Terry Pratchett's Discworld Collection (Wyrd Sisters / Soul Music)
by Jean Flynn
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Actor: Andy Hockley, Bernard Wrigley, Christopher Lee, Graham Crowden, Neil MorrisseyDirector: Jean Flynn
Producer: Jean Flynn
Producer: Craig Hemmings
Producer: Mark Hall
Writer: Terry Pratchett
Audio: English (Original Language)
Format: Color, DVD-Video, Full Screen, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 322 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2008-08-26
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: Acorn Media
DVD Reviews of Terry Pratchett's Discworld Collection (Wyrd Sisters / Soul Music)
DVD Review: Honourable adaptation
Summary: 2 Stars
As any Terry Pratchett fan, I have of course read the books before watching the movies or playing the videogames. The impact of this movie is under the impact of the book. I am a professionnal inbeetweener for animation films, and it is probably what made my disapointment in front of this movie. It is strictly correctly adapted, following the same sceneray, the exact dialogs. It just looks like a book read by very brittish voices. But the animation is very poor, even the drawings themselves look like a cheat, there are several scenes used several times in the movie but with different dialogs. I do appreciate it has been made years and years ago, but it was not the birth of animation, and here even the colours are not attractive at all.
And above all I would say this adaptation is strictly LIKE reading the book as it is very long and perfectly matching almost every line of a book. So this movie is clearly for Terry Pratchett's fans, only adults as it is defenitely not an adaptation for kids, and it is just as reading the book out loud with coloured pictures to illustrate it.
Not perfect, not really what you could expect for an animated movie adaptation.
DVD Review: This is a little flat...
Summary: 3 Stars
To start off, I am a big Discworld fan...But these movies left me wanting more. Like others have said, the cover makes it look better than it is. The animation almost looks 2D vs 3D. The animators don't use up to date techniques. "Soul Music" is better than "Wyrd Sisters", but could also use some updating. I expected more from the cover and from Pratchett. The movie does bring the series to life, which is entertaining in itself.
On the other hand, the movie "The Hogfather" is not animated and is AWESOME. I hope that any future Discworld movies are either live action or have much better animation than "Wyrd Sisters & Soul Music".
DVD Review: Mixed Bag
Summary: 2 Stars
The excellent artwork on the cover is misleading; the animation (at least as far as 'Wyrd Sisters' is concerned) is not even remotely as good as the artwork. If only!
On the positive side, the animated "film" of Wyrd Sisters is faithful to Pratchett's excellent Discworld novel of the same name. Many of the best lines are preserved and much of great dialogue is captured. That's nice, but that's about it. No kidding.
On the negative side, where do I begin? The actual characterizations themselves don't seem at all faithful to those of the book. Nanny Ogg was too pushy, too tall, appeared to have all her teeth, and was not deliciously crude enough. Magrat was much too airheaded, giggly, and astonishingly stupid--in the books she is charmingly uptight and unsure of herself, but always earnest and thoughtful in terms of her personality. She may be a "wet hen," but she never comes across as a complete blithering idiot in the books! Granny Weatherwax was perhaps closest to Pratchett's classic character, but too reserved and without any of the secretly lovable undercurrent of Granny's unbending, stern demeanor. Yeah, yeah...I know: the performers were "interpreting" the characters.
Big deal.
No matter what the voice-over actors may or may not have done, nothing could possibly save 'Wyrd Sisters' from atrociously cheap animation (not even on par with a bad 1980s Saturday morning kid's cartoon!), horrible pacing (it plods like a lame turtle), and rotten editing (herky-jerky doesn't begin to describe this mess). I mean it. 'Wyrd Sisters' absolutely bores to tears, despite the aforementioned attempts by the cast to do the best they could. It's not Pratchett's fault--that is certain.
'Soul Music', on the other hand, is simply much better, much more flowing, and worth the price of this whole DVD, particularly for die-hard fans. It really is.
There you have it: a definite mixed-bag.
DVD Review: Wyrd Sisters - The novel
Summary: 5 Stars
As are all his books, this one is no exception. It is witty, full of great insights and full of dry - tongue-in-cheek humour. It was very enjoyable. He creates great images.DVD Review: This would be great.. except
Summary: 2 Stars
I would have given this five stars, except, like all the other Pratchett movies apparently, there are NO CLOSED CAPTIONS. If you're deaf, you're out of luck. Unacceptable.
Description of Terry Pratchett's Discworld Collection (Wyrd Sisters / Soul Music)
"There is no end to the wacky wonders . . . no fantasies as consistently, inventively, mad . . . wild and wonderful." -- Asimov's Science Fiction magazine
THE WORLD IS FLAT! (But ably supported by four elephants floating through space on the back of a giant turtle.)
The Discworld, that is, as created by Terry Pratchett in his phenomenally popular sci-fi/fantasy books. Pratchett's cast of wizards and witches, dwarfs, trolls, and giants hail from familiar myths and legends, but in the Discworld they're a whole lot funnier. Two of Pratchett's best tales come alive in these animated adaptations produced for British television.
A little bit Shakespeare, a little bit Hollywood, WYRD SISTERS recounts how three hard-working witches get mixed up in a royal mess when they're handed a murdered king's baby to protect.
An epic adventure with a soundtrack that really rocks, SOUL MUSIC follows the rise of a teenage musician from obscurity to Discworld super-celebrity as a rock star who's made a deal with Death.
DVD SPECIAL FEATURES INCLUDE storyboards, interview with Terry Pratchett, Pratchett bio, character bios, and more!
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