If you’ve never picked up a Terry Pratchett book but wondered what all the fuss was about then try this wonderful film out.

The Colour of Magic is about the world’s worst wizard, Rincewind and a tourist, Twoflower who find themselves embroiled in a strange and funny adventure. Its basically like every fantasy film that you’ve ever seen and pokes fun at it.

You also get to see Terry Pratchett’s amazing world visually, the great Discworld which is on a huge turtle which houses 4 elephants and the discworld which is a flat world.

Rincewind has been at the Unseen University for decades but is still a student as he can never remember any spells. When he was young, on a bet he opened the Ocatvo, the world’s great spellbook which houses the 8 great spells. But one escaped into his brain and ever since then he can remember no other spell.

He finally gets expelled and meets Twoflower, the Discworld’s first tourist who he’s charged with protecting and making sure gets to see all the sights and sounds of the Capital City. Twoflower is a cheerful soul who sees the world through rose tinted spectacles, but who is also funny and compassionate.

Together they encounter Trolls, Dragons, Wizards and the end of the Discworld and also Death which follows Rincewind impatiently as he refuses to die.

I laughed, I cried and I wondered at this fantastically funny series which is split into two episodes.

Sean Astin of Lord of the Rings is hilarious as the clueless Twoflower and David Jason is just genius as Rincewind. But the star of the series is the Luggage which follows its Master Twoflower wherever he is and travels on legs!

5 out of 5 stars.

Random fact: Both Sean Astin (Twoflower) and Sir David Jason (Rincewind) are long-term Pratchett fans. Jason named The Colour of Magic as his choice of favourite book of all time in the BBC’s Big Read survey.

The Colour Of Magic [DVD] [2008]