IT Chapter Two - Review

Pennywise is back and so are the Losers. Here are few pointers about the movie: 

- The casting is perfect. The adult versions of the all of the members of Losers club are exactly what you would imagine them to be, may be except Ben, but hey, he worked hard on the bod. Apart from looking the part, they all were phenomenal in acting the part.

- The stand outs for me were, Bill Hader as Richie , James Ransone as Eddie and of course Bill Skarsgard as pennywise. 

- Hader was super funny and had a good character arc too. His chemistry with James Ransone was one of the best part of the movie. James brought out the vulnerability of Eddie. Bill Skarsgard, was amazing once again and one of his scene with a little girl had the tension which I wish was there in more scenes of the movie.

- Hader also had one yippie ki yay moment which was so well acted by him that it became the favorite scene of mine in the whole movie.

- James McAvoy, Jessica Chastain and Jay Ryan were great too. Isaiah Mustafa as Mike and Andy Bean as Stan didn't get much scope I felt. 

- All the kids were really good too. They were digitally deaged however I didn't feel the difference.

- The movie is almost 3 hrs long. I didn't mind the length but it could have been edited better. However, I feel a longer director's cut with may be a bit more insight on outside Derry adult lives of the Losers and better fleshed out middle portions of the movie would be interesting. 

- Coming back to middle act of the movie , it was a bit disjointed and didn't flow well. 

- The backstory of IT could have been explained better.

- The movie has its heart at the right place and the flashback scenes involving the young cast and then the transitions to present were well executed. 

- There were some good jump scares and also very imaginatively creepy scenes. Well done on those. 

- The movie is really funny and that works a bit against the scare element as the tension either isn't created or goes away quickly. 

- The chapter 1 was definitely better but chapter two is also fun and on the whole IT is very entertaining story of friendship. Part one had a major Stand by Me vibe, which is present in part 2 too, especially towards the end.

- Watch IT