h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

I disagree with Roadkill's comment on the Soul Music animation. The style is more of a throw back of the 1970s animation where motion got sacrificed in place of the visual detail. The same applies with Wyrd Sisters.

Nothing feels right for me except possibly the theme music. It looks old, it feels old, it sounds. This was made of course a few years before Peter Jackson showed people that fantasy could be respected in visual.

And I was never going to give a positive review to the Disc animation for leaving out my favourite scene in the book: The Duke's bandaged hands and paranoid ranting about how his hands won't be clean of Verence I's blood not matter what methods he uses.

Unlike Soul Music's dvd having episodes split, Wyrd Sisters is one long two and a half hour film. I had to watch it in two parts.

I think Christopher Lee is a good Death and Granny Weatherwax/Nanny Ogg sound right despite not looking it. But Jane Horrocks as Magrat is torture and Les Dennis' Fool sounds annoyingly like Soul Music's Imp y Celyn, Andy Hockley. (Wyrd Sisters came first mind you)

The only real laugh I got was the summoned demon.

Pratchett may be "pleased" with it but personally I think it could be done much muchg better with a live action series or less rougher looking animation.



HPB

Good stuff (ok).

*, getting too used to MSN smileys obviously!

Were there any special DVD extras mentioned? I've just started to differentiate between DVDs and videos in the Reviews page, see.

Oh can I add that they blaspheme by showing headology as magic?

---------- *gets dvds*

Soul Music is the same as Wyrd Sisters in extras except it has the Pratchett interview.

Discworld Pilot
Storyboards
Pratchett Biography
Character Biographies
Filmographies
Discworld Bibliography

Hm, I think you should just state videos and just put the dvd extras at the bottom.

That sounds like a good plan, I will put it into effect after dinner.