Ron Jacobsohn Reviews It: Chapter Two

After It (Chapter One) became such a mega hit, earning more than $700 million two years ago, bringing back the audiences to Chapter Two, shouldn’t have proven a too big of a challenge, even its running time being two-hours-and-forty-nine-minutes. It: Chapter Two is much longer than any horror flick should be, but it does build up to something you can at least say is significant.

The story begins to unfold twenty-seven years after the group of friends sent Pennywise to a whatever parallel universe it came from, now our unlikely heroes have to make good on the blood oath they took all those years ago…

You would have expected Argentinian director, AndrĂ©s Muschietti, to have used the cache he earned in Tinseltown with the first movie to at least start some type of TV franchise on one of the streaming services, but he decided to go with his own moral compass, defying conventional Hollywood wisdom, as he recognized the value of… closure.

This movie is in a way dedicated to all of us small-town escapees, whose lives evolved much more than the place that we left behind. Getting closure, is the key and… exactly, if anybody cares to remember, what over thirty years ago the original Stephen King novel was all about – our fear in life of closure.

Personally, I just would want to know if this was the last we’ve seen of that creepy clown, the answer probably depends on how much money the movie will make at the box office. This is an undecided, very fearful, Thumbs in the Middle!

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