Awful, not even close to the first movie

Rating: 2/10 (5 September 2019)

I liked the first movie, it was entertaining, well done and had some good jump scares. This second movie, however, is awful. I had to come in here and write my review after the movie to bring some justice-- don't trust the rating! The first movie is far, far better than this. As for the movie, it begins nicely, but after the first monsters in CGI appear it just goes downhill-- I honestly couldn't believe how ridiculous and bad the CGI was, seriously. It didn't seem to match the movie so far and sure as hell didn't blend with the live action on screen. It was forgivable though, especially with the joke soon afterwards.
Unfortunately, the movie does not get better. The majority of it is spent in scenes that are "individual to each character", which I will not go into detail to avoid spoilers. But they are boring, not scary and do not add to the plot. Hey, I thought we were going to see a group effort to get rid of Pennywise, right? Like in the first movie! But no, I guess the writers fell short and had to make up a stupid excuse to make movie with these stupid individual scenes. After several of those, it seemed like it was finally moving forward, but it just went on and on and on... I did my best effort to stay as much as I could because I wanted to see the conclusion, but after 2 hours of this nonsense, geez... what a test of patience! It has been a long time since I've walked out of a theater during a movie, but I couldn't stay for the end of this one. It came to a point where my patience was stretched enough to the point of no return. I walked out of the theater with a little over 2 hours in the movie. Avoid this one on the theater, see it later at home if you want, so you can skip, fast forward and go past the b/s.