Some cheesy parts but overall still a good movie

Rating: 7/10 (20 September 2019)

It didn't live up to the impossibly high standard they set with the first, but that doesn't mean it's a bad movie.
That being said though, this movie was more funny than scary. The scenes with pennywise hunting children were kind of played off as jokes instead of being very tense like in the first film. Pennywise was a borderline comic relief character in this one. Also the parts that are supposed to be scary come across as silly because they have so many huge CGI monsters. This movie also resorts to cheap jumpscares for horror and the atmosphere isn't as nuanced as the first.
However, the acting is fantastic and the casting is perfect. All the adults look and act exactly like their younger counterparts, to the point where I forgot they weren't the same people. The characters are definitely the main thing driving this movie. All the scenes with them together are just fantastic. The weakest parts of the movie were the ones where they split up.
This movie's also way more accurate to the book than the original tv movie and it selves into more of the lore a little bit.
Sometimes this movie reminded me of Evil Dead 2, which can be a good thing or a bad thing for different people