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It Chapter Two

2019 Directed by Andy Muschietti

You'll Float Again

27 years after overcoming the malevolent supernatural entity Pennywise, the former members of the Losers' Club, who have grown up and moved away from Derry, are brought back together by a devastating phone call.

James McAvoy Jessica Chastain Bill Hader James Ransone Jay Ryan Isaiah Mustafa Andy Bean Bill Skarsgård Xavier Dolan Teach Grant Jess Weixler Will Beinbrink Jaeden Martell Sophia Lillis Finn Wolfhard Jack Dylan Grazer Jeremy Ray Taylor Chosen Jacobs Wyatt Oleff Ryan Kiera Armstrong Taylor Frey Logan Thompson Kelly Van der Burg Ari Cohen Janet Porter Jake Sim Javier Botet Peter Bogdanovich Stephen King

Alternative Titles

It: Chapter 2, It – Capítulo Dois

horror comedy

169 mins More details at IMDb TMDb Report this film

Popular reviews

Review by matt lynch ★½ 55

Great job turning this deeply idiosyncratic, sprawling story about collective trauma and history into Serious Beetlejuice.
Review by Demi Adejuyigbe ★ 55

This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.

It has been a looooong time since I disliked a big studio blockbuster as much as I disliked this one. The script is awful, the balance of humor and horror is so fucking slapdash and without concern for really nailing one or the other, and so much of this movie feels like Muschietti really wanted to sit in the theater next to a 15 year old watching it so he could lean over with a smirk and go "Pretty fucked up, huh?"

The CG de-aging and pitch adjustment of the children is so fucking ghastly, the homophobic hate crime that kicks of the film feels entirely out of place and pointless (I've heard it's in the books, but... who gives…
Review by IHE ★★★½ 70

This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.

Bloated but thoroughly entertaining. Mind blowingly perfect casting for what is effectively a retelling of the first movie but with slight twists here and there, the repitition of the structure may be tiresome to some (I certainly noticed it but they were mostly creative enough to keep me engaged).

The film is carried by a entourage of genuinely interesting, layered, believable characters who all feed in to the overarching message of the movie that tells us to not let our past trauma and grief hold us back and define who we are. Just about every performance is on point, aside from a totally unnecessary resurgence of the bully character from the first part who could easily have been cut from…
Review by Hungkat ★★½ 10

This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.

It was very surreal to see a 3-hour movie where a bunch of adults gets together to verbally bully a little clown.
Review by Lucy ★★★½ 10

“if you believe it does”

a lot like the first one in tone to a fault, the patterns growing a little old. it feels less impactful this time around. but still so well made and genuinely scary (also, i cried) so i can’t be too critical
Review by jay ★★½ 7

skarsgard and hader? call it a double bill

Recent reviews

Review by Blain LaMotta ★★½

An overlong Frankenstein's monster of absurd horror ideas stitched together in the most basic, haphazard fashion imaginable. The amount of flashbacks alone gave me a headache. But even though it fails as a jangling horror movie, it's actually a pretty fantastic comedy! Bill Hader alone makes this worth seeing and a scene with a bunch of fortune cookies is in my top scenes of the year. So, if you want to laugh, I'd recommend it. Otherwise, meh.

P.S. That homage to the THE THING doe...
Review by kweenyk ★★½

This is like a funhouse mirror version of its predecessor; distorted and silly. It had one cool scene amidst everything else that wasn’t even remotely scary. Also, the chemistry between these adult counterparts weren’t as strong, which is a shame because I could buy the physical resemblances to their kid selves. And finally, oh Stephen King, you lost me with Indigenous peoples’ mysticism trope tie in. This was not a horror movie anymore, it’s dark comedy. Anyone expecting otherwise ain’t (Penny)wise.
Review by nickkush ★½

Honestly, I wanted this movie to end for about an hour.
Review by jacobhando ★★★

It might be a bit more ambitious than the sum of its parts, and it’s messages may be muddled, but Chapter 2 is an improvement on the first. The scares are more intense, the atmosphere more fierce, and Bill Skarsgård continues to be a phenomenal presence.
The casting is pretty ideal, Old Ben sharing a striking resemblance to Young Ben. Everyone is praising Bill Hader, but yeah he is the best part of the massive three hour runtime.
The middle part of the film concerns the adults going at it alone, remembering the past and getting attacked by Pennywise. It becomes predictable and repetitive, and it could’ve been more skillfully intertwined together rather than doing one character at a time.
It’s scary in the moment, but it’s hardly nightmare inducing.
Review by Parish Malfitano

It all sinks.

Terribly written, awful acted, ugly images. Absolute garbage.
Review by Tom Hamburg ★★★

2 GREAT BILLS
Review by alonerdottie ★★

Nowhere near as good as the first one, way too long and sappy, solid however:
* AC, beer, popcorn
* Some real gross creatures
* Bill Hader is a national treasure
* Someone on twitter pointed out Bill Hader spends the whole movie in Jesse's yellow shirt from Nightmare on Elm Street 2: Freddy's Revenge and that's some next-level queer horror metatextual signaling, great job, costume people
Review by ZoomyRamen ★

Whatttttttttt theeeee fuuuucccckkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkk
Review by bella ★

pennywise has imposter’s syndrome pass it on