Its Good

Rating: 8/10 (16 September 2017)

IT - Anybody who is expecting a proper horror film without knowing about the source material (which i myself haven't read but have enough research on it) is going to get disappointed. Because its basically a 'Coming Of The Age' film with a very scary clown in it. But let me be very specific. Horror elements were only secondary in the film , Drama is the primary thing . And because i knew this before seeing it , i liked it a lot.
Its a different kind of Horror film. Its a R rated film , with pretty much a lot of violence, with kids being in the lead and a Clown who is killing them.
Director Andy Muschietti was not into the usual JUMP SCARE thing (Thankfully). There were no false dream sequence , no door shutting scares , no unnecessary loud sound design. Its actually very realistic . I mean as realistic as a horror movie with a scary clown can get. The characters in the movie doesn't do foolish things to get killed. I mean yes there were some foolish step taken by the characters but come on , they were just 13 year old kid, we have to give them that much freedom.
You can understand how much i appreciate the things this movies doesn't do , because Horror Movies have become very stereotypical in last two decades , but thankfully Warner Bros has taken a different root. They are trying to be realistic and sensible about it. They were doing the same thing in the Conjuring series , and they did the same here.
As much as the movie is about 7 kids tackling with a Clown with crocodile teeth , the movie has so many different themes. Every kid has his own demon in real life to tackle. Somebody is tackling with the trauma of Lost brother , somebody is tackling a father who sexually abuse her , somebody want to get rid of over protective mom , somebody want to tackle his father's high expectation. Someone tackles with racism And lastly the whole group is tackling the Bully seniors.
Even after all these problems the kids have a great time hanging out with each other , if only for sometime. The Jokes came in regular intervals . And Andy Muschietti masterfully juggled the serious moments with comic ones , even mixing them and playing at the same time.
The cast is exceptional , so much that you will feel bad about them being replaced by senior actors in the sequel . But dame i would be not honest if i don't say it , Sophia Lillis as Beverly Marsh was my favorite. Yes i know she was the only girl in the club , and it was very typical of me to select her as my favorite. But i cant help it. She was awesome. And also there has been many anticipations for who will be the actors to play these kids in the sequel , i just want two actors for now - JESSICA CHASTAIN as Beverly & CHADWICK BOSEMAN (black panther) as Mike Hanlon.
There may be some complaint with the movie not having enough scary sequences. And that's true. Many people had the same problem with Conjuring 2 . For me IT is even less scarier. But that doesn't degrade the film. It just stop it from being a great film. And this reason shouldn't stop you from watching this film.
The film has been set in the State of MAINE , USA a state we see very less in Hollywood , and also the state where Stephen King (writer of IT , the BOOK) . And the movies has a very different and fresh look. Its not too dark , cloudy or again stereotypical like usual horror film. Its like any other film set in Summer Holidays.
For the END i would like to add , the movie totally earned its R rating in America and its A certificate in India. It had a lot of blood , curse words (the actual way of 13 year old boys talking) , and a little theme of sexual abuse. Hence the movie is not for kids. At least not at all for kids under 13. I am saying this because i had seen a lot of parents came to this movie with extremely small kids and i don't know at all how they are gonna explain those kids that why the clown is eating the hand of a boy.
I am obviously looking forward to the sequel. Which i think will answer more questions which were raised in this part and haven't been answered.
8.1/10
By ANuP APu KuMaR