Review of Soul Music

I'm a huge fan of Sir Pterry having read and finished all his books multiple times. That is with the sole exception of Raising Steam. I got to the last chapter and I put the book away. I couldn't bear to finish it knowing it was the last book he wrote and it would be the last Discworld book we'd ever really see. As such there's still something of his out there to look forward to.

So in my search for things related to Sir Pterry and the discworld I came across one of my favorite novels, "Soul Music" but as a cartoon. It starred Christopher Lee as Death and had that iconic shot of Death playing the guitar on the cover. How could I resist something that looked, and sounded, so awesome.

And that was the biggest problem. From that point on, the rest was a huge let down. It just wasn't what I was looking for. I felt the animation was too cheap and they repeated frames, an obvious cost cutting measure, too often. Then of course there was the voices. Very few of them worked with the exception of the excellent Christopher Lee. The character designs were hit and miss. None of them really seemed to work for me. They were a little too simplistic and I was just left wanting more.

It was a decent attempt at bringing this to a wider audience but it just lacked that magic that I was looking for.