Not Worth the Money

Rating: 5/10 (8 September 2017)

As someone who had high hopes for this movie, I can honestly say I am monumentally disappointed. In an attempt to make a more visually stimulating remake of the classic It, this movie ending up looking more like a Salvador Dali painting, if Dali were extremely tacky. The fear factor was taken out and replaced with jump scares and unnecessary gore. And I LOVE gore. Bill Skarsgard's Pennywise seemed more like a mentally incapacitated pedophile than an embodiment of fear. The only salvageable parts of this movie were due to the outstanding child actors and Finn Wolfhard's admittedly immature, yet hilarious wise cracks. I had hoped that because of this the relationship between the 7 friends would be properly represented, however, the introduction of certain characters and their back stories were extremely rushed or completely skipped over despite the fact that this movie was about 2.5 hours long and focused only on the childhood of the It characters. The only new thing introduced to this movie, that was actually worth watching was the scene with Bill and Georgie near the end. It might be a fun movie to watch with your friends and laugh at, but don't pay money to watch it.