The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

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The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

When I was about 14, I read the Hitchhiker books and saw the BBC mini-series and was captivated. Now, decades later, I watch "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" and wonder exactly what I saw in it. Yes, I suppose it IS vaguely entertaining and occasionally funny, but it was not nearly as wonderful as I remembered. And, I am not sure how much of this is because the movie was only okay and how much of it is because my tastes have changed. Regardless, I found THIS movie mildly diverting but nothing special. However, it was nice to finally see a film version whose special effects were up to the job--as the BBC series was amazingly bad (even for the 1981) when it came to replicating outer space--and especially Zaphod's extra head. Sorry to be a drip--I just didn't particularly enjoy this film and found it to be just a mildly interesting time-passer.

This movie makes no sense. Or maybe you have to read the book to understand what's happening, because the movie doesn't give any explanation. The movie starts off very promisingly with a great musical number sung by dolphins leaving the planet. It's a catchy and fun number, and I was hoping that fun and excitement would stick through the rest of the film....it didn't. After about 20 minutes, the movie became so muddled in plot and confusing. The movie was very good at dishing out interesting characters with interesting special effects and puppetry, and it had some good looking sets, but the writing explained none of this and I'm sure all the audience who hadn't read the books was scratching their heads. In the end this was a good looking film with nonsensical goings on. My rating: * 1/2 out of ****.

well its been a long wait and all for nothing, this is everything the film should not be, badly made, loud and bombastic, and mostly wrongly cast, freeman is just not right, rickmans voice is good but not in a body of a four foot round robot, also he and everyone else speaks to fast, that's one of the major problems is the pace is too fast. there is no sense of story/characters/involvement. i do not believe adams would have approved he held out all his life, ever wonder why. the director has no idea of how to construct a movie. the invented bit of trillion getting captured by the vogons is a complete waste of time. the opening song supposedly sung by the dolphins has to be one of the worst songs written. and the ending is beyond belied. there are one or two decent bits but they are far outweighed by the overall badness and misconception of this sorry enterprise