Well done, visually pleasing mediocrity

Rating: 5/10 (10 September 2019)

2 movies and more than 5 hours in, I still don't know Pennywise powers (what can and can't he do), the extent of them (limits), what he wants, what he needs, etc. That's a big problem, because while the actors were mostly incredible (with the exception of Jessica Chastain that was fine, but doesn't really look like the same Beverly Sophia Lillis was playing), and the story that was told between the scary sequences was sweet and kind of great, the truth is these "IT" remakes focus so much on the scary sequences that there is just not time to develop every character's arc. Because there is not time, the movie moves at an insane pace with a very repetitive mold. Literally every single character starts the "development" in the same way and we see them deal with it one after the other. All this with flashbacks of every character that didn't add anything new to what the first movie showed.
Like I say, after boring and repetitive stretches, we end up in the third act where insanity follows (that's a book problem, but the movie didn't solve it) and things just happens and the movie ends. The arcs are all resolved, but again, in such mechanical way that every emotion is dried up by the time it appears on screen. They forced the kids on this movie because we loved them, but they could've used all those minutes to explain better Pennywise (if that's even possible) and develop a more coherent story and a better flow through the plot.