The colour of magic

Yesterday Cate and I started watching the first episode of this 2-episode film-adaptation of Terry Pratchett's novels "The colour of magic" and "The light fantastic".

After having seen the Hogfather (the first Pratchett novel to be moviefied (is that a word?)), I had high hopes for this one. (As in "I hope it's a lot better than the Hogfather!")
As "The colour of magic" and "The light fantastic" are the first two Discworld novels in the series, it would be important for the movie adaptation that the whole impression, the complete picture you get from the Discworld and it's inhabitants, was painted in an witty, describing and somehow accurate way...
After having seen episode 1, I have to admit I was pleasantly surprised. Rincewind, Death, Twoflower, The Unseen University, ... it's all there, and it's there in detail! And to my great satisfaction, even Cate liked it!
If you'd like to see Inspector Frost (David Jason) play an anxious, skilless wizzard (yes, with double z), Samwise Ganmgee (Sean Astin) the first (and maybe last) tourist the Discworld's ever known, Tim Curry (Tim Curry) as a superb, power-mad wizard, and many many more great actors, (or if you simply love the novels of the Discworld, it's a must), go buy this movie!