Lipwig tries to modify Pump and goes to the Golem Trust. Their opposition is the Clacks which compost of countless light towers relaying messages run by the ruthless Reacher Gilt. Groat and Stanley are the only two junior postmen. Pump, a golem, is used as his unceasing guardian and parole officer. Vetinari lets him off to head the defunct post office. He gets caught and Lord Vetinari (Charles Dance) hangs him to an inch of his life. Moist Von Lipwig (Richard Coyle) is a petty con man. More importantly, the post office is a crumbling mess. In Ankh-Morpork, there are vampires and werewolves. All in all, I thoroughly enjoyed it, and while I liked all three Sky/Pratchett adaptations this one was the best. Charles Dance, Richard Coyle and Steve Pemberton turn in great performances, and Claire Foy is also appealing and David Suchet is an interesting Gilt.
The photography does very well to capture these lovely visuals, while the music is very good and the direction credible enough. The costumes are colourful and beautiful, and the sets and scenery are also stunning and the effects in general are above average though I wasn't crazy about the Banshee. Of all the Sky/Pratchett adaptations it is the best paced overall, while the story even with the changes is compelling and the writing is playful and witty on the whole.
Going Postal could have easily had those problems but it didn't really. Not that the other two were bad in those categories, but they did have characters that weren't explored as well as they could have been or there were moments of sluggish pacing or forced dialogue. I did like Hogfather and Colour of Magic too, but what made me like Going Postal best of all was that it was more solid in especially the story, pacing and acting departments.
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