I totally get if you love it!

Rating: 5/10 (23 September 2018)

But it just didn't work for me. The story is well told, I think. All the arcs "made sense" (more or less). And the cast is stellar. So if you loved it (as my cousin did when we watched in the theater), I totally get it.
Having said that. There is just too much that is weak.
1-Pennywise: One of the few great things about the 90's IT, was that Curry made for a freaking scary clown. An adult, going totally insane and terrifyng kids when he should be the one taking care of them. That's scary. In this case, it looked more like punk bored 20 something trying to prank kids for a youtube chanel. Even if Bill Skarsgård was good, he was just too young.
2-Horror scenes: At very best 5 good scares (including jumpscares). The use of horror was super weak. We see the clown too much and too often. The first scenes with him should've been teases, but nope, from the start he goes full on "scary" and then we get 1h 20m of.... pretty much the same. (On the flipside: the "human" scary scenes were all perfect. Which makes the lack of them really upsetting).
3-Updated kids... until we need the old versions: They let the kids swear and make dark jokes to make them look more realistic. And that was awesome. But then, when they needed to use melodramatic speeches (totally dated, by the way), the kids turned back to the old and dated versions. You either update the kids, or you let them fake enough to make those scenes less jarring and eyes rolling.
4-Pennywise's powers and needs: It would probably be explained later. But I just coudn't escape the fact that Pennywise made dumb things that made no sense and it wasn't explained. We don't know ANYTHING. Not even hints. We know he wants them with fear because he says so. But other than that, we don't why he makes the other kids float (Beverly because she wasn't scare enough for him to eat her. But then why the others? All of those kids weren't scare neither? Then, he SUCKS at scaring kids. And by the way, our hero kids were super scared through out the movie. Why he didn't eat them then?). A mess.
In the end:
-It didn't even have good fun jumpscares.
-The clown looked too young and sounded idiotic not threatening.
-Too much clown opening his spidey mouth for nothing.
-Broken updated versions of kids with super old cliché speeches.
-Pennywise powers all over the place, making it incomprehensible.