Couldn't wait for IT to end!

Rating: 4/10 (5 September 2019)

Hugely disappointing! I loved the first movie a lot and was so exited to see this, but half way through we were close to walking out; and a few moments later another group did. I'm sure all those giving it high scores must be huge Stephen King fans that can't ever admit to disliking one of his adaptions.
What I hated the most was how loud and obnoxious some of the adult characters were. I get that they are trying to bring out the characters their young actors portrayed in the first movie but in the real world children grow up and mature. Children acting like children can be endearing, adults acting like loud annoying children is, well, annoying. The characters did become more tolerable in the second half of the movie as their personalities begun to mellow a little.
Watching the second half was more like a seeing rehash of the first movie. I felt like I was sitting through it all again when watching the house and some of the cave scenes. I'm not sure how the book went, so perhaps they were trying to keep it true to the book, but I felt like they needed to change the setting for the second half of the movie so it didn't feel like a repeat.
There was lots of other things that bugged me about this movie, don't get me started on how a guy can be stabbed deep with a blade to the cheek and moments later be patched up and talking like nothing has happened. Not to mention how he survives so long having been impaled by a giant claw and is still able to crack a joke. The flash back scenes with the kids were probably the only shining moments of the film, but even some of those fell a little flat for me. It's rare I score a movie under 5 or 6, unless I really disliked it. Sadly this is one of those movies.
I would like to note, there were definitely some very confronting scenes in the movie where they didn't hold back. The bashing of the gay men at the beginning was extremely brutal, I mean you can hear the bones in his face smash as he gets repeatedly punched and kicked. The domestic violence scene where a women gets punched by her partner was also confronting, though makeup did extremely well with hiding any bruising to her face *roll eyes* There is also a scene that strongly suggested that child molestation was about to take place. All the above scenes is enough reason to not let young children or even young teenage kids see this movie. However that didn't stop some parents from taking their 12-15 year olds to see it at my local cinema.