You'll pay too. You'll pay too.

Rating: 5/10 (24 September 2017)

The marketing for this movie was brilliant. Following the big clown scare of 2016, and feeding on many people's fear of clowns and Stephen King fans (including those who were let down by the mini-series), this movie was bound to build a lot of hype. And surely it did. People couldn't wait to see Pennywise rise again, and to see how professional Bill Skarsgård's take on the title role would be.
What did I think? Well... It was pretty mediocre. Kinda bad actually. But let's get to what I liked about it at first:
1. The Losers Club - The kids had a lot of charm, and the scenes where they are just having fun like taking a dip or having a rock fight with the bullies were fun. Acting was very good. Richie constantly amused me, and the boy who played Bill was the best one out of the young cast.
2. The start of the movie - Good atmosphere, and builds up well to the shocking first encounter with Pennywise. Of course, like every damn scene in this movie the sound was really loud, but generally speaking it did spook me a little. Not bad.
3. Some of the directing - I'll admit, some scenes of It are well-shot, and has some nice-looking cinematography. When you see someone just standing in the dark, like when Bill sees Georgie in the cellar, looks pretty creepy! Shudderworthy at least.
Unfortunately, the small potential there is ruined by what was the movie trying to pander too much to a specific audience demographic: those looking for some good jumps. Nothing more, nothing less. The problem is, a lot of people actually *do* want more than this, believe it or not. At first the jumps had some sort of effect on me, but after a while when the movie wouldn't go 10 freaking minutes without another one... it got really, really annoying. Couple that with the CGI and you lose a lot of the tension. What about Pennywise though? Was he scary? No. No he was not. But it's not really Bill Skarsgård's fault. He was decent as Pennywise. At times his accent got a bit distracting, but he still did fine for what it gives. But he barely got any time to act, since every jumpscare with him was so heavily CGI'd that it didn't feel like you were watching someone acting. It was like watching a special effect. I also found him way too silly. Some of the things he did and the ways he popped up were so stupid that I found him to be quite a nuisance.
And something I thought was absurd was how everyone had the worst parents on earth. In the original movie some of them were bad, but in this one one terrible parent after another popped up. It turned into a joke. Beverly's dad, sure he was creepy, but whenever he showed up it felt like watching The Stepfather.
Not an utter disaster, but if you're looking for a horror movie with some brains, or something less corny than the mini-series (it's WAY more corny), you'll be disappointed. Or maybe not. Some people seem to like it.