Because we’re dealing with fairly experienced adults instead of naïve children, the film at times feels more like a trip through an obnoxious carnival hall than journeys of personal growth.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jul 14, 2024

"It Chapter Two" is less scary; like early "Evil Dead" films and other 1980s horrors, its crazy creatures inspire surprised laughter more than terror.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Feb 14, 2024

Despite the problems of the ending, and being less successful than its predecessor, It: Chapter Two has several stimulating moments through its terror. Likewise, it must be emphasized that it maintains the essence of the literary text.

| Original Score: 6.5/10 | Jan 27, 2024

It Chapter Two fails to deliver a conclusion worthy of its epic runtime. Even with a phenomenal cast, it isn’t as funny, as scary, or even as captivating as its predecessor.

| Original Score: C | Jul 24, 2023

It Chapter Two is a good conclusion to the Losers Club story. It definitely has more Stephen King flair than the first film, but gives you everything you’d want from a supernatural horror.

| Original Score: B | Mar 8, 2023

Amid the repetitive jump scares lies a thoroughly scary and satisfying concluding chapter to Stephen King’s classic story.

| Oct 27, 2022

Too many things weigh the movie down and keep it from resonating like the first chapter. And too much time is squandered in the wrong places.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Aug 22, 2022

Despite the luxurious 170-minute runtime, Chapter Two feels hastily assembled, oddly brief and bloated at the same time, and beneath the text on which it was based.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Feb 23, 2022

Episode 48: Ready or Not / It Chapter Two / Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown

| Original Score: 36/100 | Oct 18, 2021

Muschietti returns to the director's chair to craft a sequel that goes bigger and bolder in every sense, while digging deep into It's mythology, and the dynamic between the adult Losers.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 10, 2021

At two hours and fifty minutes, It Chapter Two is unreasonably long. But it's hard to know what to take out and every section is loaded with memorable action moments.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jun 22, 2021

The filmmakers made the change in the story worse by indulging in every storytelling whim they wanted, whether it was warranted or not.

| Feb 18, 2021

Just don't expect to have anything to actually care about.

| Feb 8, 2021

As fun as it is to see the talented kids back on their bikes for certain scenes of It Chapter Two, the movie is an object lesson in the trickiness of portraying youthful friendships and then translating them into adult roles.

| Original Score: C+ | Feb 5, 2021

In this sequel Pennywise's red balloon has finally popped.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jan 31, 2021

Every time [It Chapter Two] has an interesting choice to make, it makes the wrong one

| Original Score: C | Jan 29, 2021

It's a bit episodic and bloated, but overall it works as a fitting conclusion to the story.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Dec 30, 2020

The protagonists must stop the creature quickly - but the filmmakers are in no rush to bring this second part to a close.

| Original Score: 5/10 | Dec 7, 2020

The movie's biggest mistake is its reliance on gore at the expense of narrative clarity. Far too little is said about Pennywise's background, origin or purpose. It's hinted at, but never fleshed out as to why he does what he does or for what reason.

| Original Score: 2.0/4.0 | Nov 21, 2020

It: Chapter Two isn't freaky enough, or funny enough, and even after spending five hours with this story, it doesn't make us care about the characters enough.

| Nov 1, 2020