10 Reasons IT Is Better Than The Original

3. There's A Lot More Of Pennywise

Going back to watch the 1990 It once again, it's genuinely surprising just how little Tim Curry actually appears in the movie.

He pops up only intermittently and naturally ends up being replaced by a giant rubber spider in the final stretch, but his performance is impactful enough that, to his credit, memory dictates that he's in the film much more than he actually is.

Conversely, fans get a lot more of Bill Skarsgård's equivalent here, and it certainly helps that the film is roughly 40 minutes longer than the first half of the TV movie.

Though Skarsgård's screen time is initially quite scant, he shows up for several lengthy sequences in the second half and gives audiences far more clown for their buck than the original.