A fun movie, but nothing special

Rating: 6/10 (7 September 2017)

(I'll be playing fast and loose with spoilers here)
I generally enjoyed this movie but there were a whole lot of really odd things that irked me. Characters in this movie generally make good decisions, something you don't often see in horror movies, so it felt really odd when one character was assaulted with a knife and they don't take him to hospital or even tell the police; they just steal some cotton balls and... patch him up? Another point, I know in American movies the bullies are always cartoonishly evil but come on, they carve letters into some kids chest with a switchblade. That's an actual crime. But heck, perhaps it's just set in the most anomalously amoral town in the world, because the adults are all evil too. From the rapist dad, to the insulting librarian, to the 50-somthing pharmacist flirting with a 15 year old. I wouldn't mind but the movie explains none of this, it spends the whole time talking about something that happened long ago, and alluding to a curse and goes nowhere because (surprise surprise) this is IT: Chapter One, of however many chapters will stop making money i guess.
With all this said, i didn't actually hate the movie. As child actors go, they got some good ones (the main 2 or 3 especially); and the creature is fantastic. Some of the vfx were a bit unconvincing but most of the effects were great, i loved pennywise who was brilliantly acted and choreographed, and the score was really brilliant.
Unfortunately i didn't find it scary; mostly relying on cheap jumpstartles. There was a scene or 2 that were scary (and one that was actually very scary to me at least) but mostly the scares were pretty telegraphed. I recommend a watch, but only really for the villain. 6/10