Pennywise’s darkish, darkish historical past paints the character as the last word boogeyman with hefty scoops of each clown and alien horror thrown in. However, a serious problem on this idea is that Mary Poppins seems to be much more environment friendly than the clown monster in what she does. Pennywise, for all his fearsome would possibly, has to lure and terrorize fairly just a few youngsters and in the end finds coping with the Losers’ Membership a serious problem. In the meantime, Mary Poppins casually arrives and takes management. She would possibly as effectively be all-powerful so far as her films are involved, and solely must work with two or three youngsters directly.
This brings us to “Monsters, Inc.” Because the beloved animated film’s ending establishes, a baby’s worry is a far much less environment friendly vitality supply than their laughter, which is why the monsters pivot from their time-tested boogeyman antics to bedtime slapstick comedy. Although neither Mary Poppins nor Pennywise the Dancing Clown are a part of the Pixar universe (so far as we all know), this identical logic would possibly clarify why the previous’s interactions with the kids are way more benevolent than Pennywise’s. She’s merely realized to harness pleasure, creativeness, and childlike marvel as a meals supply, whereas the clown entity hasn’t discovered the trick — or, because the case could very effectively be, maybe he merely prefers the style of worry.