It Review

Welcome to the creepy town of Derry, where the children are carved with knives by bullies I hope don't really exist in real life, people keep going missing and are written off as dead without much of an investigation, the parents like keeping their children locked up or look at them as preys, and where the clown Pennywise returns after every 27 years and feeds on children.

The little brother of Bill, George, gets lured into the sewers by Pennywise in the beginning of the movie, and Bill is found clinging onto the hope of George still being alive, but neglected by parents. Soon after that, during the summer break, Bill and his group find themselves in the trail of the missing children and Pennywise, who feeds on these children, not realizing what they're getting themselves into. However, Ben, who the gang saves from Hower and the bullies, has conveniently done a lot of research upon the topic: of children been disappearing for centuries in Derry. Beverly and Mike also join hands with the group and start off on a mission to shoo Pennywise away from their town.

Now , I apologetically haven't read the book by Stephen King the movie is based on, so I'm going to take the liberty to talk about the plot of the film independently. Some things are either way too convenient- like new little Ben taking just a few visits to the library to figure out what's wrong with this town, or way too bizarre- like the kids actually committing murders. The town does not seem to have normal people looking after the children or a stable government or police looking after their citizens. The kids fail fighting their inner demons while on the hunt for Pennywise- which certainly looks like the clown has a spell on the entire town, because there's not other explanation for people acting that disturbing. Also, the plot is a little hard to follow, taking time to understand what actually is happening, but the story is already moving on by then.

However, this isn't like the other horrors, and hence certainly worth a watch. All of the ever increasing gang of kids have acted pretty well, especially Beverly. And the movie does not deal with the usually supernatural stuff. It deals with the curse of a shape shifting creature, violent bullies, abusive parents and inner darkness. Although, I must say, all the good things about the movie seem like the work of Stephen King and not actually a movie made well.

Get ready to chant things like "We all float here", which don't make much sense until you give it a hard thought.