Especially those expecting a fantasy-fest will be sorely disappointed. However, they never feel overtaxed with their task, which makes it easier to suspend your disbelief in this adaption than in the other ones.Of course, the movie is not for everyone. Certainly, the visuals still to a perfect job at bringing Discworld to life, mostly due to the enormous attention given to them. This was a mistake all too obvious in Colour of Magic, and is one not repeated here. After the somewhat confused and heavily-altered adaption of Colour of Magic, it is a relief to see a certain solid quality in terms of serious movie features returning to the series.Let's face it: a TV-based production never does well when it relies on special effects more than it does on good actors, a decent script and solid direction.
This time, you know precisely what you are looking at. This is all but true, yet, the lack of a fairy-tale air allows the narrative to flow much better. It is based on one of Pratchett's newer stories and evokes a more urban industrial Steampunk feel than its Fantasy (Colour of Magic) and Faerie Tale-based (Hogfather) predecessors.Still, for a friend of solid acting, solid backdrops, and more substance than metaphor, this may qualify as the best of the bunch.Someone pointed out that the film lacked the "magic" of the other adaptions. his own life) and win over the principled Golem-rights-activist Adora Dearheart, he has to employ all his conman wit to beat the owner of the telegraph-like "Clacks" in a business race evoking industrial-age competitions like that between Westinghouse and Edison, where showmanship and publicity were far more important than the actual product.Talking about the product, this movie is well-acted and well-presented. There are many reasons for my surprise, which I will introduce in the following short review.Going Postal is a story about a master con-artist who faces the gallows but it given a second shot at life as master of Ankh Morpork's run-down post office. I must admit that I am quite surprised about the negative feedback the third movie based on Pratchett's works has received. Because even if those 2 details could have been done A LOT better, there is the whole rest of the movie, and this is a movie that has great acting, great story, great atmosphere, great characters and not to forget Great Entertainment Value!Going Postal is by far the best Discworld movie as of yet and if you are only able to see past the few bad drops in the bucket filled with greatness, Im sure you will come to the same conclusion as me. The moment this guy enters flailing his paper wings and screaming the whole atmosphere takes a big dip.So now you ask, if the movie is so bad why did you rate it so high? Its quite simple really, because of the two things I just discussed. And even then they had to go ahead and make a wolf animation of her, the type of crappy animations I was hoping wouldn't be required in Going Postal!Second thing to hate about the movie is the Banshee, seriously, it's the most silly piece of outfit ever seen! If you cant make a good banshee with wings, then use some of that cinematic freedom and just make him normal man dressed in black with some black smoke around him! As it turns out the banshee is the single most disturbing thing about this movie since everything else adds to an atmosphere that the Discworld is actually real. First, Angua has been totally removed use some cinematic freedom and replaced with a "posh blond pale looking I'm not afraid to transform to a werewolf anywhere" girl, which many fans probably hate, I myself hate it as well. I believe what all this is about is the use of Cinematic Freedom. This is where the previous movie Color of Magic went wrong.So as it came to my knowledge Going Postal was the next movie to be made I felt quite happy, perhaps this would be the time when they got it all right?Now that I've seen the result I must say that it was in fact, quite awesome! This is far much better than the mediocre Color of Magic adaptation, and it even goes ahead and surpasses the first movie Hoghfather.There are a few things to hate about Going Postal though, and I believe these are the reasons some people absolutely hate this movie.
Small amount of magic and special effects that would require a 100 Million budget to make decent. Why? you ask and I answer Good story that is easy to follow without any previous knowledge of Discworld. A few things to hate, So Many things to love!įirst off, This is the third film based on Terry Pratchett Discworld and if you have seen the previous films you know they lacked in quite many areas.As it happens to be, the moment I started reading Going Postal(the book) I thought for myself "This would make a really great movie!".