It’s back. Twenty-seven years after the shape-shifting, child-killing clown Pennywise (Bill Skarsgård) was seemingly defeated by the Losers Club of Derry, Maine, the now-grown up group of outcasts must unite once again to truly obliterate the threat which haunted their childhoods.
Directed by Andy Muschietti, who helmed the previous film,
It Chapter Two certainly feels like an authentic continuation of the
It story, inspired by the book written by horror legend Stephen King. The film follows both the 1989 and 2016 versions of the characters, with the time-lapse connected through a series of flashbacks. Muschietti generally manages to tie the separate periods together satisfactorily, although some cut-scenes serve only as largely unnecessary recaps.