It can be a cheesy thing when a novel is split
up and spread out over a handful of films, but
Stephen King’s “It” is not one of those books.
Andy Muschietti’s first crack at King’s 1,100-page
doorstop, 2017’s “It,” dealt with the first half: the
Losers Club, a band of “Stranger Things”-like
adolescent outcasts, battling the shape-shifting
demon clown Pennywise (a wonderfully gangly
Bill Skarsgard) in the Maine town of Derry. “It
Chapter Two” takes up the book’s second half
when those kids, now grown, are called back 27
years later to Derry after Pennywise returns.