It chapter 2 picks up 27 years after the first one ended this time the losers Club finds himself called back to Derry once again when their old friend Mike who still lives there discovers that Pennywise is back to his evil ways once more so the losers have to band together once again to figure out how they can defeat that evil dancing clown this was one of my most anticipated films of the whole year I thought the first one was really good captured the spirit of part of the novel really well kid performances were awesome direction was fantastic and since the whole team is coming back for this one plus James McAvoy Bill Hader Jessica Chastain and all these amazing talents my excitement was through the roof and there's a lot to like about this movie and there are some things that I'd like to discuss that I don't like much discussion has been made about the film's length two hours and 49 minutes it's a long long fucking movie and you can feel it there are scenes that is boring and you're like Jesus Christ there's an hour left and you have to acknowledge that there are parts of the movie where you're like wow this is really long and that's a problem with pacing because other Stephen King films like The GreenMile don't feel long to me because it's paced so well and the characterization is done so brilliantly that I never really feel that length while I'm watching it but here we bounce around so much between past and present and characterization is kept to a minimum for these adults because we know them when they were kids but 27 years have gone by now so obviously they're completely different people and they keep that characterization to like one scene each bill hader has an embarrassing stand-up act Jessica Chastain's living in an abusive house they try to do their best to set up who these people are now but they really want to get them to Derry and so it feels kind of rushed at first and the nonce they're in Derry it feels like they're just kind of dragging everything out for a long time but everyone in this movie is really strong especially BillHader I think he probably has the best arc in the whole film and so for that reason 

I cared about his character than most he's also very funny in the movie and early on once these characters all meet up to have dinner you can really feel that camaraderie again and that chemistry between these characters and they do a good job of making it feel like it's the people that we saw before those kids they do a good job of really making it seem like it's them this is really top-notch casting but just like the first film bill skarsgård as penny wise to me is the real standout this is such a great role for an actor, Tim Curry was amazing in the miniseries and skarsgårdis so creepy as this character but similar to part two of that original 90sminiseries this the film is not as good as the first one it's very uneven since these characters do have to split up the film doesn't have much of a narrative except that they're all trying to look for the same thing and Pennywise is back and killing random kids so that's not good so we have to go find some shit and then fight penny-wise and when you actually break down what the movie is doing it's weird that it's as long as it is because it's really just about getting these guys back to Derry I got to find this thing and then they got to try to fight penny-wise and for some reason it's three hours now look I fucking love Stephen King and the book is phenomenal and very long but there are things that just don't have to be in the movie there are sequences here that go on for too long there's a very strange the scene in an antique shop that was cool but like really on the nose and like really long and just felt kind of unnecessary to me and I'm well aware of things that are in the book that isn't in the movie and things that are in the book that are in the movie and I understand that you know there's always an argument to be made about well that's in the books that's why it's in the movie but that's not how adaptations work you have to know what to cut and in the case of this movie

 I think they just put too much in I think the biggest reason that this story from the perspective of a child has always been better to me than when they're adults is because of the way a child would react to something like Pennywise the clown that would be the scariest shit you have ever seen in your life and from the perspective of a kid the movie is automatically a lot scarier from the perspective of an adult sure some of the things that they in counter is rather horrible but some of them are just copied and pasted from the same fears they had as a kid, for instance, Eddie is still horrified by germs and so the leper is still coming after him whereas other characters seemed to have more adult fears that have manifested over time and gotten even worse some are just still scared of the same shit from when they were like12 and so it doesn't work as well from a perspective standpoint I'm not as scared when Pennywise jumps out at James McAvoy because he's fucking James McAvoy and this film more than any horror film I've seen recently has been a big reminder for me and that is that the perspective that your film is told from is extremely important it's the characters that you choose to let the audience in through can drastically change how you feel about the movie because this is the same team as last time making another one and it's just not as scary as before but the thing that took me out of the film the most was actually a technical choice they had to de-age some of these kids through CGI because they just looked too old now from the filming of the last movie particularly Finnwolfhard who I guess got really tall and he has a lot of work done to him CGI was and it is really distracting for me I saw this on a huge screen and 

I couldn't help but notice also, the other big thing is that it seems like they're using ADR or some sort of post-processing pitch-wise with some of these kids voices to alter them and some of them sounded like every single line they were saying had been processed differently in the post really distracting and I could not get invested in those scenes because it was just like assaulting me with this choice and I get that had to happen some of these kids just don't look the same anymore and if it's supposed to be the exact same time period it wouldn't work still what made the film watchable to me was this cast the cast is really pitch-perfect everyone's really good in the movie and you start to care about their characters because they're just giving such good performances the scares are not as scary as the first film some of that is due to a perspective shift some of that is due to the fact that in the first film they hid Pennywise a lot more he'd be in the shadows he'd be obscured or he'd be in another form and this film they kind of just show him walking around in broad daylight sometimes and it loses the mystique nevertheless it chapter two I think is ok it's not as good as the first it's about the way I feel about the second part of the miniseries I'm gonna give it chapter 2 C-guys thank you very much as always for reading guys thank you so much as always for look forward to more reviews very soon and if you like this you can comments write here and get stepped eyes