IT Chapter One is Pennywise's Film, this is a film about the Losers

Rating: 9/10 (7 September 2019)

This is less of a horror film and more of a character driven film. This is about the characters and with a perfect cast featuring a stand out (and an arguably oscar-worthy performance by the brilliant Bill Hader) It Chapter Two provides an interesting and thoughtful story that suffers from some non-traditional pacing issues. This movie is long at 2 hours and 50 minutes, but there is a whole hour missing to this film and with IT being one of my favorite novels, the pacing issues aren't because it is slow or too quick, but rather it certainly feels like there is a lot missing (for example, without providing spoilers, a specific character has much more to do, but instead he is introduced and does a couple things much later on and there is a lot more to his arch that I assume was already filmed).
This isn't a scary movie and it isn't supposed to be a scary movie. This is a film about the characters and that is the film's biggest strength. Now we need the 4 hour cut of this film that director Andy Muschetti said existed.