the hitchhikers guide to the galaxy review

Picture courtesy of Douglas.

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Value for Money	4/10
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Overall Rating	5.1/10

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By LSDT on 2nd May 2005

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LSDT's recommendation

Good Points

I'm struggling to find one.

Bad Points

If you enjoyed the works of the late great Douglas Adams you'll feel greatly and deeply offended by this God awful slap in the face of a rewrite. Rewrite is the word and every single deviation from the original was for the worse and frankly Marvin doesn't hold a candle to how any of us that loved the late great Douglas Adams feels about this movie.

General Comments

The script for The Hitchhikers Guide To The Galaxy was written with an American audience in mind, and even they would hate it. None of the brain slapping hysterical laugh-out-loud moments were recaptured and any text that closely resembled the original was truncated to the point of where a forced smile was often the kindest one could say for the film.
If ever someone was to do this to the Bible or Koran an almighty religious war would break out and end the Earth.
Any fan of the original works will be mystified at the progression of the tale, the lack of spoonfed genius and deep tangential musings bordering on hysterical insanity; that was Adams n che, is the major glaring omission from this production.
To try and portray quite how alien this movie is to the original work, it seems the rewrite here starts off and sticks to the idea that somehow this story was all about the unrequited and eventually achieved love between Arthur Dent and Trillian.
This film is a love story.
Without any of the depth, humour, deviation into the realms of insane genius or the characteristically structured & deeply involving musings of existentialism. Nor does it reflect the visionary mind of Adams with the concept of the internet 1/4 of a century before it's explosion into our collective consciousness. Too many criticisms and almost nothing to offset this by way of even a slight nod in honour of DG.
The final shot of the spaceship (mutating into various objects, varying from the organic to random inaminate object finally finishing with a brief flash of the late great DG himself only further left the regular fan as depressed as Marvin could ever be) as it would during its infinite probability hyperdrive routine... the way this very concept was presented in the movie was confusing and seemingly utterly pointless as it was unfunny.

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