Until The Clown Gets In The Way: Movie Analysis

For this assignment, Hillary Busis put her thoughts about the movie “IT” into her review called “It Review: An Excellent Coming-of-Age Movie, Until the Clown Gets in the Way.” This is a mixed review but I picked it because it agrees with my opinion on the movie for the most part. After watching it just once I would love to watch this movie over again, the pure talent in this movie was incredible. Even with great similarities to the original movie, it dominated in the theaters, and had audiences of all ages wanting more. This movie was absolutely amazing but the critique did not do it justice. Every movie is going to have a good and a bad review, I decided to pick a bad review so I could compare my thoughts with theirs, yet also argue that the

The article is called, It Review: An Excellent Coming-of-Age Movie, Until That Clown Gets in the Way. Hillary Busis starts her article out by stating that “Stephen King’s most terrifying creation is all bark and no bite in this adaptation.” To me I took this as Busis did not enjoy the movie as much as I did. All bark and no bite in my mind means that the movie was talked up but ended up not living up to all that is was said to be. This comment pushed me to believe that this review was going to be focusing more on the negatives of this movie instead of all the positives. I was very wrong. Even though Busis states some negative things, she shares her thoughts on how good this movie is. The article had some main points on how great the teenager cast performed. She pointed out that the movie was rated R, allowing the children to use more inappropriate language to make the move lighter at points. In one of her middle paragraphs Busis talks about the original “IT” and the remake. She states, “Though King’s novel crosscuts between its characters as children in 1958 and as adults in 1985, the new movie takes advantage of current nostalgia trends by transporting the kids to 1989 and nixing material about the grown-up Losers entirely.” Busis points out that the remake is not the same as the original, this lets the audience know that they will not be bored watching the remake if they have already

The article states that this movie is just another boring, predictable horror movie. I found the remake movie very entertaining even though I have already watched the first one. I disagree with Busis who said she did not like how the remake did not have the children in their adult lives. I personally liked this feature because it is setting the next movie up in the future. That movie will be all about the adult life and this way they can expand their ideas using both adult and adolescent lives on screen. I also disagree with Busis when she says the clown should be taken out of the whole movie altogether. The original Pennywise was scary but did not have the best effects to make him look better. This new and improved 2017 Pennywise looked extremely scary and had all they right characteristics. Busis thinks the movie was “softened” slightly because they made the bullies have at least some morals and feelings of regret. They also took out the “racially charged language.” This, in her opinion, has made the character of Mike not very well developed and kind of unknown. I disagree. Mike was singled out in the movie many times by the bullies and he was one of the teens that brought all the children closer together. When Mike was getting rocks thrown at him by the bullies, all his friends stepped in to help him out, creating a bonding moment in the movie for all the