Disappointed

Rating: 6/10 (19 September 2019)

For starters, as a gay man I felt very bothered and confused at the first scene. It didn't make sense to the rest of the story. If the gruesomely shot gay bashing was meant to spark some diabolical issue with the town, it might have made sense to add it. But essentially this group of homophobes murder a gay man then for some reason leave the boyfriend alive to I guess call the police on them? But when he finds Pennywise eating his boyfriend, I really scratched my head. Pennywise hunted children because of their fear. And did the boyfriend not report anything he saw to the police? Do these people not have phones or something?
It was just the first of many plot holes. Why did they all rush back if their memories had been erased? What was the point of grabbing all these artifacts and then burn them? Why did they even need to separate? So were all the flashbacks as kids before or after they stopped Pennywise? No time was spent on why they even left the town?