Post by Vits on Oct 1, 2019 17:41:12 GMT
IT CHAPTER 1 had moments of humour, but they mostly came from the heroes' casual conversations or PENNYWISE (a supernatural child-killing clown) dicking around with his victims. The comedy in IT CHAPTER 2 is increased to campy levels, especially with how the heroes react to the threat. They do often seem afraid, but it's mostly "You gotta be kidding me" faces (they even say that sentence once or twice) and almost 4th-wall-breaking observations. It's not wrong to make a stand-alone movie like that, but this is supposed to be a sequel. It feels like it's part of the EVIL DEAD franchise instead. There's even a moment where a character (who actually looks like Bruce Campbell from a certain angle) doesn't display the pain of his huge injury and instead tells the others that he has seen someone from their past. How does he manage to recognize that person after 27 years, while being injured? Who knows. The movie still manages to be intense enough to be entertaining, and the performances are all very good, but the pacing is off. During the middle section, there's no real plot progression. It consists of each hero remembering a bad experience from their childhood, while they're dealing with PENNYWISE in the present. That kind of chronological narrative structure would work if this was (again) a stand-alone movie, but we already spent an entire movie with this gang as pre-teens. We know everything we need to know. These flashbacks are pointless. Wasn't the point of showing only the kids in the 1st movie to show only the adults in the 2nd movie, in order to fix the pacing issues caused by the flashbacks in the (very average) 1990 mini-series? If you needed to show more scenes from the past, why not that certain controversial moment from the book? Not that I want to see it, but I would respect the ballsy move to film it. I'm sure more screentime could've been spent on other things, like showing the parents' reactions to the news that their children have been murdered? Oh, and what about BILL DENBROUGH (one of the heroes) and his marital problems? That went nowhere. In every incarnation of this story, the love triangle between him and his friends BEVERLY MARSH and BEN HANSCOM has been underdeveloped and ultimately hasn't added anything.
6/10
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6/10
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