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The story is said to see the adult characters from the first movie returning to Derry as adults to confront Pennywise and the young cast is expected to return for at least one flashback.Īlso in the news – Kenny Loggins to update Top Gun theme song, Danger Zone for the sequel The rest of the cast line up will see James McAvoy will be playing Bill Denbrough, Bill Hader is Richie Tozier, James Ransone is Eddie Kaspbrak, Andy Bean is Stanley Uris, Jay Ryan is Ben Hanscom and Jessica Chastain is the new Beverly Marsh.ĭirector Andy Muschietti is returning to direct a script from Gary Dauberman. Mustafa joins the cast to take on the role of the adult version of Mike Hanlon. Over the weekend, the final adult cast member to round out the cast has been announced as Shadowhunters’ Isaiah Mustafa. It’s far from the worst film ever made (hell, it’s far from the worst Stephen King adaptation ever made) but this nonetheless feels like a real missed opportunity to create the definitive horror epic.Over the last few months, casting announcements for IT: Chapter 2 have been drip feed to the franchise’s anxious fans. Even still, Chapter Two feels disappointingly like a film made on auto-pilot.
In part it suffers from being an adaptation of the weaker half of the source novel – the first film’s allegorical battle between a group of children and the personification of all their childhood fears was always likely to be more effective than a group of adults coming up against a fairground monster. But ultimately Chapter Two drops the ball badly at the close, eschewing the novel’s bittersweet melancholy for an unbearably cheesy finale.
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And Chapter Two does have its moments of skin-crawling ghoulishness, not least during a final act showdown that offers up a genuinely weird and Lovecraftian series of otherworldly nightmare scenes. The cast (eerie dead ringers for their younger counterparts) are mostly excellent – Hader and Ransone are a particular stand-out double act, while Skarsgård is as alien and unsettling as ever as Pennywise. As a result, far from being scary, it’s often just plain silly. Like the first one it mixes a fair bit of humour in with the horror, but unlike the first one it gets the mix all wrong – there’s a fine line between tongue-in-cheek and just treating your material as a joke, and the film gets on the wrong side of that line a few times too often with some woefully broad comedy beats. It relies far too much on heavily telegraphed jump scares, rather than on building a constant sense of atmosphere and dread. Not that it’s easy to see why the Muschietti and co felt their movie needed this much filler – at nearly three hours, Chapter Two feels punishingly long, particularly when nearly an hour of content could have been easily cut with precious little impact.Įven more problematic is that Chapter 2 is just not particularly frightening. Told partially through flashbacks to the time of the original movie, it’s a horribly repetitive sequence of basically disconnected scenes that at times flat-out feel like nothing more than cut content from the first film. This prompts the now grown-up original Loser’s Club – Bill (James McAvoy), Beverly (Jessica Chastain), Richie (Bill Hader), Ben (Jay Ryan), Mike (Isaiah Mustafa), and Ed (James Ransone) – to return to Derry to find their nemesis and finish it off once and for all.Īfter a punchy opening, Chapter Two unfortunately settles into a truly tedious second act.
Having been temporarily vanquished by a group of children in the first film, shape-shifting monster Pennywise (Bill Skarsgård) emerges from 27 years of hibernation in the aftermath of a brutal homophobic attack (perhaps Chapter Two‘s most genuinely shocking scene). Pennywise the Dancing Clown is back to haunt the Maine town of Derry in Andy Muschietti’s continuation of his adaptation of Stephen King’s IT, but this time out the joke is starting to wear thin – this flat, overlong sequel is a major disappointment.
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