![]() The scope of Muschietti’s movie, however, is limited to the terrorised pipsqueaks and jettisons their adult selves, containing effectively half the story. Both invoke a profound point saliently made, in recent years, by – of all characters – the protagonist of Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs: that “you can’t run away from your own feet.” As in, you can’t escape things that are inherently part of you. A group of adults battle the makeup-caked monster in present day, while extended flashbacks detail their traumatic first attempts to defeat it as kids. ![]() The book and the mini-series alternated between timelines distanced by several decades. But you’d never know that was a key theme – or even a theme at all – going by director Andy Muschietti’s grotesquely superficial adaptation, which obliterates the subtext and throws the baby out with the blood-imbued bathwater. ![]() The most basic reading of Stephen King’s doorstop novel about a murderous shape-shifting clown, and of the famous 1990 miniseries starring Tim Curry as the red-nosed villain, is that fears we fail to conquer as children return to haunt us in adulthood.
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