Well-made adaptation, a fun horror film with good character development.

Rating: 8/10 (12 September 2017)

It is a really good adaption of the book (minus the orgy thing of course). However, what a lot of reviewers seems to misunderstand, is that this isn't a horror movie as we've come to know them in recent years. It's not Saw or Insidious. It's not designed to keep you afraid and disturbed for the entire run time. This is a monster movie...
It's a coming-of-age thriller with supernatural elements, like Goonies and Poltergeist combined. The purpose of the scares isn't to scare you, but to cater to the fears of each individual kid in the losers club. I know people complain that it's not scary, Babadook wasn't scary and had a good story, also It follows, etc
With that being said, there are some genuinely unnerving scenes in the movie, but it has it's focus on the characters themselves, where the focus should be, In similarity to The Babadook, where the focus is on the distressed mother and her troubled son.
As for Pennywise, it's hard to compare Curry and Skarsgaard, as they depict two wildly different variants of the infamous clown. Curry was the creepy child molester (keep in mind he based it on a serial killer) type and Skarsgaard is just plain frightening.
The kids are easily the part in this movie they show drama, comedy, and some heart warming moments. Capturing a similar style to classic 80s adventure that we hold dear, that being this isn't a stranger things rip off, Stranger Things came in 2016, the It book came in 1986...
The movie has great cinematography and a good flow line of time, as well as great dialogue and acting. The one thing that may be slightly annoying for some, is that some of the scene to scene scares, doesn't always seem to stick with the kids.