Pennywise vs. the Losers Club, round two.
Asthe brief initial responsesvia critics tweeting after early screenings signaled, the responses are mixed.
But most seem to have something to say about that runtime.
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Much of that, according toEWs Leah Greenblatt, is spent shoving scares down the audiences collective throat.
Perhaps its not really all that different than spending a chunk of your day bingingStranger Things.
(This film even has a Finn Wolfhard in it.)
So, whatever the grievances,Itlured viewers in again.
Read the first reviews ofIt Chapter Two, in theaters this Friday, below.
John DeFore (The Hollywood Reporter)Why isntIta prestige miniseries for some cable or streaming company?
And the actors make it work.
But the biggest problem is IT, because IT can be everything and IT can be nothing.
IT has no real rules or motivations, or rhyme or reason, for literally anything he does.
Because its a movie about the Losers!
AndIt Chapter Tworeally works when it concentrates on those characters.
(Which, in the end, is why Id still give this movie a positive recommendation.)
Pennywise preys on these personal demons, in ways that are much more elemental than before.
Muschietti is even hinting at a possible third chapter.
