How has this got a 7.1

Rating: 1/10 (11 September 2019)

I enjoyed the first It as the movie had a certain nostalgic charm and a decent mixture of comedy and scares but this movie is a trainwreck from start to finish. The story is incredibly incoherent and the usually fantastic James McAvoy's constant overacting is absolutely cringeworthy. The rest of the cast are equally poor and the script apart from the occasional one liner from Bill Hader is dreadful. The CGI 10 foot naked granny was an abomination and not in a good way. The hastily put together flash back scenes (clearly shot after the original movie) with clear CGI on the kids who have now of course aged, was rubbery and tough to look at. The long drawn out ending was completely over the top and self serving. I mean we have only known these characters from one movie but the last 20 minutes was rolled out as if we had a huge emotional development toward each one of them. Every "scare" was more ridiculous than the last. The scene in the Chinese restaurant at the start with the half baby spider coming out of the fortune cooking was embarrassing. Within 10 minutes you can tell how awful this movie is going to be and it doesn't get any better. If they somehow pull a 3rd movie out of this, which I assume will be based 54 years ago, then they need to change each and every member of the crew that worked on this utter shambles of a film. The one mark I have given is A. because I can't score it a zero and B. For the occasional chuckle at a Bill Hader joke.