Never Expect An Honest Sequel To A Highly Popular Movie Franchise...

Rating: 3/10 (7 September 2019)

The Good:

The strong acting performance of Jessica Chastain
The acting and comedic timing of Bill Hader
The acting and comedic timing of Bill Skarsgård
The few interesting visuals

The Bad:

Unnecessarily convoluted story line (which adheres to tightly to the source material in many ways for it's own good, and veers too far from it in many others)
The sub-par acting of McAvoy, Mustafa, Ryan and Ransone.
The insertion of "woke" aspects to the story line for no good reason (A common problem with sequels to popular franchises these days)
The lack of genuine tension building. It's as if they were trying to see how many cheap scares could cram into a nearly 3 hour movie.
The matter-of-factness that permeates nearly every ridiculous conversation in this movie.

(SPOILER) The preposterousness of the ending. Pennywise deserved better. His withering-away to the Losers chants of "You're just a clown!" is both ludicrous (given what we know about Pennywise intellect, personality and power) and extremely unfair to the character. The concept of reducing Pennywise into a shivering blob of nerves by attacking his pride and belittling him is not an inherently bad idea, it was just executed so poorly and so cheaply.
The Ugly:

My neck and lower back after sitting through this 3 hour monstrosity. The fact is that this movie could've easily been whittled-down to around 2 hours and achieved the same or better results.