Beverly Marsh: Hang tough, new kid on the block! Ben Hanscom: Please don't go girl! That's the name of another...

Rating: 4/10 (2 January 2018)

After a terrific opening scene of Pennywise in a street drain, friendly engaging with a young boy then gruesomely killing him. Had promise, however never coming close to eventuating.
Who's the target audience for this film? Certainly isn't me. The film would be too scary and gruesome for little kids nor do I think it's language appropriate, yet it's not for adults. Wouldn't really call it a film either, it's just a bunch of scenes splashed together. Once the kids started having hallucinations, which is early in the film, I kind of felt like turning it off, but I stuck it out. I hate that sort of stuff, it's just lazy writing. The kid actors were pretty decent even though I didn't really care about any of them. Jeremy Ray Taylor's character Ben was the best of the bunch. Please don't show me Beverly having moments with Ben and then being with Bill for no reason. Don't show me Eddie getting his cast signed by the girl bully in the drug store, then walking around with loser written on his cast without even showing Eddie's reaction to it in the moment. It's weak writing and avoiding. The film would of been better if Pennywise had more dialogue, like he had in the opening scene, than just hallucinations, jump scares and trickery.