Way over-hyped and not scary at all ... not a patch on the original

Rating: 1/10 (23 September 2017)

This film is getting WAY too much HYPE... in my opinion the original was WAY scarier...it was truly disturbing and still is to this day.... the child actors were better and most importantly Tim Curry was absolutely brilliantly disturbing as IT ... no offence to Bill Skarsgard but everything from his voice and make-up was completely NOT scary ... it would have been best if they could have gotten an older actor with a similar vibe to Tim Curry...whose performance will stay unmatched. Most of the child actors are OK but there is way too much CGI and cheap jump scares that are not actually all that scary...there is a total lack of psychological terror..which is what made the original so legendary... so my final conclusion: too much CGI, weak dialogue, too much reliance on cheap jump scares and an clown that is not a patch on the original mean that this film ...as much as its box office is ...will never truly test the time... if people keep hyping such bad films Hollywood will only continue its creative decline...the original TV movie was way better!