I knew it was a bad idea but since Friday had been such a great relaxing day, I let Wife lull me into the movies. Boy was going on and on about the new menu. He was so excited for the new menu that they went and had dinner there tonight (Friday). I knew from Wife that It was about overcoming your fears so I convinced myself it would be ok to watch. Add to that, Chubs and Wife had seen the 90's version and even Chubs was saying it wasn't that scary. I was regretting my decision within the first 5 minutes. Brothers Billy and Georgie are working on that paper boat and you know the younger kid is victim #1. He goes into the basement and that alone has plenty of suspense as shitty parents in scary movies never maintain their homes so lights never work.
Fast forward to Georgie talking to Pennywise the Clown who seems friendly and smily in the first few minutes but ends up leaving Georgie in a bloody red smear on the road which the rain quickly washes away. Throughout the town, people, mostly kids, are disappearing at an alarming rate. The movie quickly settles in on a group of kids who dub themselves "losers" and take in anyone needing friends. Billy is the older brother of the first boy taken as the movie starts. He takes personal responsibility but really? Where the hell are the parents in all these type of movies? Billy has stutters and that makes him sound weak, but he is probably the bravest kid in the bunch. There is a girl who joins them and we discover her dad has been molesting her probably since a young age. Another boy has a mom who is a hypochondriac, a chubby boy joins them after he is being bullied by an older group of jerks.
The chubby boy is new to town and since he has no friends initially he is spending his time researching the town and its history. He discovers since the beginning of the town, every 27 years there is a spike in disappearances. He is looking through old photos and starts seeing the clown. As the kids start talking, they all admit they are having or have had run ins with the clown. Instead of running and trying to hide from him, Billy decides enough is enough, they have mapped out the city and all the disappearances are connected by the sewer system, why the adults don't go investigate is beyond me, and the original water well is now sitting under an old abandoned "crack house". That is where they have determined Pennywise lives, so they go there united and strong.
The house has scary properties and manages to separate the guys and the clown does seem poised to get one of the boys, he has broken his arm and is as scared as a boy can get. Just as the clown is disconnecting his jaw and starting the killing of a new boy, his friends storm in and stab him with a piece of fence iron. The clown perhaps for the first time, shows fear himself. He slithers his way to the basement and dives into the old well where presumably, he comes from. Billy wants to chase, but the others convince him to run away. They have a falling out after this battle and they all go their separate ways.
It takes the girl getting kidnapped by the clown to bring them all back and back in the well to face off again. There is a lot going on and some of it is genuinely annoying, such as the little idiots keep running off after there own scary interests keep popping up. These are just ploys to isolate and attack any kid better. The kids eventually get the better of Pennywise, or so we think. The movie ends with them going down with a win, but they also know the thing may restart on it's own in the future. The original was over seven hours long. This movie was only 2.5 hours long, so there are many hours missing if we are comparing apples to apples.
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