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'It 2': Intellectually breath-taking . . .

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Billy Wonka

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A pretty good film to end the two film franchise with plenty of action while being a tad too long. The overall story was well-planned due to the abundance of continuity scenes shot when the first film was in production. You get two casts working simultaneously which helps you to keep the characters straight. It's entertaining but not quite as good as the trailers.

Grab a bucket of corn and a blader-buster and be amused.

PS. Absolutely no eggs during the credits. (It's over.)

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RE: 'It 2': Intellectually breath-taking . . . - RGA 07:12:07 09/15/19 (0)
The first part was better but the 2nd part holds up well enough to not ruin the first one. As for scare factor the first was better but the second seemed to have a better clearer story if overly long. I think the main problems a lot of movies like this have is when there are too many characters there just isn't time to give them enough weight and build up like you can in a novel. As a result the characters seem too much like 1 dimensional archetypes. The films probably could have focused on 4 (5 tops) characters.

While watching I thought of Stranger Things but Stranger Things has full seasons so they can get away with a lot of characters and can build them up many many hours.

SPOILER:

I did like one scene that paid homage to The Thing (1982) and that was with a head that turns into a spider. The line "You've gotta be F-ing kidding" is taken directly from The Thing. I am sure there are others who have seen more horror movies than I and recognize other movie homages, but that was great for me as I always liked The Thing.
Yeah, my wife and I pretty much agree with you. (Small Spoiler Alert) - Raiderman 11:05:00 09/10/19 (1)
We too felt it was a bit too long.
(As much as I liked the kids in the first movie, we both felt that their presence in the second movie was a bit over done. We felt that they should have merely had them to introduce their adult counterparts, just once, and then hand it off to the adult versions for the rest of the film.)

Also, it was not nearly as scary as the first movie.
In fact, it was not scary at all to myself.
(But then again, I am a horror movie aficionado, so maybe I am not the best judge of what is "normal" scary.)
And, the first scene was too derivative of the first movie, which kind of annoyed me to be honest.
- RE: Yeah, my wife and I pretty much agree with you. (Small Spoiler Alert) - Billy Wonka 11:07:05 09/11/19 (0)
  It was pretty much a "creature feature". There seems to be an obsession with spiders in films like these. I guess test audiences tested well for arachnophobia.

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