IT SUCKS!!

Rating: 1/10 (29 July 2018)

Dont believe the hype.
This movie is not good. BillSkarsgård pales to Tim Curry as Pennywise.
Instead of psychological horror this movie does what all modern "horrormovies" does. It relies on jumpscares and way too much cgi.
Skarsgårds performance is ruined by cgi that allows the character to move around in physically impossible ways. Every time he appears its very predictable. And whenever Pennywise preys on the kids fears appearing as something else, its "scarier" than Pennywise himself. And that is not a good thing. Pennywise himself is suppose to be terrifying without cgi and without appearing as some other monster.
The one monster that does work is the woman with the flute in the painting. That is good and clever horror.
A movie with the flutelady as the main monster might have worked.
The kids are decent although forgettable. The kids in thetv mini series were much, much better. Several of the kids annoyed me. Lkethe older brother to the kid was eaten by Pennywiseand the redhaired girl. The only good kid was the main bully. But he was so over the top mean, that it became cliche.
Also this movie is a ripoff of Stranger Things, the Netflix series that is much more scary with better acting. It even has Finn Wolfhard from Stranger Things in it.
Some might enjoy this movie for being R rated, which means lots of f-bombs and lots of blood. I usually enjoy that too. But if the story and the acting just dont work, then the rating is not important.
The mini series were of course cencored for tv, but it was still psychologically scary. Now if you can make something scary with a small budget and cencorship, then youre good. Tommy Lee Wallace, director of the mini series was that good.
Andy Muschietti has all the money and all the toys but not the skills to bring the horror to the big screen.

IT sucks, get one star, becauseof the flutelady.
Do not waste your timne on this crap.