Starting wtf?? & Ending wtf??

Rating: 2/10 (31 January 2020)

Why does it start with a homophobic hate crime that has no connection to the rest of the storyline? It's completely absurd, and anyone who forgives the film the rest of its sins because they believe that the presentation of this incident tells an important and urgent moral to the world is simply wrong. It's bad storytelling, isn't part of the IT narrative, and doesn't need to be either. To cut a long story short (literally the last hour should have been condensed into 10 mins, terrible cartoonish CGI), they kill IT by teasing IT to death - and even the teasing is lame... "You're just a stupid clown!" Woeful writing and directing. Extra star because of good cast. Complete nonsense otherwise. Avoid. Watch the 90s classic instead.