Mel Valentin
5 min readSep 7, 2019

MOVIE REVIEW: ‘It Chapter Two’ Brings Pennywise Back To Ever-Diminishing Returns

Whatever you do, don’t take candy from stray clowns hanging out under sports bleachers.

“No good movie is too long and no bad movie is short enough.” — Roger Ebert

Two years ago, It, the big-screen adaptation of Stephen King’s 1986 classic horror novel, conquered the hearts and minds of horror and non-horror fans alike, breaking the box-office record for an R-rated horror film ($700 million worldwide, unadjusted for inflation) and reigniting a dormant fear of clowns…