Defeated by members of the Losers' Club, the evil clown Pennywise returns 27 years later to terrorize the town of Derry, Maine, once again. Now adults, the childhood friends have long since gone their separate ways. But when people start disappearing, Mike Hanlon calls the others home for one final stand. Damaged by scars from the past, the united Losers must conquer their deepest fears to destroy the shape-shifting Pennywise -- now more powerful than ever.
Being a big fan of the book, and even having a special place for the 90's mini series, as campy as it was, I felt that captured the tone and essence of the book very well, much better than both chapters of these remakes, and not that skarsgard did a bad job, Tim Curry was perfect as pennywise. Part two suffers from the same downfalls of part one, too much deviation from the source material and I couldn't get into or care about the characters. Just like the kids, I found the acting from the adults for the most part adequate (except for James mcavoy who as a great actor was completely wrong for the part of Bill imo, and looked like he wanted to be anywhere else but on set)
Overuse of cgi and so called "built up jump scares" were laughable, the ending was a cop out too.
The best thing about parts one and two was the acting as well as cinematography, everything else is well below par imo
End of the day, I really wish Cary Fukunaga had a chance to create his version, (which was deemed too dark apparently) I think it would have been a much better adaptation than what was ultimately churned out.
1.5/5