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I enjoyed his first It, and although I had never read the book, had a general idea of what to expect with the sequel. Get too much of him and you're bound to say, 'Hey, Andy, could you dial it back a notch? You don't have to say it all now.' Still, he has enough in the plus column to keep him around for a while.

#IT TAKES TWO CHAPTERS HOW TO#

He knows how to creep us out, how to get inside your head, but it feels like he's that party guest who overshares until you need to excuse yourself to refresh your drink. With It Chapter 2, Andy Muschietti clearly wants to have a chat with us. Although we've never met, I feel that way about Brian De Palma, Peter Bogdanovich (who delivers a funny cameo here), and Billy Wilder. When done effectively, you may feel you've gained a new BFF. A filmmaker needles, prods, pokes and manipulates.

#IT TAKES TWO CHAPTERS MOVIE#

Watch a movie closely enough and you'll notice the best filmmakers share a dialogue with the audience. It wasn't enough to ruin what was ultimately a fun, if not flawed, horror film. I get the message, but it felt like a cheap out to me, and really anticlimactic after all we'd been through in an ultimately 5 hour journey. No I'm talking about how they ultimately confront It. I'm not talking about his final form, no spoilers, but if you've seen the TV special or read the book, yeah they keep that. But then the ultimate climax with It is kind of a disappointment. Most of the cast does a good job as the adult version of the kids from the original, especially Bill Hader who is just hilarious, and the final 40 minutes are so bats*** insane I'd be lying if I said I didn't kind of love it. It's like a haunted house at an amusement park, you ultimately know you're safe, it's not really that scary, but while you're in there you are having a good time with the weird creativity of it. Honestly I didn't even notice the runtime that much, it's just fun. That being said, is the movie fun?.yeah, yeah it's still a lot of fun. The newer stuff is better, but for an almost three hour movie they're so afraid to go that deep into the mythology of It for fear of alienating audiences so they give a very filtered version of the story and overreliance on cheap jump scares.

The flashbacks don't quite work, because they grind the movie and lack tension because we already know who lives. While the first film was a fun, but flawed sort of Goonies horror tale that took a very narrow part of the book, this one tries to have it's cake and eat it too picking up the leftover parts of the first film with abundant flashbacks and overreliance on the source material but never going all out with the most wacky parts of King's original source material. Ultimately an inferior sequel going bigger on the King without going all out.

It takes two chapters