The CGI was bad, the character development was worse

Rating: 3/10 (15 September 2019)

This was a long movie. A really long movie. Despite being such a long movie, every bit of character development occurred in the opening scenes. Not only that, but the character development that did occur was literally just the director/author taking a couple minutes each to tell the audience that yes, in fact, these characters as adults have lives consistent with their characters as children. Girl with abusive dad has abusive husband. Funny boy is a comedian. Hypochondriac boy does risk assessment. Fat boy is a now a certified HUNK but we don't even get the slightest back story on that.
Once this has all been established (as forcefully and mind-numbingly dull as possible), the characters no longer matter at all except for one-liners regarding their childhood traits. Sure, there are several scenes where the characters perform CGI-infested quests to retrieve "artifacts" related to their battle with It from childhood but, again, anything within these scenes that requires it to be that specific character is always done via reference than revelation.
Bev has had dreams about how all the characters die but this is somehow pushed aside and forgotten as soon as its brought up (as is any aspect of her character relating to the abusive dad to abusive husband thing).
If the movie was half the length it actually is, this would be somewhat forgivable but it isn't.
This brings me to my problems with the plot. Pennywise is the cheapest villain in horror film history. He is a clown that murders kids! This is the sort of nightmare stuff that should write itself. Instead of watching a killer clown meticulously plan out murders or stalk and seduce his victims (OR EVER DO A SINGLE CLOWN THING!) we get this way over-complicated story of him being some thousands year old spirit or god knows whatever that I guarantee no one paid attention to because its so boring. Its a movie about a clown that kills kids! We don't need the Native American spirituality backstory! What is wrong with you, Stephen King? I get it, I'm not as smart as you!
We get one scene of the clown killing the little girl, but it is entirely predictable and more or less a repeat of the scene with the little brother from the first movie. Neither painful nor scary to watch.