Can the Journey to the West movie and TV show replace reading the original book?

No, because the Journey to the West is wonderful not only in its plot, but also in the character dialog, which, the TV series on the original deletion is relatively large. Classical novels in the author generally does not take the initiative to show their own views, things are more by the mouth of the characters in the work to express, for example, watching TV shows to see a few times also do not know why the female goblins one by one want to marry the Tang Monk, but in the book but pick up the mouth of the Tang Monk that the female goblins get the Tang Monk's yang essence (or yang yuan) can also be long-lived, and eat the Tang Monk's meat is an effect. There are many similar places, the book, is never tired of reading.