Someone broke their time machine

Rating: 1/10 (16 September 2018)

The original movie/story was written for the time period when my parents were kids... this particular remake was written for a time period that did not exist... both with references from the original time frame like paper boats made waterproof with ceiling wax and New Kids on the Block which certainly would not have had a fanbase from the outsiders from when I was a kid. Tragic departures from the original story like the bathroom cleaning scene - which only had spooky significance in the book and original film in so much that Beverly had to attempt to clean it several times on her own where the mess would nearly instantly resurface... where as when she got her friends to help the mess did not come back again. The effects are certainly updated but that is the only thing this movie has going for it and wasn't really worth the time.Leaving out the references to things like the mummy and the werewolf didn't do this story any favors. I think if you want to reboot a period piece like this you should really go all out, not attempt to 90s everything and hope it still works, because it really doesn't. character development for the kids was severely truncated so when major scenes came about later it was hard to sympathise with them Seems like there was a whole lot of the story the rewriters didn't think was that important, they weren't right.