The hitchhickers guide to the galexy

Basically they b*ggered it up.

They seemed to have edited out anything that was funny in the original, and added bits that made little sense.

There are passages of dialog that you know from the TV or radio versions that suddenly come to a crashing halt before they hit the punchline.

Stephen Fry as The Book, great. The new Marvin, great. Martin Freeman, erm..., Martin Freeman.

The rest. Forget it :D
 
To massively paraphrase my many posts/rants on the subject of this turd of a movie:

I sat, unable to move as the end credits rolled, at the horror that had unfolded before me. A spectacular exercise in making a sow's ear out of a silk purse. The Hitch-Hikers Guide to The Galaxy is possibly one of the funniest Radio series, books and TV series ever made. The movie is about as funny as an ingrowing toenail. Not only did it have all the jokes removed, but it completely missed the point of the other formats in that the humour is all in the characters' and narrator's dialogue. Which are what the movie had so nearly mutilated beyond all recognition. A sad sad day for HHGTTG fans like me, who were frankly embarrassed by it. It makes my head hurt trying to imagine what they thought they were doing with that mess. Every version of HHGTTG has had significantly different plotline and characterization - something Adams described as them "deliberately contradicting" one another. Change I have no problem with - you'd be hard pressed to be a 'purist' of something that changes every format. The only problem I had is that the humour in Adams' work is in the smart dialogue and narrative. That could change - but to remove the majority of the intelligence and weird logic flights of fancy, and replace them with action sequences and slapstick was to miss the point of what made it different (and popular) in the first place. Change is perfectly good - even to be encouraged - unless it is a change from 'intelligent and funny' to 'dumb and boring'. HHGTTG has worked in very different (radio, TV, books - even a video-game) - it REALLY could have worked as a movie. But what we got just plain bad.

*breathe*

*breathe*
 
Good lord, no. Beeblebrox was supposed to be an arrogant prat who was dumb, but convinced of his own coolness. They went far enough down the "zany" route with Rockwell - Carey would have been even worse. :eek:
 
It sucked! I have read the book a few times and the way it ended is terrible. What about the restaurant at the end of the universe and the rest of the story? Yeah i still drink coffee from my new Marvin the paranoid android mug that came free with the overpriced double dvd (pointless) but it hardly justifies an otherwise depressing waste of
 
I have mixed feelings about the H2G2 film. Overall, I thought it was the weakest incarnation of H2G2 with Mos Def and Sam Rockwell particularly miscast. Martin Freeman was a pretty insipid Arthur as well though Zooey Deschanel and Alan Rickman were great and Stephen Fry was the obvious choice for The Book now that Peter Jones is no longer with us.

That said, there are a couple of moments of brilliance
 
Saw this tonight for the first time (on Sky Movies no less), and I wasn't expecting much but I didn't think it'd be as bad as it was. Even if you ignore all the history of H2G2, it's just a plain bad film.

Stephen Fry was quite good, but the guide sections were let down by the "flash website" graphics that were vastly inferior to the BBC's graphics of 25 years ago.
 
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