[QUOTE="AndrewR"] Aside from a slight change to the conspiracy which underlies the plot the film sticks slavishly to the source material, but a lot of it had to be trimmed to fit in to the, already lengthy, 162 minute running time. Bear in mind that Terry Gilliam said that, in his opinion, the original was only filmable as a 5-hour mini-series and you get a feel for how much has been lost.[/QUOTE] Don't worry, in a year or so the Director's Final Cut Ultimate Collector's Edition (parts one, two and three) will come out on BluRay and it *will* be five hours long.