elessardunedain I'm a big fan of Terry Pratchett novels. I've read about thirty of them and I love them. "Going Postal" was among my favorites.The film renders the plot quite faithfully most of the time. Most of the characters are very similar to their novel counterparts. Richard Coyle (whom you may know from TV comedy show "Coupling") does a very good performance as Moist von Lipwig, the new postmaster and Charles Dance (the doctor from "Alien 3") is fantastic as lord Havelock Vetinari.You haven't read the book? You get a decent comedy with many funny quips and one liners. There is some fantasy (fantastic creatures like werewolf, banshee and golems) and some magic, but most of the plot revolves around humans and their emotions: love, hate, greed, vengeance. The story is about the Post Office of Ankh Morpork. People have forgotten about Post Office in times of "Clacks" (something like telegraphy). But there are some who want Post Office running again and a lifelong conman Moist von Lipwig is conned into trying to run it.Of course the movie misses many of the novels subtle humorous details, but is fun enough to watch.

doggydog2312 So one of better recent Terry Pratchett books get converted into a miniseries/3 hours movie? As a huge Pratchett fan I should be thrilled... or should I? I'll try to keep it short. Basically, they did a more or less good job of making a random Victorianoid adventure movie with light fantasy elements. They failed at making a Discworld movie.Ankh Morpork simply isn't Ankh Morpork. Not just for the lack of dwarfs and trolls. It misses nearly all the elements that make it special. It could be nearly anywhere.Acting was generally good, with some really good performances to lift everything to a higher level, and casting was generally good as well. There are exceptions to both though.The costumes? Unsure on the golems, but the vampire and the banshee are just silly.Too many liberties have been taken with the script, Pratchett's legendary humour is rarely well replicated. The movie even gets slightly shoddy at some times (obvious unpolished cuts).I'm sure that the budget wasn't brilliant and the movie has its' own merits - it's highly approachable by those who don't know anything about Discworld. But for a fan, it'll be a disappointment on more than one level.

Kato86 ... to make all the changes? I'm not saying I was completely disappointed. It is a Discworld adaption and as such it was pretty much impossible to make something entirely bad. But apart from necessary or adequate changes such as removal of the sorting machine were all the differences really needed? The last Flashback was so... no... it is supposed to be a comedy but I don't think this was supposed to be comical. I would have much preferred the postman initiation over all the flashbacks which really didn't serve any real purpose. (I know what purpose it was supposed to serve, yet it didn't. The viewers aren't morons and neither is Moist. No need to drop an anvil.)The depiction of the golems was... good enough, I'd assume. I always imagines them otherwise but that's up to personal taste.The actors I liked quite well. I loved Coyle back when he was Jeff and he is a great Lipvig as well. Adora Belle and Vetinari also were for the mo part well depicted, except for the changes to Adora's character. Though, Gilt suffered badly from the adaption. I won't blame it on the actor, I guess he did what he was told to do. But the evil genius con man became such a pathetic little worm... No I just didn't like it.Also, I'm looking forward to what they will be doing with the Making Money adaption due to the changes in Angua's plot line. Way to make life difficult for yourself.Anyway, it's not a bad movie per se, but... I would not recommend it if you read Going Postal, or plan to do so. Then it is more sad than enjoyable, or at least to me it was, sadly.

poebelsmurfen Like it says in the title, I'm writing this review from a biased point of view. I read the book prior to watching the series, because I wanted to know the story before I saw the TV-series.And that ruined the whole TV-series for me.The series are interesting in the way that they put a face on the screen to the name of a character from a book. But that's about as far as the similarities go. Some movie adaptations of a book change a few insignificant points in order to make the movie more appealing to the masses, and also because some things don't work out as well in movie form as they do in a book form, which is fair enough. But twisting and skipping the most important plot elements all together is a trap which these TV-series have fallen into, resulting in a plain and uninteresting version of the story.As previously stated, I think the TV-series will only have a slight appeal to Discworld-fans, simply because the series put a face to the name of characters from the book. To people who do not like, or those who are not familiar to the Discworld books, I can't see any appeal to either of these groups in these TV-series.