Two hours of basically nothing.

Rating: 3/10 (21 January 2018)

I really wanted to like this movie, I heard a lot of great reviews about "It" and a lot of people seem to love this movie. After watching it today, I am really asking myself why.
Let's start with the good things, the child actors were amazing, they gave a great performance and played their characters very naturally.
The cinematography is gorgeous, it's a really good looking film.
But like, that's it.
I think my biggest problem is that there are just too many characters, six alone in the main group of friends. I did care about maybe one of them. There just wasn't enough time to give all of them a complex and interesting character arc and I can't feel empathy for any of them, I am just sitting her trying really hard to remember their namens. I personally think this movie would work better if there was a group of two or three people, so everyone would get more
screentime and I as a viewer would get the chance to care for them.
Besides the flat and boring characters, the plot it just _fine_. Normally I am easily scared and don't watch horror movies at all, but this is just a joke. I wasn't scared once. Pennywise has potential to be scary, but the film couldn't manage to build up suspense so the "scary" parts are just happening in front of my face and I don't know how I should react to them.
Another thing for me is the kind of forced relationship between Beverly and Bill/Ben, it's just pointless. Why is it there. I have no problem with a movie build around a group of young children, but WHY does there have to be some kind of love subplot? It's irritating and unnecessary. But maybe I just didn't get it, I don't know.
I just couldn't stop comparing this movie to Stranger Things. This isn't the movies fault or the casts fault, but there are just _so_ many similarities that I wasn't able to ignore it. I bet you could cut out a scene of this movie and put it in Stranger Things and nearly nobody would notice.
I don't wanna sound too harsh because clearly a lot of hard work and time went into this movie and it isn't the worst thing ever, but for me it was just mediocre at best.
If you liked Stranger Things a lot you might also like this, if you're searching for a scary horror film with an interesting plot you are wrong here.