A clunky adaptation of the first two Discworld novels. It looks cheap, from the cinematography through the costumes and production design to the visual and special effects. It's mostly miscast, it fluffs every single comic and dramatic beat, and it fails to capture the 'hitchhiker's guide to high fantasy' feel of the original books. It needed to trim out unnecessary narrative to become a picaresque, episodic tale of Rincewind and Twoflower crashing through various situations, meeting fun characters and slowly becoming friends, with a heaping of wry parody on the side. Instead, it spends far too much time on the dull Unseen University story thread and rushes past the good stuff.
Rating: Bad.
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