Disappointing and boring

Rating: 3/10 (15 December 2019)

I have always been a big fan of the 80's mini series of IT. Yes it may seem cheesy and dated nowadays, but there was a great sense of eeriness and realism.
The part 1 remake was very good in my eyes! It was updated, fresh and focused a lot on the characters and their relationships. Fabulous! Maybe a tad too much cheap CGI, but not overkill.
Part 2, has just seemed to lose it's way. The opening was actually quite good...and dark which is what i was hoping for (i won't mention what happens in case you decide to watch it) But then as the film progressed i felt like i was watching a comedy? a comedy with cheap jump scares and absolutely no character focus or development. I genuinely did not care about any of the adult characters, at all. For some reason Muschietti seems to be more focused on (really bad) CGI jump scares than the authenticity or the development of the characters. At least in Tommy Lee Wallace's original starring Tim Curry, props and costumes were used rather than this cheap, non scary effects. When a film is filled with CGI it loses it's realism and i lose interest. It's like, they couldn't be bothered to make the effort to scare it's audience and a lack of effort really shows in this film.
I will usually see a film through to the end but i has to turn this off. I was so bored and after 2 hours of bad effects and boring characters, i didn't want to waste any more of my time.
Disappointed and gutted as there was mass potential to be scary.