Review of Part 1

I didn't get thrilled by this adaptation. Sure there is a really effort to put King's huge novel in 3 hours but the result is that the repetitive story-line is much apparent now than in the novel : the 6 calls to the losers, their 6 memories and finally their 5 arrivals are a bit too much… Next, Derry is written like a dark small town, a bit like Twin peaks and in the series we don't know where we are because there is absolutely no interest to map it ! The cast is good but honestly, the young ones are much better than the adult ones ! At last, the big terror from « It » is visually totally ridiculous : in the novel, the idea of a clown was not really essential because we made it up with words ; here we don't have the choice as we have to do with a crazy, big, white faced clown totally irritating ! And i didn't talk about its spider form for which special effects are really poor like all the other done in the movie ! So this adaptation is maybe the only one who achieves to work against the novel as visualizing the story makes it dumb and silly (why the small door in the lair ????)….