final confrontation with Pennywise the Clown had nowhere to go but down the proverbial drain.
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