IT Chapter 2 Review

I saw the film on the 7^th of September 2019 and honestly wasn’t that impressed. All rights and images belong to Warner Bros Studios.

THIS REVIEW ALSO CONTAINS MASSIVE SPOILERS! YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED!

My favourite aspect of the film was the characters’ lives after Derry. Even though they left their old lives behind and their memories got hazy, aspects remain the same. One of the scariest scenes in the entire film took place in the Bev portion of this. It was a terrifying scene depicting sexual and emotional abuse like what her father subjected her to. Eddie also let his mother infiltrate his life when he chose a controlling wife 10 times his metric body weight.

However, I must say ironically the ending was disappointing. In my opinion “making him feel small” was kind of a cop out. I thought they should’ve stuck with the tribal theme and had the battle of wills be similar to what Ben and Bev experienced when they all got split up in the sewer. It was just ironic because Billy ridiculed his directors for making him write a crappy happy ending whereas I think this was a kind of crappy ending.

SPEAKING OF BEN AND BEVERLY OH MY GOD THEY WERE THE BEST! I was sad in the first IT when Ben did all the graft and Billy just took all the credit. Ben had worked so hard physically and career wise to achieve all he wanted but still saw himself as the fat kid. Bev and Ben were what each other needed and I’m glad they ended up together.

Richie’s homosexuality really added to the plot I feel. His scene with Pennywise at the axe man statue was one of my favourites. You can see just how violated Richie felt when he found out Pennywise had found out what he fought so hard to suppress which is why I think he made so “your mom” jokes.

However why tf was Bower in this film. In my opinion he added literally nothing to the plot and was just there because the fans like him. I think it could’ve all been done by the Hockstetter corpse making it far more frightening.

Anyway, it was overall a good film so I would give it a 6 out of 10.

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