Very well executed

Blending excellent reporting and strong storytelling, this is a disturbing film truly stranger than fiction

Each character in this movie — down to the smallest one — is an individual rather than a type, prone to spontaneous changes of mood and sometimes amusing outbursts of pettiness or ill humor.

Just intense enough to provide a much-needed diversion, just lightweight enough to make you forget about it soon after it’s over. It’s not exactly “good,” per se, but it does what it sets out to do in terms of putting us on edge, which makes it … successful?

There are movies that just need to be watched in a proper time of your life, and the adaptation of Stephen King's notorious killer clown Pennywise is just one of those stories. Viewed as a ten year old, it caused some serious trauma and the clown-phobia through the years to come. Viewed in the late thirties, it just caused boredom and parody-like laughter spiced up with some really thin plots and lame acting. ''IT'' is the movie for the children and should be viewed as such, despite all of its gore

I get the creeps every time I see Tim Curry as the evil and twisted character of Pennywise. Being a circus clown only adds to the menace, what with the phobia surrounding the real life McCoy. Tim Curry is the one to watch: he may not have as much screen time as the other main characters but he makes all of his scenes count for something. I thoroughly enjoyed this television mini series of "Stephen King's IT" as it captures the very essence of the bestselling book. The various subplots had to be left out of the teleplay due to restricted broadcasting time but that's understandable. For those who don't know the plot, a group of kids in the late 1950s engage in a battle against a ghostly killer (Pennywise) who has been murdering some of the local kids. After believing they have defeated him, the child characters leave the town and go their own separate ways except for one. Many years later, Pennywise has returned to wreck more havoc in the same town. All of the main characters from before are re-united in order to finally defeat this evil clown once and for all. The suspense factor is cranked up a few notches as everyone is forced to confront their worst fears, courtesy of the clown killer. The fact that the villain is a supernatural one only adds to the dramatic effect. There is usually something quite unsettling about the whole story, where nothing is what it appears to be. Aside from Tim Curry, the rest of the main cast act pretty well. The flashback scenes don't clash with the contemporary ones and that is important in that it helps to maintain a smooth narrative. This is definitely one of the best adaptations of Stephen King's work in any medium.

LOL, this is sadly better than the one that just came out, mainly because the 2017 is just a lame-duck movie; you can check out my review for more details. Anyway, this was a made for television series, which is why it comes off as a three hour film. You have to remember that this was made back in the 80s/90s so it is going to be campy. However the muppet- spider thing look too adorable to be a freaking villain. But whatever, there is a good tale in there somewhere. Maybe I'll check out the book.

My girlfriend and I watched most of "It" the other evening while on vacation in Eureka Springs, Arkansas. I'd read and enjoyed the book not long after it came out and had watched the miniseries in 1990. My girlfriend had read the book but didn't recall it clearly. While I have no bones to pick with Tim Curry's interpretation of Pennywise, or with the other actors, I was somewhat puzzled with the sharing of the asthma inhaler prior to the children going underground after Pennywise. I realized that was the substitute for the 12-year-old girl realizing the only way the group of kids was going to get OUT of the sewers was by having sex. In the novel, there's nothing erotic about the sex, but many reviewers of the book complained about it, anyway. Stephen King said in his mind it was about bridging the gap between childhood and adulthood. I told my girlfriend, who has asthma, does that mean sharing your inhaler is the same as having sex? I shouldn't be so hard on a made-for-TV movie, but Hollywood manages to botch books in a variety of ways.