By Neil Prestegui // Photography Editor
“IT’S” back! “IT Chapter Two” hit theaters on Friday, September 6. The Losers Club comes back to Derry, Maine, after 27 years to fulfill their promise they made as kids to kill the evil entity known as Pennywise, The Dancing Clown or “IT.” As the former childhood friends had grown up and moved on with their lives, they have long forgotten about the events that occurred before (“IT: chapter one in 2017”). It’s up to the Loser that stayed behind all these years to gather everyone up for their final showdown with The Dancing Clown Pennywise.
Mike Hanlon [Isaish Mustafa] stayed in Derry all these years waiting for Pennywise to wake up from his 27 year sleep cycle, as he still remembers all the dreadful events that happened before.
When Pennywise finally awakens, Mike calls the rest of the Losers to finally slaughter the “Dancing Clown”. The film follows in tradition with an R rating. However, with adult casts the film definitely takes a bigger advantage of its R rating than the first movie, as it includes some extremely disturbing scenes and real life issues, with a run-time of 3 hours that covers several material and highlights certain subtextual issues from the 1986 book that not even the 1990 mini-series could cover.
The big screen adaptation focuses on each of the characters making the viewers feel as if they’ve known the characters their whole life. Since the spectators get to see what these characters think and go through. The film makes people realize that these characters aren’t just potential victims in a movie, they’re people with lives, issues, and loved ones.
The film even seems to have a dream cast with similarities between the first cast and second cast being uncanny, the filmmakers have even pat themselves on the back with their casting to the point where the movie poster highlight the kids and adult actors similarities.
Moreover, Bill Denbrough [James McAvoy] the stuttering leader of the losers returns hoping to finally put an end to the guilt he’s carried all these years for not being there when his brother needed him the most, along with the notorious “TrashMouth” Ritchie Tozier [Bill Hader] who has a secret he’d like to keep under wraps, Mama’s boy Eddie Kaspbrak [James Ransone], New kid on the block Ben Hanscom [Jay Ryan],Female Lead Beverley Marsh [Jessica Chastain], and Librarian Mike Hanlon [Isaiah Mustafa] all return to Derry to end and put down the killer clown Pennywise [Bill Skarsgård] once and for all.
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