The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (2005)

Posted : 1 year, 3 months ago at Jul 26 18:29

This was a movie I've been looking forward to for a very long time. My family used to listen to it every night when it was on NPR, and I've always adored it. I have two things to say before I go on to the spoilerish stuff. One is that it was fabulous, and if you like the series in any form, you should go see it. The other is that Douglas Adams would have loved it. And that, beyond anything else, is a great reason to see the film. Let's start with what I wanted from this movie. I didn't expect a faithful recreation of either radio-play or book, as both end on cliffhangers, and wouldn't work well for a movie. I did expect most of the same basic storyline. Man wakes up to find house about to be smashed down, friend comes to save him, house gets smashed, Earth gets blown up, he and friend a...Read more

Rating : 7/10

Posted : 1 year, 8 months ago at Mar 17 7:01

One of the funniest movies I know.

Of course the book ist better, you can't expect that a movie has all the small jokes in it that a book has.

The best thing would be to watch the movie and read all the books(there are five, so it takes a while ;)).
So happy reading!

Rating : 7/10

Posted : 2 years ago at Nov 15 23:34

So, my first, and most important comment would be to just forget the movie and read the book instead. I don't think the movie makers did a bad job with it--they definitely tried hard to keep the movie in the right spirit as the book, but I think the movie was sort of doomed to...not succeed (I don't want to say fail b/c that's just too strong). Basically, as one of my friends pointed out earlier today, Hitchhiker's Guide doesn't really have a lot of plot. What holds the book together is sheer randomness/hilarity. A lot of the details that made the book work just plain had to be cut out for the movie. So basically, the movie ended up just being a set of random scenes--without the "glue" that held everything together in the book. All that being said, Alan Rickman is just fant...Read more

Rating : 6/10

Posted : 2 years, 2 months ago at Sep 18 1:04

Its actually alright, better than I thought it would be to say the least.

Rating : 6/10