... and it was terrible. I mean, I suppose the story was ok in principle (apart from the whole clown thing, that's pretty silly), but the acting and the script and the casting were really, really awful. I've given up on critquing special effects in old movies, because I recognize that they did the best they could. In fact, the special effects weren't terrible in general, but for 1990 they still weren't great.
I was surpised by the casting. It was cool to see Seth Green as a 14-year-old (playing a 12yo), and I was a bit surprised to see Tim Curry and Harry Andersen. But it seems they didn't even bother picking kids that looked like their grown-up counterparts, or vice-versa. There was no resemblence at all, except that the black kid was a black adult. Oh, and the dialogue! Geesh! I can't even quote any of it. It was so bad, I think my brian has burnt the relevant memory nodes to cinders in self-defense. The really funny thing is the main character was a horror novel writer who was writing a screen version of his book so no one else would butcher it. Well, I guess that was some kind of in-joke. But it would have been a lot better if Stephen King had written his own screenplay for IT.
Overall, I haven't been so intellectually offended by a movie since I watched Ghost Rider a few days ago.