Was that a missing sequel of Harry Potter?

Rating: 6/10 (8 September 2019)

I guess the writers were making fun of themself through Bill's writing skills: "your book is really good but ending is terrible". This explains a lot about this movie.
After I read several divided reviews here, I realized that terrible cgi and cheap scares are waiting me. I totally agree with those views. But honestly it didn't bother me much because I really enjoyed the first 2/3 of the movie. It was nothing to do with horror yet it was great entertainment. I didn't even care much about inconsistencies like some characters from previous movie came back from dead (IT is all about sort of hallucinations after all, but dead guy was driving a car!?). Going into these details might make this movie unwatchable because Pennywise only goes after children. So why our older losers club crew is still in danger?
Anyway, then the last 1/3 came. Oh boy, what a mess. I totally forgot what I was watching before. Losers club against some cheap spell from out of this world. I felt like I was watching a harry potter sequel. Apparenly writers saw the potential of first movie and wanted build a deep philosophy around Pennywise for sequels. However it doesn't add up. Some moment you show old pictures of Pennywise from a century ago and a woman claims that she's his daughter. It definitely looks instresting and creepy, gives hope for a potential back story. Right after that they come up with a place, Pennywise's "den", which existed for millions of years according to Mike. And Pennywise's possible back story is being swapped with an ancient power idea.
Story was basically all over the place. The main reason is movie has identity issues. Tries to be comedy, horror, adventure, fantasy and something epic. Being as a huge 80s horror / comedy fan, I must say this one is far away from the genre.
In the end although several issues, it's a watchable movie and deserves a 6.5/10. Could have been even a 7.5 by avoiding terrible ending. By the way almost 3 hours runtime?? It was completely unnecessary. 2 hours more than enough!