Sebastian Nicholis, Emily Gonzalez , Paige Norwood
Staff Writers and Features Editor
CONTAINS SPOILERS
It Chapter 2 was released on September 6th, and is the sequel to the earlier It film released in 2017. The movie opens with the return of “Pennywise the Dancing Clown” to the small town of Derry, Maine.
The “Losers Club,” a band of seven teen friends, made an oath after initially defeating It years ago to put an end to the terror. Now, twenty-seven years later, Pennywise once again threatens Derry’s inhabitants and the losers must reunite to defeat the evil shape shifting alien.
The movie begins with another murder in Derry, where Mike Hanlon has resided for the last 27 years. Mike is convinced It has returned and calls upon the losers, who reside in other parts of the country, to come back to Derry and follow through with their oath to stop it again, this time once and for all.
IT Chapter 2 delves much more into the terrifying clown’s origins than the previous movie. We see that Mike experiences a vision, after ingesting a root provided by a group of Native Americans, of Pennywise’s arrival on Earth millions of years before.
Mike enlightens Bill about his experience with the natives and even goes as far as to drugging him, letting him share the vision. Mike steals a tribal vase from the native group, planning to use it for the Ritual of Chüd along with the rest of the losers to vanquish the devilish clown.
The Ritual of Chüd consisted of gathering sentimental artifacts, placing them into the vase, burning them, then gathering around the vase to chant and to kill it. Spoiler alert: it doesn’t work, making the group’s efforts of garnering their artifacts useless.
The finale had a lot of people, me included, excited and curious about how the battle in Pennywise’s lair would be executed. We discover during the ritual that it’s true form is three orbiting amber lights, called “the deadlights,” which originate from another dimension known as the microverse.
Pennywise’s form in the final battle isn’t too far off from the form he assumes in the original 1990 film, and in the actual novel. Pennywise turns into a terrifying giant arachnid with the head of a clown.
After the group discovers that the Ritual of Chüd is futile, the group decides to bully the giant spider clown into a puddle, where he shrinks until he becomes the size of a small child. Finally, they rip out Pennywise’s heart and crush it, causing the deadlights and underground lair to disintegrate and the derelict house above to cave in on itself.
The scares weren’t bad in this film; there were a good amount of times where I did jump, and the building of the suspense was decent too. However, there were certain moments during the movie that the CGI monsters were too ridiculous and I couldn’t take them seriously; most notably the witch and the giant statue. Rather than being scary as intended, the “monsters” were more comical.
The plot of the movie wasn’t bad either; however, considering the climax of the movie, the events leading up seem like a waste of time not only for the characters, but for the audience as well.
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