I have a message from Matthew Broderick. He says *ahem* "That's a lot of balloons."

So all those years of my childhood that I spent avoiding the book called "It" on my dad's bookshelf were pointless because "It" turns out to be Gohma from the Legend of Zelda. Wonderful.

"missing member of the insane clown posse" i fucking lost it hahhahah

I've never watched the movie or read the book, but... Are you seriously trying to tell me that the magical murderous clown's true form is basically a Legend of Zelda boss?

Ok, I usually agree with you Critic, but there's something I need to get off my chest here: The balloons aren't the scary part! Neither is "It" being a clown! The fear comes from the fact that this thing doesn't follow the rules of reality, hell, if it didn't care so much about fucking up their lives, and just killed them instantly, it would be literally unstoppable! When Mike turns around and sees the balloon, he isn't freaking out because it's a balloon, he's freaking out because he knows that It was in the room with him and he didn't even notice. If you were sitting in your room, and got up to go to the bathroom or something, you're gone for maybe a minute, and you come back to see that everything in your room has been moved around, is your reaction "Oh god, something's in my house?" or "Gosh darn it, I just cleaned this room last week." Admittedly, alot of the things you mentioned made sense, the flashbacks were pretty dumb, the spider thing was stupid, and Curry in the library was possibly the funniest thing I've seen in a long time, but god damn! This monster does something that goes beyond all sense of reality, bending time and space to scare these kids, and your reaction is "this is silly, why balloons?!?" ... Just really bugs me.

The plot makes sence, it's just that you don't really get it. The reason why Pennywise becomes a werewolf, a mumy, a dog and all the other things, is because he is the definition of fear. That's why he persues everyone differently. They all fear differente things. That's also why the battery acid and saying bird names worked. It's something that made them feel safe. The baloons are not scary because it's baloons. They are supposed to be signs of Pennywise. Kinda like that bees aren't scary until you're chades by the candyman.

the whole they float thing is referring to dead bodies I think.

I'm EXTREMELY arachnophobic and even I don't find that monster scary. I think that says a lot...

I really feel he's taking way to many shots on King's writing for stuff they did in the movie. First, Henry is evil, but he's not one dimensional, there are whole chapters on his point of view. Second, IT is explained in the book, and his origin is understood thoroughly Three, The Clown does try to kill the kids in the book, the movie ignored that for ratings purposes I assume. Fourth, the Town is supposed to be evil, that's why the kids are isolated and feel alone. Fifth, the flashbacks didn't even appear in the book in the same way. You can't blame Stephen Kings for these tropes.

Ok, in the book the characters all basically had a gang bang with Beverly after defeating Pennywise as kids. I don't know why no one talks about that.

It never really scared me. If Pennywise used his scary/funny routine, I'd just laugh, because he is genuinely pretty funny.

I love the book, but the ending sucks in both versions. Its worse in the book though, because your reaction goes from "WE WAITED THREE HOURS FOR THAT!?!" to "WE WAITED ONE THOUSAND FUCKING PAGES FOR THAT!?!"

I love this movie. Treated it like a nonsensical dark comedy flick.

"...the sunniest rainy day in history..." Only in Kansas, oh wait this is Maine.

That bathtub scene used to disturb the crap out of me, but now, thanks to this review, I can't get through that scene anymore without laughing hysterically.

This is by far my favorite NC episode. The Critic's comedy is just on point, and just kills me every time I see it. Not only that, but I loved this movie a lot as a kid.

Honestly, you'd have to read the book to understand a majority of this. Although I'm just glad the movie doesn't have THAT scene in it. If you read the book you know what i'm talking about

I saw this show when I was little, on a VHS. I wasn't scared of it. Now I rewatched it... I laughed my ass off😂

"The only black man in Maine". I died there for some reason XD

This NC is a classic. Had to come back and watch it again. And the part where he's talking about Tim Curry in the library has me in tears.

The critic has to admit this movie is best watched from 15 and under. Gave me nightmares and was scared of the drain for weeks.

"How's your sex life?" Oh no he's turning into Tommy Wisaeu

"They all float. You will too." The balloons are the souls of the children It devoured.

''The book starts to have the time of the month'' OMG I DIED XDDDD

Of course they were high. There balloons, they float c:

At least it didn't include the weird sex between Beverly and each of the other kids in turn thing from the book.

I think the reason the bird book thing worked was really very simple. When a small child wakes up crying because of a nightmare what do you do? You go comfort them and get them thinking about something completely different so they aren't scared anymore. Well older kids can do the same thing fro themselves. IT preys on the fears of kids and Stan was scared of the Mummy in the movies and Richie of the werewolf(though the werewolf was wearing a letter men jacket I don't know why). So Stan did the only thing you can do in that situation get himself to think about something completely different so he isn't so scared. That's what I think anyway and makes perfect sense to me. You should read the book it was really good.

"My dream is finally realized! I- //sniff sniff// What smells like urinated whiskey?" "You smell that? That's *death*"

I see a clown anywhere that isn't a circus and I'm getting out of their faster then you can say nope!

a giant, fucking spider was IT. are you serious? and its got a GIANT GLOWING WEAK POINT ON ITS STOMACH like a fucking VIDEO GAME.

18:24 "Excuse me sir, do you have Prince Albert in a can? You do? Well, you better let the poor guy out. WA HEH! WA HEH! WA HEH!" Quite possibly my favourite Tim Curry performance. :D

I mean, all things aside, Tim Curry's a good actor IMO.

"Sticks and stones may break my bones but first you gotta throw 'em" -Nostalgia Critic

the "whaaaaat,,, why,,,,?" part killed me

It was explained. It was an alien spider that crashed into the earth in the Jurassic period. I don't know why anyone would find that confusing or obtuse.

_It_ got its infamous reputation because, in the 70's it was controversial/stretched the bounds as being the scariest thing showed on television at the time, as a mini-series movie. And yes, fear of clowns spawned heavily because of this this film.

you think the kids holding hands to survive the dead lights was bad, in the book the kids survived by having a gang bang with bev. Also every other chapter had bev getting raped, which explains why you shouldn't crank out novels while addicted to alcohol and amphetamines.

Looks like the Critic slapped Bill so hard he felt it till adulthood.

when i saw this movie i was scared it was really good well at least to me but the ending with the spider was sooooooooooooooooooo fucking stupid it was fucking horrible

I think that the mummy was so confused by what he was doing that it stopped to try to understand it.

It's funny how many people are saying Critic is wrong here. You all realize what an opinion is, right?

The cameras purrrrty!

Spider-It... Spider-It... Does whatever a Spider-It does...

I love it when Critic's drunk in reviews - he's got a great style of playing a drunk person. I died at 'the camera's pretty'.

The spider thing actually looks more like a King Crab than a spider in my opinion. Mabye it's a joke, Stephen King, King Crab?

The book is actueally really good. It explains a lot, like wear pennywise came from and other stuff

"...sunniest rainy day ever" In New Zealand, we call that Saturday.

Critic keeps complaining about how Pennywise didn't kill the kids, yet he explains it when he's inside Mike's book, and again in the sewers: He's trying to drive them crazy because A. He's a sadist, and B. They apparently "taste so much better".

imagine you are taking a shower. Tim Curry walks in wearing a clown suit. how is that not the most frightening thing that could happen to you?

I don't know why. But even till this day this damn movie freaks me out. I'm not even afraid of clowns but that damn clown gives me nightmares. they allll float down here!

I hate to be that guy...but...the book was a lot better than the movie. Oh, it wasn't scarier or anything. No, not at all. Just a lot more interesting...albeit very hard to follow. And even more retarded. Spoiler: Pennywise the Clown is actually an alien life form. And Bill and friends have been getting help fighting him from an ethereal god turtle thing the entire time. I'm not joking. Not even a little bit. stephenking.wikia.com/wiki/Maturin Stephan Keeng is the bestest riter.

What was the point of making It a clown that uses psychological torture, if it just turns into a spider? It defeats the whole purpose of having It a clown. Its like having a Arkham game have Joker turning into a massive-- Oh Yea...

Yeah, this mini-series was kinda meh due to it being adapted pretty badly, the book was really good (and fucking terrifying). But I disagree when doug says King makes crap stories, just watch The Shawshank redemption and you'll se a very good example of birlliant story-telling.

The spider is not pennywise's true form just a manfestation of a common fear as the naked eye cant actually comprihend its true form

This was one of the first NC reviews I ever saw, and to this day it is still one of my favorites!

"This is turning into a stand up at Jeffrey Dahmer's house" ROFL, I seriously just died

12:18 - 12:25, Am I the only one who thinks that's just how Tim Curry tries to pick up people at clubs?

"She's seriously easier to get into than an art college"..ROFL!! Seriously made me laugh my ass off.

OMG the acting in the last bit was ball churning. BRAVO!

"didja get that audience? Ok here we go" XD man he is funny!

I always knew this was a comedy. :D

Oddly enough; this show-movie thing actually made me stop fearing clowns.

i knew it was the balloons from the start, they didnt fool me

Funny, IT didn't make me afraid of clowns as a child. It was Killer Clowns From Outer Space. My mom used to make me watch that shit and it'd give me damn nightmares lol.

Why does a public library have a minifridge with beer (unless I misheard that)? Aren't public libraries ran by the county/parrish and isn't it illegal to have alcohol on city/government property?

22:48. I honestly didn't expect eyeballs lol

SCARING THE LITTLE GIRL?? LADY!!

huh, props to NC for not taking shots at the conservative christian family. thats a surprisingly sad rarity among internet celebrities....

So many of his story's have main characters who are writers. It gets old after a while, Considering how many careers are out there to choose from.

To be far, the adaptations are almost never like the books. The novel It explains so much, the characters are deeper and it's a hell of a lot scarier. The spider is as close to It's true form as the human mind can comprehend and the deadlights cause people to die or go insane. Trust me Critic: read the novel. Oh, and please review the good adaptations like Misery, Shawshank Redemption, The Green Mile or Christine.

"oh hey, its a beauitful Tim Curry out tonight EEEEEEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRH"

The this is Halloween joke with the moon was actually really clever. I like it.

You missed one shot, principal character with dysfunctional family issues

And that why the book is ALWAYS better than the movie/series. In the book you get to know what is the clown.

It was a three hour episode of goosebumps

I just got finished reading the book and I have to say, the movie is so inferior it almost doesn't deserve to be called "It".

Keep in mind, guys, that he is drunk. Also, Doug is entitled to his own opinions.

I can understand the people who are fans of Steven King don't love the review. Bad adaptions just suck since it makes the source material look bad. No comment on the book, but yeah this adaptation is pretty weak. A lot of weirdness, but not really scary. I get a good laugh from the review, but I didn't read that book so it's easier in that case. At least checking out the comments gave some insight into what was actually good in the book in comparison to...this.

This review was a work of GENIUS! Laughed my ass off even though I was sober.

Someone needs to make a clip with Rob's crazy expressions.

In the book, Bev as a child, sleeps with all of the boys. It was weird. When I watched the movie it scared the shit outta me. As a kid, it was fucking traumatic. It is made to scare children, and is totally inappropriate for children. Bad parenting in the early 90s.

Huge fan of IT (more the book than the movie but hey) and this video had me laughing so much I needed to keep pausing it or I'd miss bits :) The bit with the flashback sound effects was a highlight! :D Hilarious!!!!

"We waited THREE FUCKING HOURS for THAT?!!?" That has got to be one of the most perfect line deliveries I've ever heard in my life! Lmfao!!!

I love the part when he said what are mummy is a allergic the sounds of birds names . that part made me laughing so hard 😂

here's a better drinking game code take a shot when ever you see a balloon take a shot when ever someone says "FLOAT" that is all, have fun and drink up!

Is this "It" or "the Clown Knight Returns" (to be fair, I also considered the "WatchClown")

I think that what King tried (and... maybe failed) to show with the story was that childhood traumas stay with us all our lives as phobias. For example, the dog that attacks the mental hospital guy. King has a phobia of dogs, I think (see also: Cujo) so that's what he writes into his books. As well as alcoholic, terrible parents, terrible spouses, being bullied... it's pretty much autobiographical and cathartic for King. BUT, these fears can be fought through childhood innocence, as shown in the last scene where the near-cathatonic woman is revived by the sheer simple joy of riding a bicycle. "IT" would prey on those phobias by assuming the shape of that which scared you most, and a lot of people around the world (particularly kids) are terrified of clowns. The whole balloon thing is taking something that's normally joyous and fun and turning it into the prelude to something you fear. Plus the whole "they float" thing is a metaphor for death, I believe. Y'know, ghosts and all that? I did find it disappointing that IT was a creature from outer space and not something supernatural like a boggart or a poltergeist. That would've made more sense. The book does a better job IMO but I do agree... King's endings tend to be... really disappointing.

When I first saw this, I was laughing so hard at the part about the deadlights

Uh, did I miss something? How did we go from a clown to a huge spider, and what was the significance of floating? Do spiders have clown fetishes? I hope the book fills in that information for us.

The book IT is even more nuts its awesome I mean A giant FUCKING COSMIC TURTLE I'm not making this up. As for the movie I might be one of the few kids I knew who LOVED this and didn't find this movie the least bit scary. Two things 1. about that girl sleeping with every member of the group..... And that isnt IT's real form the book states that's just the closest thing our minds can approximate.

I actually played the drinking game... i still have a hangover.

The death scene at the end still kills me.

Yeah, I too used to be HORRIFIED by this movie as a kid, but now, I really do see it's kinda goofy. The book however, can still be very creepy and entertaining as hell. The movie had to leave A LOT of stuff from the book out, mainly because it'd probably be 12 hours long if it covered everything, as well as some parts just being...plain NSFW. Like the explanation that Pennywise is simply an otherwordly entity that feeds on human flesh, being particularly fond of kids. He taps into each kid's darkest fears, and turns himself into what they fear while stalking them, because the fear is like "salting the meat", simply using the clown form as a "base" or "standard" physical form. There's also: The very interesting character of Patrick Hockstetter, a psychotic, solipsistic kid who killed his baby brother, tortures animals to death, and gives the bully Henry a hand-job just to blackmail him into giving him a dollar. The various stories of how Pennywise has lurked in Derry for thousands of years and how he's affected generations of people over history. The scene where Beverly actually has sex with EVERY SINGLE one of the other boys while they're all down in the sewers to confront Pennywise to calm them down and keep them from giving up...among many other things. So yeah, people, you're better off just reading the book. Or if you can't for whatever reason, you can always look up an audiobook reading on KZfaq or audible.com.

Bah, those series suffered the same as any horror book adaptation to cinema or TV: THE FUCKING CENSORSHIP! Like, when each of them meet the monster for the 1st time, the thing actually try to brutally kill them; or when they face him(or her, it depends on the reader's POV) together, they actually start to lose their shit (reasons unknown) and Beverly has to have sex with each one of them for them to calm down. Also, each death in the book is gruesomely detailed.

It's funny how people always say something's bad merely because they don't understand them.....

And you are right, Critic. Young Richie is played by a young Seth Green. Found that on the Stephen King Wiki.

I really wish he didn't blame all flaws of the adaptations on the source material. They're adaptations. A lot of stuff was badly translated or left out all together.

24:30 It's not that the town is in on it, it's because they're inside of IT's sphere of influence, so to speak. In Derry, people would see these bad things happening and overlook it because of a kind of hypnotism that effects just about everyone in Derry. They would see it, turn away, and not remember it again unless it was called to their attention, similar to the main casts apparent inability to recall IT before Mike called them and reminded them.

Also, great job on the I Love Lucy reference!

The Rocky Horror reference almost made me spill my beer