'80s aesthetics bullseye

Rating: 6/10 (13 December 2017)

Even further than just being an '80s revival product - you know that thing that started out as nostalgia (Super 8, Expendables) and is now a full blown mania (Guardians of the Galaxy, Stranger Things, etc.) that rules box-office and, on occasion, pop music - "It" is the correct one. It has the structure, the aesthetics, the "each face corresponding to its mirror image from the era" (there is a homework for you truthful ones!), the meta-jokes ("It's bullshit, it's a Gazebo!").
It is it.
Watching it one gets a good idea of why King is the pop culture royalty he is -he digs into the collective fears of the western id AND the American superego locating the source of trauma - here racial tensions, disintegrated family, bullying and incest take the cake.
Muschietti is in complete control of his means, anything more tempered would miss the point of it going full retro, I can't see how the 40-ish generation (who liked it back then) won't be charmed by it.
Hell, enjoy it while it lasts. Directors/screenwriters/designers and DPs who grew up in the '80s are now having their field day feeling kids again, recreating the seeming simplicity of it all. I suppose this all '80s thing won't make it for more than 5-6 years from now.