And, while we can’t say with absolute certainty just yet what the final grade will be on IT Chapter Two, there is less than a one percent chance that it’s anything other than R.
Andres Muschietti’s IT may feature child actors in almost all of the main roles, but the film is hardly made for movie-goers of the stars’ age set.
Unlike the 1990 miniseries that had to be somewhat censored due to network television restrictions, the movie fully leans into the profanity and violence that is featured in the original novel, and the MPAA delivered it an R rating as a result.