What a mess

Rating: 1/10 (6 September 2019)

The two aspects of this movie that do the most damage to it is the writers strange and nonsensical choices and the over-use of cringey cgi.
The story was already written for them. Sure some things could be changed to the adaptation into a movie, but the changing of key events and motives really showed a lack of interest in the source material. In my opinion after seeing It 2, the writers had no reverence to what made the book so effective. This story tarnishes the evil created in the novel and, even as a seperate story, fails to create anything close to enjoyable for the audience.
While that alone made me want to walk out time and time again, nothing bothered me more consistently than the constant, bad cgi. The creators think a goofy monster running and shaking its head is horror, and man are they wrong. The movie is ugly and devoid of any real suspense because of their insistence on showing instead of telling
I gave this a 2 because of a few good jokes, a single decent scene with Pennywise underneath some bleachers (before he becomes a cgi mouth), and my own silly want for this movie to be better than the 1 that I think it really does deserve.
I have to be honest, this movie made me angry. It tore apart my favorite story and my favorite characters, turning them into something that was just too hard to look at. I hated It 2. I would tell the director that. I would tell Steven King that. He approved this travesty, and I wish I went with my instinct and hadn't seen it at all.