Stephen King's It
by Tommy Lee Wallace
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Actor: Annette O'Toole, Dennis Christopher, Harry Anderson, Richard Thomas, Tim ReidDirector: Tommy Lee Wallace
Brand: Warner Brothers
Writer: Tommy Lee Wallace
Producer: Allen S. Epstein
Producer: Jim Green
Producer: Mark Bacino
Producer: Matthew O'Connor
Writer: Lawrence D. Cohen
Writer: Stephen King
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround; English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); French (Subtitled)
Format: Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, DVD, NTSC, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.85:1
Running Time: 192 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2002-10-01
Audience Rating: Unrated
Studio: Warner Home Video
DVD Reviews of Stephen King's It
DVD Review: Read the book instead. This is one of the worst adaptations of King's work.
Summary: 1 Stars
The basic plot of IT is a group of kids come together to fight a monster lurking underneath the town, & come together again years later as adults to finish the job. As the book is over 1000+ pages, & seeing as how this mini series is 3 hours, it was inevitable that things would be cut.
The problem is, there is so much more to the book than just monster hunting. All of the themes & character development in King's novel got cut. The movie has extremely little of those things, so each scene is just one Pennywise encounter after another. This, quite frankly, is rather boring. The way King wrote the story was much more absorbing & riveting than whats shown in this. In King's book, there are many, many scenes with the characters interacting, or descriptions of Derry & its history, so I think its much more frightening when Pennywise does show up.
But apart from that, the adult actors are miscast & have no chemistry with each other. To be fair, the story was totally rushed & had very little character development, so the actors didn't have much to work with, but its a problem because one of the themes in King's book is friendship.
And of course, the movie is also ineptly made. What is with the cheap TV style score? It made it seem more cheesy than serious. They don't even capture the mood & atmosphere of King's novel, & this awful score doesn't help. The cinematography is bland & uninspired. There are no interesting shots. Oh, I also musn't forget the atrocious editing. For instance, the close ups of Pennywise showing its "scary" teeth are so painful & cheesy to watch. They don't mix in with the other shots in the scenes.
I won't get into the awful special effects at the end either, other than to say since they changed so much of King's story they might as well changed the ending too. This movie is not even close to being scary, & its like its supposed to be some bad parody of King's amazing book.
On the positives, I will say Curry was good, albeit he played the role for laughs rather than scares. I understand he's a clown, but he's much more scary in the book. The child actors were well cast, & some of the scenes were faithful to the book. Apart from these things, this movie is complete garbage. Read the book instead.
DVD Review: crazy for Stephen King movies
Summary: 5 Stars
This movie keeps you wandering what is going to happen next. It does have alot of going back and forth in time between adulthood and childhood but it would not be any good if it didnt do that. Now I know why alot of people are afraid of "CLOWNS". This is one bad clown. I have a feeling Stephen King must have had a problem with clowns. What do you think?DVD Review: Love This Movie- Classic!
Summary: 5 Stars
Love Love Love this movie!!!! Classic Stephen King must have movie- horror filled and won't disappoint!!! DVD Review: It- The Movie
Summary: 3 Stars
Although packed with a star-studded cast, the movie version of Stephen King's "It" fails to deliver a shutter of the suspense, horror or blood colored drama of the book. Turn off the TV, grab the book. You won't be disappointed or sleep or dare go into a sewer where this movie belongs.DVD Review: BEEP BEEP GOOD RATING!
Summary: 5 Stars
Everyone afraid of clowns. Although, Tim Curry Did It Again. A Master At His Own Work. A Must For Collectors And Steven King Collectors.
Description of Stephen King's It
Based on the King Of Horror's 1986 Best Seller, "It" is a jittery, jolting excursion into personal fear. "It" raises goosebumps-and brings out the stars. Harry Anderson, Dennis Christopher, Annette O'Toole, Tim Reid, John Ritter, Tim Curry and Richard Thomas star in this thriller about a malevolent force in a small New England town.Is there anything scarier than clowns? Of course not. And who knows scary better than Stephen King? You see where we're going. It puts a malevolent clown (given demented life by a powdered, red-nosed Tim Curry) front and center, as King's fat novel gets the TV-movie treatment. Even at three hours plus, the action is condensed, but an engaging Stand by Me vibe prevails for much of the running time. The seven main characters, as adolescents, conquered a force of pure evil in their Maine hometown. Now, the cackling Pennywise is back, and they must come home to fight him--or, should we say, It--again. Admitting the TV-movie trappings and sometimes hysterical performances, this is a genuinely gripping thriller. As so often with King, the basic idea (the bond formed during a childhood trauma) is clean and powerful, a lifeline anchored in reality that leads us to the supernatural. --Robert Horton
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