Not as good as Chapter 1

Rating: 4/10 (24 September 2019)

Wrote the headline saying it wasn't as good as chapter 1 and went scurrying off to check how I scored the 2 movies. Don't need to change the headline as scored them 6 and 4. The major difference between the movies is that I cared much more for the characters in the 2017 movie. Consequently it was much more scary to watch than the 2019 movie where I cared little for whether the characters survived or not.
The movie is set 27 years after the original and don't think I'm giving anything away by saying Pennywise is back. The movie switches between the two timeline and it is impressive how little the original (young) characters have changed. Finn Wolfhard seems to age in each episode of Stranger things and yet he appears unaltered from the original IT here. Presumably they shot the movies back to back.
It's a bit long at 3 hours and it does tend to go for the shocks rather than suspense. If you are really into the genre then it's worth catching, but it isn't an exceptional movie.