The film that grabs defeat from the jaws of victory

Rating: 7/10 (21 October 2019)

This should have been an amazing movie...
It had a great cast with genuinely interesting characters, and although it was cheesy at parts, to me that's expected from IT.
But somehow this film messed up big time.
The film derails from it's plot so often and it's so unnecessary, more than an hour is just completely reliant on flashbacks, which is supposed to get a nostalgic reaction from us, but I mean this isn't a film released in the 80's with a huge cult following, meaning that nobody got nostalgia from it because we literally saw those kids 2 years ago in the film.
And you know what, i'm not even gonna go into the CGI for the kids, just know, yes it's distracting, and no it doesn't get better.
And every single friggin' flashback was so formulaic
adult goes to a place and remembers a certain event that took place there as a kid, this event seems harmless to begin with but then he encounters Pennywise, it then flashes back to his present self and encounters Pennywise again.
Now i'd be fine with this but this happens with every single main character apart from Mike and each of these sequences are like 15 minutes long and they're all exactly the same
The story doesn't progress further than:
It's back
go to Derry
Freak out and have a 15 minute dilemma on whether they should just leave
Decide to stay and retrieve tokens
Go kill IT
It's literally just that and it's ridiculous. I mean if they had just focused on the characters as adults they would have gotten more done, it would've been a better movie but for some reason making the kids CGI and showing 15 minute formulaic flashbacks that don't do anything for the film that a 2 minute conversation couldn't accomplish is just really damaging for this movie considering that the scenes with the adults were amazing and there was a real connection and comradery between them, which is why it's so disappointing that this film is just made up of flashbacks and very little elements of the adults despite the adults being the stand out part of the whole bloody movie.
it had the recipe for greatness, but instead of going through with the sequel we wanted, they were reliant on flashbacks. That sucks.

(Also, i'm not going to spoil anything, but for those who have seen it, I felt that the ending for It chapter 2 would've been more fitting for It chapter 1 and vice versa, it seems like they messed up last second on their storyboards and got their endings muddled up)