This movie takes place in the town of Derry, Maine. The story follows a group of young teenagers, as they begin the summer vacation. Bill Denbrough wants to explore the towns sewer system for his missing younger brother who vanished, during a rain storm, the previous year. His other friends are scared, but decide to help their friend. Meanwhile, Ben Hanscom, another youngster who has just moves to town and with no friends yet feels more at home in the local library. He starts looking into the history of his new town and finds that Derry has a very terrifying history. Ben has a run in with some local bullies, leaving the library, and winds up running into Bill and his friends. Enter Beverly Marsh, a loner girl who met Ben on the last day of school then meets the rest of the group and the gang is complete, for now. The kids start to realize all the strange things over the years are all connected and that the thing they have been seeing is somehow real. The last member of this misfit group of friends is Mike Hanlon, a young man who is home schooled and is bullied by the same kids that pick on the other kids. All of the kids are seeing the same thing, a clown, to them a very terrifying clown, and not know to anyone other them, Bills little brother saw it to. The children realize that fear is the key to this creatures power and start to find out what they must do to survive.
It is directed by Andy Muschietti and is the first chapter in this series. Bill Skarsgard plays Pennywise the clown and he played this character very well and to someone who is afraid of clowns, I guess it wold be scary, but when it comes to clowns I don't fear them or find them funny. 'It', as a movie, was good. I could almost call it great, if they had not billed it as a horror movie. This movie was a suspense movie with a horror element to it, with buckets of jump scares. There were a few really creepy scenes, but to me it had nothing to do with the clown. It felt more like a coming of age tale that just happened to have a horror story thrown in. The acting was suburb from everyone, yes even Bill Skarsgard did wonderful as Pennywise, but I just felt that something that is now being billed as "the highest grossing horror movie of all time" and "best horror movie of all time", I should have trouble walking back to my car after the movie let out. I want to give this movie high score but it's supposed to be a horror movie and to me it failed on that note. I give It 5 out of 10 stars. But as always, please see this if you are interested, I say that with all my reviews.
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