Very conflicted

Rating: 4/10 (4 November 2017)

I was wholeheartedly expecting to love this movie. I expected this adaption to live up to the original, and incorporate the technology we have today to really make this story come to life. Instead I continuously asked myself if what I just saw on screen legitimately happened. The plot was all over the place. Rather than a clown simply terrorizing a town, it was also a coming of age film. A group of friends are experiencing their summer, while Pennywise the clown is periodically flying around town. I really did not understand how it was supposed to be a scary movie when the clown could also be seen as a comic- dancing and fooling around, in scenes that held so much potential to scare viewers. I felt I had watched another movie than the one all my friends had praised. On the contrary, I did think the kids were genius. They were genuinely funny, I just thought their personalities didn't fit with where I had interpreted this film to go.