10 Movies Nobody Wants To Admit Suck

The first chapter of Andy Muschietti's adaptation of Stephen King's legendary horror tome It was such a pleasant surprise, fans approached the sequel with fair confidence that Muschietti would knock it out of the park.

With a note-perfect cast portraying the adult Losers Club - including Jessica Chastain, James McAvoy, Bill Hader, and James Ransone - it seemed like all the necessary ingredients were there for Muschietti to finish the job in affecting style. But It Chapter Two feels less a satisfying conclusion to the story, more a vocal warning about the dangers of letting successful filmmakers run amok. 

With a budget almost double that of Chapter One, the sequel is a bloated 169-minute mishmash of excessively CGI-driven set-pieces that largely feel like warmed-over rehashes of what worked so well the first time.

Sure, the cast commits gamely to the material, but the film's tedious fetch quest plot - which is oddly reminiscent of Avengers: Endgame, released a few months prior - does them no favours at all. Chapter One was such a mesmerising adaptation that nobody wanted to believe that Muschietti fumbled the ball for the second half, even though he categorically did.