A few well-crafted scenes. The rest was throwaway.

Rating: 4/10 (7 October 2019)

Again, another horror movie suffers from showing too much of the monster. Pennywise is at his most effective when he's in the shadows, offering a scary contrast with his pale skin.
Sadly, when he's out in the open he just looks silly. There were a few scenes that were actually kind of scary. But the rest just felt like missed opportunities.
I didn't really care about the adult versions of the characters either. The first film did a better job at getting me invested in the characters. Their fear also felt much more palpable. This film was a strange mixture of f-bombs, badly-timed jokes, and random outbursts of screaming that hardly felt real.
I will admit though, there were a few sequences near the end of the movie that were memorable when I wasn't distracted by the disorganized directing.
Best scene = the bleacher scene though, bar none.