It

Both critics and audience have been acclaiming this new adaptation of Stephen King's novel. "It" is being a huge commercial success worldwide, grossing 500 million USD at this time and making it a particularly lucrative adventure. I saw it yesterday in Paris (at the beautiful Gaumont Opéra Capucines) with great (but silly) expectations, wondering whether the word being spread was right. But in fact, what I saw looked very much like an "average" contemporary Hollywood production. A few scenes involving Pennywise, particularly as he tries to lure children into his hellish sewers, are fun to watch. Bill Skarsg?rd is quite convincing as a soft spoken but starving and mouth watering child flesh eating clown. I am however disappointed by the lack of originality in the storytelling and in the filming. It is terror with (too) good looks.