It's really nothing new when a movie which was originally a novel fails to shine, is it? But to take such a powerful, emotional and fantastic novel and turn it into what basically amounts to a cheap and very forgetable flick, is really a pity. The depth of the themes in this novel could never have translated well to the screen in my opinion. What you see is a killer clown who turns into a fuzzy spider and tries to eat some people. What the novel gave us was so much more than that - 'IT' - not a clown, or a spider, or any of the monsters; just fear itself made flesh. The relationships between the children in the novel were superbly written, and again, this just did not translate well to the screen - bad screenplay, bad writing, bad casting. The acting was poor.The special effects were mediocre at best, laughable at worst. What the biggest tragedy is though, is that some people who may not yet have read the novel might skip it after seeing the movie - DONT! The novel is nothing like this movie. In summary, a big disappointment for both fans of the original novel, and for horror movie fans. This movie belongs in the sewer with Pennywise.
