It: Chapter Two Review: An Ambitious, Worthwhile Sequel
This is ambitious horror filmmaking, and in a lot of ways, I fully admire its ambitions. For me, the film’s sloppiness defines its overall quality.

"Brother promises, my love, only you are the first and last love for your brother. No other woman will ever change this love, in fact my feelings of love are already buried together with your body. Brother prays you are safe there." - THAQIF ASWAD. The first meeting between Nuha Saqeena and Thaqif Aswad ignites feelings of love in the young woman. While the young man still struggles to forget the painful memories of his late wife. Love for his deceased wife continues to bloom in his heart, making him reluctant to accept a new chapter of love. Because of the responsibility and the need for a mother's affection for the pair of twin lights left behind by his wife, Thaqif must seek a replacement for his wife for the sake of his precious children and not for his own love which has not yet opened to be replaced. "You may be able to stop yourself from falling in love with me but you cannot stop me from continuing to love you.
This is ambitious horror filmmaking, and in a lot of ways, I fully admire its ambitions. For me, the film’s sloppiness defines its overall quality.
“And I think to myself….what a wonderful world”. Louis Armstrong sang about this notion via his classic 1967 song, an ode to witnessing elements of our life that should be but some reminders of exactly what that concluding line of each verse indicates. Now we see our contemporary realities and, just being honest, it makes a sentiment like this seem SO overtly far away….perhaps even impossible….to accept or believe could be. It sounds harsh, but again, so much of what is occurring speaks not to beauty, but bedlam.
"Rodgers' & Hammerstein's Cinderella" wasn’t just a fairytale, it's a Black girl's fairytale. It was a fantasy world where the undeniable beauty of Black girls and Women was celebrated and beloved.
Tired of being cooped up in their cages, the critters escape the Australian zoo and try to find their way to the outback.
The whole family will enjoy these fantasy and science fiction stories about families and individuals connecting, finding true love, and discovering self.
This is not a story of oppression but a story of liberation.