to start thing off honestly represent it be probably one of the poor book adaption i have see in quite some time . after read the book and find an extraordinary piece of writing and an amazing work of art and i be thrill to see the movie . i know it couldn not be all that the book be and but i hope for some semblance . and some semblance be what i get . and that all . the deep and thoughtful construction that help build the novel and where both the story and the side of 1958 and the side of 1985 ( the year be change in the movie and but there nothing wrong with that ) be show alternatingly and start with 1958 and move ahead to 1985 and and back again and create a heartfelt atmosphere . the movie instead play the old part in the first segment and a one full flashback that try to cram way too many event into one bit and whereas they should have simply try to organize their own way of tell and and the more recent event in the second half . it seem like every event in the child section be segment into 15 minute episode and just try to pile notable event in from the book and and it doesn not work . it might have work good if they keep the construction that king originally establish and but even then it would have hardly stood and a they take the event for no reason . and even with this chronological sorting and they seem to actually forget scene and have to tack them on later a additional flashback that have little to do with the scene and but desperately need introduction earlier . go be the unifying theme of the group represent they each escape it . that there and in a way and but it moreover just toss in for scare and and horribly stupid one at that . go be the leper with the three foot tongue that chase eddie down the traintracks . go be any fear or tension when bill rid off on his bike with stan ( it be richie in the book and but that not important . it suppose to be a moment of escape and but they just simply ride away and ruin all reason for silver to matter until the end and when the maker suddenly remember that they need it . and then and the bad two bastardization . it ok if richie encounter a werewolf instead of a giant statue . it ok if the scene with georgie at the start be during the day and steal what could have be a truly horrific scene ( maybe cause it be make for tv and that lighten it . ) it ok if the whole point of henry return be go ( maybe not . but i would have let it slide . ) and it ok that they cut out the kid be lose after first believe they kill it ( definitely because of the make for tv movie . hell and even a theatrical movie . i do not see that scene and even in suggestion and ever reach film if this movie be to be remade and i be not go to reveal it and you will just have to read the book . ) and go be the origin of it . no and those thing be forgivable . let get to what isn not . personal bastardization represent i felt jipped when they finally confront it and the whole deadlight business be dumbed down . it wasn not suppose to be hypnotic and it be a staring contest and that would eventually lead into the ritual of chud . this point be miss . and then the turtle ( do not ask and read ) be also go and lose the relation to the universe that stephen king set up in the novel . it no wonder that the scene of patrick hockstetter and his demented fridge ( aside from it be make for tv and that scene would never be allow ) and a the dealing of the other weren not explore or even mention . i want to see how they portray the whole scene and they do not even have it and which ruin the entire final confrontation at the end . universal bastardization represent the vow to return . in this and they easily walk out of the sewer and look outward and where bill have them promise to return . in the novel and they crawl from there and exhaust and bewilder . instead and there be no forced promise while they do it themselves and cut their palm with a glass coke bottle and make a blood pact that they would return if it be still alive . and the meaning disappear as well and but i would not get into why and for fear of tell too much of the book and which i truly hope the reader of this review will read . ok and i suppose i should get onto why i let this have two star instead of one if i hat what it have do to the book and right . there be some beautifully horrifying scene and such a when beverly exit her childhood home and see a balloon bounce down the road and laughing . the sharkteeth in pennywise mouth aren not use well and but they look scary . and there be the great scene when they be child and where they hold hand in a circle and stan suddenly find himself hold hand with the clown . the acting be decent for a tv movie and there be a few notable celebrity . these few thing aren not enough to make the movie good and and it really would only be scary for young child and who probably shouldn not be watch it anyway . with the same budget and time space and a decent movie of it could have be make . instead and there this trash . i can only hope that someday and there will be another version of this create and one that capture the emotion and atmosphere and and incredible imagination that form stephen king masterpiece of a novel and it .