Meh

Rating: 5/10 (16 February 2018)

"Stranger Things" has done a better job with 1980's suspense. Originally, the story was set in the 1950's, now it's updated, and amazingly bland and free of actual horror or surprises. It's almost like the writers and director went to some standard book of what scary movies had in the '80's, and just copied what they saw. EVERYTHING was predictable and boring.
Also, the lead female character, Beverly Marsh? Nope, I could of bought her as a 17 year old, not a young and inexperienced 13 -14 year old girl. Her character was ruined. Where's the abusive dad? Why write a scene showing her almost (ick) flirting with a pharmacist? She looked WAY too old to be hanging out with the pre-teen dudes. I'm hoping I see all the child leads in better roles, but Finn Wolfhard always has the much better "Stranger Things" to go back to.
This had to be one of the worst adaptations of a Stephen King story I've seen in a while.