It: Chapter Two

This return to Derry 27 years on plays similarly to 'chapter one', though more mystical - which is fine as far as it goes, but means that it feels (at over 2 1/2 hours to boot) like a bit of an exercise in hitting its marks rather than a true deepening of the first film's themes or characterisation. It's telling that the best bits generally involved the flashbacks to scenes from their childhoods, although to be fair, these were integrated in a way that did serve the two films' integrity as a single whole.