To start, if any film is criticized and unliked by critics then it will be a good movie, whith that being said I cant help to compare IT 1 & 2 to the made for tv series and the book as I watched the movie. I enjoyed the movies more than the original tv series but of course am a little disappointed on the differences from the book. I liked the innocence of the era the book was written in, to me that made it scarier. I do however dislike how the monsters the children/adults seen were not true to the book. Dont get me wrong, for a book into movie it still is very good it is just hard to seperate the book from the movie. One of the few books I have read more than twice, thats how great the book is.