IT Chapter Two
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It Chapter Two (stylized as IT Chapter Two) is a 2019 American epic supernatural horror film and the sequel to the 2017 film It, both based on the 1986 novel of the same name by Stephen King. The film is directed once again by Andy Muschietti, who directed the first film, and it was written by Gary Dauberman. The film is set in the year 2016, twenty-seven years after the defeat of Pennywise The Dancing Clown. The film stars Jessica Chastain, James McAvoy, Bill Hader, Isaiah Mustafa, Jay Ryan, James Ransone, Andy Bean, and Bill Skarsgård (who returns as Pennywise the Dancing Clown). It is the second, and the final film of the It film series.
Plot
Ever since Pennywise the Dancing Clown was defeated by the Losers Club in the summer of 1989, Pennywise has suddenly come back in 2016, just 27 years after its defeat by the Losers Club. One night, Don Hagarty and his boyfriend name Adrian Mellon are at the carnival in Derry Maine at night, and they encounter a youth gang, named John "Webby" Garton, who shouts homophobic slurs at them, causing Adrian and Don to leave the carnival, but were attack by one of his gangs at the bridge and Adrian is being thrown off the bridge into the water below. On the riverbank, he notices Pennywise the Dancing Clown is at the river, but he is attacked and bitten off his heart by Pennywise, Don catches and tries to save him, and tons of red ballons disappear both Pennywise, and Adrian, and Don Hagarty, witness the blood paint words on the trains bridge's wall "COME HOME" as the movie starts with the titles.
Mike resolves to call his friends back to Derry, and all of the Losers Club go back to Derry Maine, but except for Stanley, who committed suicide in the bathtub with blood after his call about Pennywise, the Dancing Clown has returned after 27 years. We cut back to 1988 at the storm drain where a flash flood goes through the drain and washes out the number of dead victims, all except for Henry Bowers who survives at the point where he fails to defeat the Losers Club before the Losers Club founded Pennywise, he returned home and he was placed under arrest for killing his father, muttering that he's not done yet and has to "kill them all." As he was taken into custody, he saw a red balloon floating by. He was locked up in an insane asylum for the next 27 years. At the Asylum, Henry notices a red balloon at the window, where he is locked up, causing him to excitedly chase the balloon along with the asylum's windows before he is locked up in his room, but he finds a red balloon under the asylums bed, and he yanks on the balloon until it pops. It, in the form of Patrick Hockstetter's corpse, emerges from underneath the bed and offers Henry his knife back.
That night, the Losers Club were all headed to "Jade of the Orient", a local Chinese restaurant, where all of the losers have been reunited because Mike refreshes their memories, and they're having a great table chat, until they begin to open fortune cookies, finding a cryptic phrase that reads "Guess Stanley Could Not Cut It", which it causes a much of horror started with the remaining fortune cookies begin to open, revealing disturbing monstrosities inside including a spider with a baby's head, a one-winged bat, and an unborn bird covered in blood, and all of the Losers started to fight with the horror creatures until it turns out they're having a vision, meaning all of the horror stuff were gone, and they're headed back outside Richie and Eddie accuse Mike of lying and upon learning that Stan is dead, try to leave, going back to the inn. We cut to a baseball game where a little girl named Vicki and her mother are watching a baseball game until she sees a firefly fly through the stadium, she follows a firefly until she sees Pennywise The Dancing Clown, who is under the stadium, and Pennywise asks her to get rid of her birthmark, but Pennywise pauses before it can say three, she is mauled by Pennywise, killing her instantly. Meanwhile, Henry Bowers has escaped from the Asylum by killing a lot of Asylums, he goes through a broken fence and is been picked up by Zombie Hocksteller, and he is on the move to kill the members of the Losers' Club. At the library, with an upstairs apartment, where Mike lives up there, he gives Bill some water, causes via a drug-induced vision to a backstory where Pennywise crash-landed in the forest where Derry was founded and shows that the Shokopiwah Native American tribe's Ritual of Chüd can stop It for good.
The next day, The Losers go back to their old clubhouse and show a flashback to where The Losers Club were kids at their clubhouse and we cut back to the present to find the seven items of artifacts from the past. To find them, they had to separate their group, Beverly goes to her old home and finds a pack of cigarettes she hid as a child, Beverly encounters It disguised as an old lady named Mrs. Kersh, who lived in her apartment where she lived, but she is suddenly turned into Pennywise, but was changed into nudity like a witch and chases Beverly, but before she can escape, she is encountered by an old man, and it painted itself into Pennywise's face, and before it can have a chance to chase her, Beverly leaves it behind and shuts the door, outside, she saw an apartment now has been looking deteriorating. Meanwhile, Bill purchases his old bike "Silver" bike from a pawn shop and he rides to the point where Georgie is killed by Pennywise. He looked in the sewer drain and saw Georgie's hand come out with his paper boat, but was being grabbed by several baby hands below the sewer, he managed to get away from the hands, and just then Bill saw Dean once again and he told him not to look at this sewer and tells him to get out of Derry with his family. Ben goes to high school and sits alone, but he starts to get chased by Pennywise once again and he escapes. Eddie goes to a pharmacy and recovers an inhaler, recalling a childhood incident where he saw his mother being tied up and viciously assaulted by the Leper in the basement. He encounters the Leper again and manages to get the upper hand until it vomits on him, driving him to hysterically run out of the pharmacy.
Richie goes to an abandoned arcade where he finds an old game token, which he remembers a bad memory of him being taunted for his sexuality before being attacked by Pennywise and a giant Paul Bunyan statue. As Eddie arrives home from the pharmacy, Herny Bowers suddenly comes out from nowhere and he stabs Eddie's mouth and goes on a fight between the Losers and Henry Bowers. Meanwhile, Bill learns that Pennywise's note that he is going after Dean that he is going into a Funhouse at the carnival in Derry Maine, he tries to save Dean at the mirror maze, but it is too late, Pennywise smiles at Dean and he was violently mauled by Pennywise by breaking the mirror glass, murdering Dean instantly leaving Bill shocked and saddened of his death. Back on a fight with Henry Bowers, Richie is close to leaving town, but ultimately changes his mind and he joins the fight to kill Henry, and he is killed by Riche with his hatchet. Bill wants to kill Pennywise alone, and he goes back to Neibolt's house to kill Pennywise, worrying is It can kill all of the Losers, but the Losers come to Bill and they join their team to kill Pennywise underground once again. Inside, they encounter a headless Stanley, who has turned into a spider and goes on an attack against the Losers, fortunately, they manage to kill the spider and go into the underground chamber where they previously fought with Pennywise when they were kids, but was flooded like a river, and they go down into an even deeper, and a bigger chamber with a huge hole where Pennywise crashed landed down a few million years ago, and all of the Losers puts down a Ritual of Chüd, and they hold their hands causes a huge red balloon pops. Suddenly, It appears one last time, and it is turned into a drider form, which is more powerful and eviler than it was in the previous battle with the younger Losers Club 27 years ago, and the blue deadlights rise.
Pennywise begins to chase The Losers Club, but they are split up into two different paths, Bill comes back a Georgie and Bill's basement, but is flooded with water, and Bill screams at Bill "YOU LIED AND I DIED!" and they shoot a younger Bill and goes back underwater. Ben and Beverly were on a different path, and both of them fell into a restroom and a childhood clubhouse. Blood suddenly comes out from nowhere into a bathroom and turns into a blood bath, Pennywise closes on Richie, and they manage to escape. Riche and Eddie are forced to look for a way out via three doors titled "Scary", "Very Scary", and "Not Scary at All", they try the "Very Scary" door, which has two body-less legs coming toward them, and they tried the "Not Scary at all" with a puppy but was turned into a scary dog, back at the chamber, Mike was being grabbed by It, but before he can kill him Riche threw a rock on Pennywise and he tried to throw a rock but was suddenly forced by It with its deadlights, Eddie overcomes his fear and deals a serious blow to It, saving Richie, Eddie thought that he had killed Pennywise but was fatality stabbed by Pennywise with its spider legs and it throws Eddie into the steps, much to the horror of his friends. The Losers regroup around the dying Eddie and, upon learning of the latter's experience with It in the Pharmacy, Mike and Beverly realize It can be killed if they make it small enough for them to destroy it. They go back and Pennywise attempts to kill all of the Losers, but they start to say mean things, which causes Pennywise to go even smaller, and smaller and become weaker, and it regresses into a small, harmless, and near scarless clown-like creature before Pennywise tries to go back to its drider-form, Mike grabs its heart and the Losers crushed it, and Pennywise instantly dies forever. They go back to now dead Eddie from his injuries, Richie tries to bring Eddie, but the whole chamber, as well as Neibolt's house start to disintegrate and begin to break apart around the Losers, and they force to run away, but without Eddie, leaving him died by the time the huge chamber collapses, they quickly climbed up back up, which is also collapsing as well, and they run through the sewers and even the Neibolt house, all except Eddie escaped Pennywise's scary place, and the whole Nelibolt house collapses and feel into the unground floor.
They went back to the lake and jumped into the water to clear out the blood all over them, but Riche had no more jokes to make, due to Eddie's loss. Bill and Beverly finally share a kiss underwater, and the Losers go back to Derry and they look at their past selves when they were kids. Back at his office, he notices his letter from Stanley just before he killed himself, stating that he knows that he was far too terrified to return and would, therefore, hold them back while telling them to live life to the fullest. Meanwhile, Ben and Beverly start a romantic relationship and Richie returns to the bridge where he had once carved the initials of him and another person, now revealed to be Eddie. Richie re-carves them before leaving. The movie ends with Mike driving away with his car and his stuff, leaving Derry, Maine altogether to start his new life as the scene slowly fades to black.
Why IT'll Float Again (No Pun Intended)
- It's the ultimate conclusion to the film series, which adapts the second part of the novel.
- Bill Skarsgård still did an amazing job as Pennywise the Dancing Clown, and he is at his best here, with it being stronger, evil, and powerful than ever.
- Unlike the 1990 miniseries' adult actors, the adult actors/actresses give off amazing performances as the older Losers' Club, and it was widely improved from the 1990 film, a particular highlight being Bill Hader, who is extremely hilarious and even has quotable lines.
- Additionally, the Adult Losers Club is likable, much like the kids' Loser Club from the first film.
- Despite having weaker scares compared to the first film (since some are more funny than scary), it still has intense and scary moments that still make it feel like a horror.
- The film is still faithful to the book, even though it was less than the original.
- The quote: "You lied, and I died... YOU LIED!!! AND I DIED!!!"... end of story.
- Henry getting his comeuppances by getting arrested by police officers is satisfying for all the bullying and murder that he committed towards the losers.
- The romance in the film is not cliché or forced at all. The film does it well and makes sure it doesn't feel any of those things.
- Some of the set and creature designs are some of them were the best, and maybe better than the original since they give off a ton of nostalgia.
- It still has its good humor from the first film and doesn't lose any of it.
- It doesn't just cut to the future. It even has references to the original film, which gives off a good transition.
- The film has touching/sad moments, such as Richie crying over Eddie's death at the end.
- Just like Avengers: Endgame, the conclusion is pretty satisfying, albeit with some bittersweet tinges.
- Great ending; all of the Losers moved on from Derry Maine despite the loss of Eddie during the final battle with Pennywise, ending the whole chapter from the book.
Bad Qualities
- It feels too long at times at times, because it is almost three hours long, which can be a drag to sit through.
- The de-aging CGI for the child actors is pretty weak and kind of uncanny, with Jack Dylan Grazer (Eddie) being the worst offender.
- The scares are weaker than in the previous film; as already said, some are funnier than scary.
- The CGI on Pennywise's drider (final form) isn't very good pretty much, so the film almost tries to hide it through strobe lighting and the camera constantly shaking around.
Reception
It Chapter Two received mixed-to-positive reviews from critics, audiences, and fans alike, with praise for its acting, soundtrack, and themes but criticized for its near-three-hour runtime and weaker scares compared to its predecessor. On Rotten Tomatoes, the film holds an approval rating of 62% based on 381 reviews, with an average rating of 6.1/10. The website's critical consensus reads: "It: Chapter Two proves bigger doesn't always mean scarier for horror sequels, but a fine cast and faithful approach to the source material keep this follow-up afloat." On Metacritic, which uses a weighted average, the film has a score of 58/100, based on 52 critics, indicating "mixed or average reviews". Audiences polled by CinemaScore gave the film an average grade of "B+" on an A+ to F scale, the same as the first film, while those at PostTrak gave it an overall positive score of 76% and a 56% "definite recommend."
Box office
It Chapter Two grossed over $211.6 million in the United States and Canada, and $261.5 million in other territories, for a worldwide total of $473.1 million.
Trivia
- A cameo of the famous quote "Here's Johnny" from The Shining is heard during the final battle in the restroom with blood.
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