There's more deliciously creepy anticipation in "Chapter Two," but once again, Muschietti buttresses up the spook factor with too many computer-generated monsters that inevitably become banal. Muschietti and Dauberman are loyal to the source, but Muschietti has a tendency to overly hedge his bets, scare-wise it's almost as if he doesn't trust that Pennywise is scary enough (he definitely is). But in the process, it becomes clear the horrors of the real world are so much more horrifying than any giant murderous statues, puking ghouls or elderly wraiths. It's all incredibly Jungian, dredging up their shadows in order to face them. But Skarsgard is mesmerizing in his own way, delivering a remarkably unhinged performance, childlike and feral, drool dripping from his bloody, rabbity grin.Īfter a crackling first act, the film loses the plot during a bloated second hour, where each Loser engages in a perfunctory walk down memory lane to become reacquainted with their childhood trauma so they can fully access it when they confront Pennywise at the end. His Pennywise, played with aplomb by Bill Skarsgard, doesn't have Curry's silly yet arch elegance. Muschietti fundamentally understands what makes Pennywise so scary and so funny, and he strikes a marvelous balance of tone, earning laugh-out-loud and terrifying moments in equal measure. Jay Ryan is the glowed-up Ben (Jeremy Ray Taylor), and Isaiah Mustafa brings a reverent solemnity to the role of Mike (Chosen Jacobs), the keeper of the traumatic memories who summons his friends back to Derry after a brutal homophobic hate crime results in Pennywise's return, invoking the blood oath they made as kids to kill the clown. James McAvoy takes on the role of Losers Club leader Bill, originally played by Jaeden Lieberher, while Jessica Chastain, reuniting with her "Mama" director Muschietti, embodies the essence of young Beverly (Sophia Lillis).
Bill Hader and James Ransone not only look eerily like their younger counterparts (Finn Wolfhard and Jack Dylan Grazer), but they perfectly capture the tics and mannerisms of Richie and Eddie too, proving to be the runaway breakout stars of the film. What "It Chapter Two" has going for it is a shockingly excellent cast of adult Losers (casting by Rich Delia) that picks up the mantle where their younger selves left off 27 years ago. It's a lot, but in the end, does all this hullabaloo even add up to anything? There's more spooks, spider-clowns and splattering fluids, and even 34 more minutes of terrifying adventures with Pennywise the Dancing Clown. Now add the fan factor: the nostalgic original fans, and the rabid new generation of fans the circus-sized 2017 hit garnered.įor Muschietti and writer Gary Dauberman, the way to solve the problem seems to be a "more is more" approach, especially when tackling the wild, woolly and just plain weird source material. Following up "It," the first installment in the evil clown saga, director Andy Muschietti has to balance loyalty to Stephen King's crazy, 1,138-page tome, as well as to the kooky 1990 made-for-TV miniseries starring Tim Curry. (This story has not been edited by Devdiscourse staff and is auto-generated from a syndicated feed.Pulling off "It Chapter Two" is an almost impossibly tall order.
"It: Chapter Two", featuring an ensemble cast of James McAvoy, Jessica Chastain, Bill Hader, Isaiah Mustafa, Jay Ryan, James Ransone, Andy Bean and Bill Skarsgard, releases in September this year. and cranked up, in some cases," Muschietti said.
"I think that everything that people love from the first one, like the humour and the emotions and the horror, will all be there.
On the first one, I was struggling to get a Technocrane (a massive telescopic crane for a camera) on certain days. In an interview with Entertainment Weekly, the 45-year-old director said the success of the first film made him confident about his decisions during the production on the sequel. PTI | Los Angeles | Updated: 13-07-2019 12:04 IST | Created: 13-07-2019 12:04 ISTĭirector Andy Muschietti says it was easy for him to make "It: Chapter Two" than 2017's part one.
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