It: Chapter Two (2019)

It: Chapter Two is a 2019 American horror film and a sequel to the first part of It, based on the book It by Stephen King. While the first part was about the children, this film is set 27 years later and features the adult versions, while the children return for flash-back sequences.

The film was released on Sep 6th, 2019, almost exactly two years after the release of the first film.

Plot[]

In 2016, Derry, Maine, Don Hagarty witnesses his boyfriend Adrian Mellon being murdered by Pennywise after a gang of homophobic youths beat them up and throw Adrian off a bridge while leaving the annual Derry carnival. Overhearing a police scanner and investigating the scene, Mike Hanlon discovers It has returned, and calls his childhood friends, Bill Denbrough, Ben Hanscom, Beverly Marsh, Richie Tozier, Eddie Kaspbrak, Dez Jones, and Stanley Uris, back to Derry to honor the promise they made in 1989 to kill It if it came back. While the others travel to Derry with only hazy memories and a sense of dread, Stan slashes his wrists in the bathtub soon after getting the call. The Losers meet for dinner at a Chinese restaurant, where Mike refreshes their memories while they are tormented by hallucinations and learn of Stan's death.

Richie and Eddie decide to leave until Beverly reveals that ever since she was exposed to It's Deadlights, she has been experiencing visions of their deaths should they fail or leave town without fulfilling their promise. Meanwhile, Henry Bowers, who survived being pushed into the well at the Neibolt house and was arrested for murdering his father in 1989, escapes from a mental institution with help from It. Mike takes Bill to his library abode and shows him, via a drug-induced vision, that the Shokopiwah Native American tribe's Ritual of Chüd can stop It for good.

Going to their old clubhouse and acquiring Stan's shower cap, Mike explains that the ritual requires seven personal items from their past to be sacrificed and advises the others to find their artifacts by retracing their steps following their falling out after first entering the Neibolt house. Beverly goes to her old home, now inhabited by an elderly woman named Mrs. Kersh, and finds Ben's love letter, still believing Bill wrote it, fleeing when Mrs. Kersh reveals herself to be It. Ben recalls another childhood encounter with Pennywise at high school before realizing his artifact is the yearbook page Beverly signed, which he kept in his wallet. Both Richie and Eddie recall their own personal encounters with It while retrieving their artifacts: a game token from an abandoned arcade, and an inhaler. Pennywise confronts Richie and taunts him about his sexuality, leading to him deciding to leave again and reconsidering again after recalling Stan's bar mitzvah, before menacing Eddie in the guise of the Leper, but flees when Eddie standing up to It causes the being to shrink in size.

Bill finds his childhood bicycle "Silver" and recovers the paper boat from the storm drain where Georgie was killed while meeting a boy named Dean, whom they saw earlier at the restaurant and lives at his old house and hears voices from the shower drain. Bill regroups with the others before running off to the carnival and into a funhouse after learning It is going after Dean, only to end up watching helplessly as Pennywise kills the boy before his eyes. Henry unsuccessfully attempts to murder Eddie before attacking Mike, but Richie intervenes and kills him. The Losers join a traumatized Bill and Dez at the Neibolt house, talking him out of facing It alone out of guilt.

The group descends into a cavern beneath the sewers, Mike providing a rock from the Losers' fight with the Bowers Gang as they perform the ritual in the remains of the meteor that brought It to Earth ages ago. The ritual appears to work in trapping the Deadlights in the sealing jar, but they escape after Pennywise emerges from the jar in a giant spider-like form. Pennywise pressures Mike into revealing that It killed those who previously performed the ritual and that Mike scratched that truth off the sealing jar. Mike assures the others they have a better chance of facing their fears, but they accuse Mike of lying to them. It attacks the Losers and places Bill, Ben, Dez, and Beverly in nightmarish scenarios, which they escape once Bill lets go of his guilt over Georgie's death, and Beverly realizes Ben wrote the love letter, while Richie, Dez and Eddie are forced to choose from three doors. Mike gets caught by Pennywise, but Richie manages to distract It, allowing Mike to escape, getting caught in It's Deadlights, and Eddie is fatally impaled after saving him. Eddie reveals how he made It feel small earlier, making the Losers realize they can do that by exploiting his requirement of a physical form and how they see it. They begin taunting Pennywise, showing that they are not afraid of any of It's forms and calling the creature "just a clown." Their mockeries cause Pennywise to surprisingly regress physically and mentally into a helpless infant. Mike proceeds to rip out Pennywise's heart so he and the Losers can crush it, finally killing It for good and avenging all of Pennywise's victims including Georgie. Eddie dies from his injuries, leaving Richie and Dez to be tramumatized and devasted for a while and the Losers are forced to leave them behind when It's death causes a cave-in that destroys the Neibolt house.

The remaining Losers comfort Richie and Dez as they mourn for Eddie, their ordeal's end signified by the scars on their hands disappearing. After the Losers part ways, Ben and Beverly become a couple. Richie returns to the kissing bridge where he had once carved his and Eddie's initials, Mike decides to move out of Derry and start a new life, and Bill begins writing his new story before receiving a call from Mike as he leaves Derry, learning that Stan sent them all posthumous letters. Stan reveals in his letter that he was too scared to deal with Pennywise again, and his suicide was actually a means to give his friends a fighting chance against It and asks the remaining Losers to live life to the fullest.

Cast[]

Bill Skarsgård as Pennywise, the Dancing Clown
James McAvoy as Bill Denbrough
- Jaeden Martell as Young Bill
Jessica Chastain as Beverly Marsh
- Sophia Lillis as Young Beverly
Jay Ryan as Ben Hanscom
- Jeremy Ray Taylor as Young Ben
Bill Hader as Richie Tozier
- Finn Wolfhard as Young Richie
Isaiah Mustafa as Mike Hanlon
- Chosen Jacobs as Young Mike
James Ransone as Eddie Kaspbrak
- Jack Dylan Grazer as Young Eddie
Andy Bean as Stanley Uris
- Wyatt Oleff as Young Stan
- Mädchen Amick as Dez Jones
- McKenna Grace as Young Dez
Javier Botet as The Leper / The Witch
Teach Grant as Henry Bowers
Nicholas Hamilton as Young Henry Bowers
Jess Weixler as Audra Phillips
Will Beinbrink as Tom Rogan
Jackson Robert Scott as Georgie Denbrough
Xavier Dolan as Adrian Mellon
Jake Weary as John "Webby" Garton
Luke Roessler as Dean
Ryan Kiera Armstrong as Victoria Fuller
Stephen King as a pawn shop owner.

Trivia[]

Bill Skarsgård has stated that he had more fun on set during this film because he was actually able to talk to and hang out with his adult co-stars. Skarsgård had minimal contact with his child co-stars in Chapter One so that they would be more genuinely scared of Pennywise once they saw him.
It: Chapter Two is rumored to include a scene that was cut from the first film. The scene is set back in the 1600's and has Pennywise devour a human baby. This scene was cut from the film because it was extremely dark and disturbing.