Like I said about greencapt's friend, if you're interested, you should really watch the series first. In my opinion, it's better than the movie, and it makes the movie mean so much more, even though it's great on its own. And it's not as though watching the series is a huge commitment. Fourteen episodes. If the pilot was an hour and a half, and the other thirteen were about fourty-five minutes (this is running time excluding commercials), the total amount of time spend would be eleven hours and fifteen minutes... to watch an entire series of television. Well worth your time.