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Summary: Soul Music is a hit!
Review: Terry Pratchett's Discworld novels make for fantastic transition to animated film. Wyrd Sisters was the first novel to see a film version. It is excellent and still my favorite. Soul Music is very good and worth the purchase for content alone. The only drawback to the DVD, is that the story is broken into episodes. This is cute for nostalgia and showing the film in its broadcast version, but they should have included the film without the episode chapters. It's a drag to go through the titles and the recap of the prior episodes 7 different times. Argh.So for that silliness, I gave it only 4 stars. It's still very fun.
Rating: 
Summary: Even better than Wyrd Sisters
Review: The creators of the two Pratchett cartoons have done a splendid job of transferring Pratchett's works to the screen. Not only have they preserved the character of the original, but by adding original music, voice characterisation, and a lot of visual references to the Rock scene, they have, in some respects, enhanced it. For an example of what I mean, just watch and listen to Lias/Cliff the troll. Read the book first, though.
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Summary: Not the best of Pratchett, anyway
Review: The interpretation of the story just seemed a little flat. Jokes and insight and the whole story itself didn't seem, to me, to transfer very well from the book to the screen. However, I remember when reading this one, I wasn't too excited about it, either. I got this one and "Wyrd Sisters" for Xmas; I recommend the latter if you are looking for good Pratchett on American available video.
Story: Death is trying to forget. So he joins the foreign legion and gets wasted. Susan, his granddaughter takes over and falls for an "Elfish" dude. Rock and Roll comes to Ankh-Morpork... The Death scenes are good; other than that, I'd skip it.
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Summary: A Fanatic Will Forgive the Animation
Review: The story has remained faithful with the book--even letting Death wail on the guitar! The animation is no Disney cartoon series nor is it as smooth as "The Flight of Dragons" but the truth of the matter is that a devoted reader could forego these minor details because it IS a good story that will make you laugh that you will, as I paraphrase the author: Be a prime candidate for the rubber room with the white jacket with the optional canvass sleeves. I have to agree with the writer when he says that his job is to write the books and it is our jobs to fill in the soundtrack and the special effects all in our heads. Surely, there will definitely be a better way of presenting Discworld. It is just a great relief just to finally see a really good book in moving pictures (and I hope that pun makes it into a third animation).
Rating:
Summary: A Fanatic Will Forgive the Animation
Review: The story has remained faithful with the book--even letting Death wail on the guitar! The animation is no Disney cartoon series nor is it as smooth as "The Flight of Dragons" but the truth of the matter is that a devoted reader could forego these minor details because it IS a good story that will make you laugh that you will, as I paraphrase the author: Be a prime candidate for the rubber room with the white jacket with the optional canvass sleeves. I have to agree with the writer when he says that his job is to write the books and it is our jobs to fill in the soundtrack and the special effects all in our heads. Surely, there will definitely be a better way of presenting Discworld. It is just a great relief just to finally see a really good book in moving pictures (and I hope that pun makes it into a third animation).
Rating: 
Summary: Utterly lousy
Review: This is the animated version of the discworld book 'soul music'. It will make more sense if you've read the book (not that discworld ever makes sense, it's just internally consistant, and consistantly inconsistant). But if you've read the book you'll spot the things they had to leave out for space: like all the blues brothers jokes (no 'we're on a mission for Glod') The animations not bad and the sound track is pretty good too. But if you're hoping that the animated Susan resembles the girl with the great figure on the cover of the Harper Priam published version of the book, you'll be disappointed. On the other hand, I now get the joke about Buddy looking Elvish. It was fun to watch but having read the book several times it seemed a little short for all the things they had to leave out.
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Summary: It rocks (of course) and occasionally rolls
Review: This is the animated version of the discworld book 'soul music'. It will make more sense if you've read the book (not that discworld ever makes sense, it's just internally consistant, and consistantly inconsistant). But if you've read the book you'll spot the things they had to leave out for space: like all the blues brothers jokes (no 'we're on a mission for Glod') The animations not bad and the sound track is pretty good too. But if you're hoping that the animated Susan resembles the girl with the great figure on the cover of the Harper Priam published version of the book, you'll be disappointed. On the other hand, I now get the joke about Buddy looking Elvish. It was fun to watch but having read the book several times it seemed a little short for all the things they had to leave out.
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Summary: Well worth the wait!
Review: This is the coolest animation rendition of any story I've read! The voice acting leaves nothing to be desired (yes, Death will blow you away), the plot flows more smoothly than the book (in fact it's more understandable than the book). The animation, while not exactly disney-standard, does the job of telling the story perfectly well. Just don't buy it from marketsales, I bought it there and waited some 30 days for it to arrive (and they only found out it's on backorder after I emailed them), but in the end it's well worth the wait!
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Summary: A great story,but... / Uma grande história,mas...
Review: uh...well, the animation techniques, the voices, the script, the soundtrack,are all brilliant. But the characters' designs (at least 30% of them) seems like flash drawings... fortunatelly, the other 70% of the characters and the background drawings are fine. good. Excelsior!
i've rated it 4 stars, so i can say it's a pretty great discworld story, that no one should miss!
they're all there: deat¨& susan, death of rats, albert, "valhalla" women, the librarian, arch- chancellor Ridcully, nobby, sgt.colon and the band with rocks in!!!...
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Summary: Long Live Music With Rocks In!
Review: While this is not a PERFECT rendition of "Soul Music"--one of my very favourite Discworld books, ever--it's still pretty fun. First, to get it out of the way--the bad news. Some of the best running gags, such as the rock-fan wizards and the punk/garage band that kept changing its name, are shortened down considerably for time purposes. I didn't like the way they drew the wizards. And well, this really couldn't be helped, but things that were supposed to be just _feelings_ in the book, were translated into rather cheesy special effects. (Like the "energy" coming out of Imp's guitar and coursing through his body, for example.) But I guess that's the only way you CAN let the audience know what's going on, in a visual medium. It seemed more realistic/less cheesy in print, though. I should also mention that since this is probably my VERY favourite Discworld novel, I was judging it a little more closely than I might have otherwise. Other people might react differently. Now, the GOOD! This cartoon miniseries does stay pretty dang close to the actual plot of the book--using original dialogue whenever it can, even. It includes the types of details and scenes that MOST movies-based-off-of-books would have clipped out. Susan and Imp the bard are especially well-drawn, I thought, and DEATH is, of course, just the way he should be. Also, the Music With Rocks In songs are _catchy_! Overall, this video is an enjoyable time. It'll make people who _aren't_ familiar with Discworld yet want to learn more--and those of us who are already fans of those hilariously funny fantasy books should enjoy the chance to _see_ one of them on the screen.
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