Complete Lack of Subtlety

Rating: 5/10 (3 February 2020)

I wasn't one of the people who absolutely loved chapter 1. I thought some parts were genuinely creepy while others were just too over-the-top with some mediocre CGI to be able to take seriously. But the parts that worked, really worked. It seems that they decided to completely remove all the things that made chapter 1 decent and expand on all the things that didn't work with it. There is no subtlety in this film. It's all over-the-top, giant, loud, bad CGI monsters running at the characters while screaming. It's not scary. The actors did fine with what they were given and from a technical standpoint, other than some not-so-great CGI, it was well-made. But the TV mini-series with Tim Curry had more parts that were genuinely scary than this film and its predecessor did. Overall, just disappointing.