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The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Review
cinemablend.com ^ | 4/28/2005 | Joshua Tyler

Posted on 04/28/2005 10:44:46 AM PDT by js1138

Starring: Martin Freeman, Sam Rockwell, Mos Def, Zooey Deschanel, Bill Nighy, Anna Chancellor, John Malkovich, Warwick Davis, Alan Rickman (voice), Stephen Fry (voice)

It opens with a perfectly choreographed dolphin musical number, and ends with the disembodied head of deceased author Douglas Adams. This is the long awaited adaptation of his novel, “The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy,” and as the dolphins flawlessly perform their rendition of “So Long and Thanks for All the Fish” you’ll realize you’re in for one hell of a ride. Don’t panic. It only gets a little weirder.

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TOPICS: TV/Movies
KEYWORDS: 1solongconstantine; 2andthanx4allthefish; 42; galaxy; guide; hitchhiker; hitchhikersguide; moviereview; movies; scifi
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To: mewzilla

In addition to 42, the movie answers the oft neglected question of, "what's the last thing to go through a whale's mind?" How ironic that the answer would be a question. Well, on Deep Thought, maybe it is just the flippy thing.

221 posted on 05/02/2005 9:45:00 AM PDT by LTCJ
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To: HairOfTheDog

"If/when you do go, tell me this... do you think the Zaphod B. actor is mimicking GWB in his language... I found it unmistakable that he was doing a GWB impersonation, not with his ~look~ obviously, but with the cadence of his language."

No, I think you've only developed a case of thin skin. He talks like an amalgamation of Jeff Foxworthy and the other 'redneck joke' comics mixed in equal parts with frantic coked-up L.A. movie agent.

I thought the big Z was done VERY well; the sort of guy who everyone reacts instinctively well to, but whom everyone would be appalled by if they took 30 seconds to consider him.

If you want a parallel in modern politics, it's not W, but his predecessor. :)


222 posted on 05/02/2005 10:21:19 AM PDT by No.6 ((www.fourthfightergroup.com))
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To: No.6
No, I think you've only developed a case of thin skin.

You read me wrong.... I thoroughly enjoyed his performance, no offense at all, and I still think he reminded me of W. Playing it like W is ~funny~ not offensive to me.

223 posted on 05/02/2005 10:27:19 AM PDT by HairOfTheDog (I'd rather be happy than right...)
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To: js1138
I'm a woman who prefers special effects and loud, color blasts instead of tearjerkers and such. Except for those animes, which I know little about, we're pretty movie-compatible it seems.
224 posted on 05/02/2005 10:45:17 AM PDT by Lady Jag (Googolplex Star Thinker of the Seventh Galaxy of Light and Ingenuity)
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To: Lady Jag

You should rent "spirited Away". You have nothing to lose but $4. A dollar says you will be bug-eyed wondering what will happen next.


225 posted on 05/02/2005 11:01:33 AM PDT by js1138 (e unum pluribus)
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To: js1138

I'll keep an eye out for it. I haven't watched an animated movie for years.


226 posted on 05/02/2005 11:53:55 AM PDT by Lady Jag (Googolplex Star Thinker of the Seventh Galaxy of Light and Ingenuity)
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To: BaBaStooey
Zooey Deschanel!!!!!!

*sigh*

227 posted on 05/02/2005 11:56:41 AM PDT by null and void (...that no man, rich or poor, free or bond, shall buy or sell, save he that has the chip...)
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To: timtoews5292004
he DOES have two heads. One of them busts out from his chest.

Or more accurately, up from his chest...

228 posted on 05/02/2005 11:58:12 AM PDT by null and void (...that no man, rich or poor, free or bond, shall buy or sell, save he that has the chip...)
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To: timtoews5292004

Although you do get extra points for using busts and chest in the same sentence...


229 posted on 05/02/2005 11:59:03 AM PDT by null and void (...that no man, rich or poor, free or bond, shall buy or sell, save he that has the chip...)
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To: js1138
Adams was quite cynical

I should be an author.

230 posted on 05/02/2005 12:00:21 PM PDT by Lazamataz (Not Elected Pope Since 4/19/2005.)
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To: Lazamataz

You are. But unfortunately FR doesn't pay much. Cheaper than Vantge, though, and reaches a bigger audience.


231 posted on 05/02/2005 12:04:10 PM PDT by js1138 (e unum pluribus)
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To: null and void

every once in a while you get the chance to do something great like that, and when the opportunity arises, you just have to take it.

That said, I saw the movie friday night. I enjoyed it. I forgot just how subtle and zany Adams was with his humor, at the same time. The visuals in this motion picture were amazing, especially during the sequence with slartibartfast at the "planet factory."

I wouldn't say Rockwell was trying to do GW in his Beeblebrox role. I was thinking more along the lines of a used car salesman/agent mixed with the smarm of Bill Clinton.


232 posted on 05/02/2005 12:07:14 PM PDT by timtoews5292004
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To: Lazamataz

You could be Author Dent...


233 posted on 05/02/2005 12:07:25 PM PDT by null and void (...that no man, rich or poor, free or bond, shall buy or sell, save he that has the chip...)
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To: js1138
I really enjoyed the movie and I plan on going back to watch it again next week. It's funny, offbeat and a breath of fresh air into the staleness in the movie world at the moment.
So long Garth Jennings, and thanks for all the fish!
234 posted on 05/02/2005 12:08:04 PM PDT by maquiladora
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To: timtoews5292004

Some ignoramus brought and his brother brought their two boys into the movie with them. They were there in their pajamas and cowboy boots. One of them had a mohawk haircut. Apparently that is all the rage in KY elementary schools these days. They were neither one older than 5 years of age, and didnt understand a thing about the movie. One of them actually asked, as the movie started "Is this a true story, did all this really happen, dad?"

You shouldn't bring kids who can't read yet to a movie based around a book. (The Polar Express being the one exception to that rule that I've found).


235 posted on 05/02/2005 12:11:15 PM PDT by timtoews5292004
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To: timtoews5292004

I thought the movie was rather like Vogon poetry.

I liked it...


236 posted on 05/02/2005 12:13:07 PM PDT by null and void (...that no man, rich or poor, free or bond, shall buy or sell, save he that has the chip...)
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To: js1138

I disagree. You can see the cynicism ALL over the place in that movie. The vogons show his distaste for government, very clearly. The church of the white hankey, for organized religion. Its very clear.


237 posted on 05/02/2005 12:16:02 PM PDT by timtoews5292004
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To: null and void

I agree. I think she must have it in her contract that she's got a shower scene in every movie she's in. She had one in ELF, too.


238 posted on 05/02/2005 12:19:01 PM PDT by timtoews5292004
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To: null and void

If FR had a custom planet, it would be a pajamahedron.


239 posted on 05/02/2005 12:45:28 PM PDT by js1138 (e unum pluribus)
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To: js1138

Indeed!


240 posted on 05/02/2005 12:57:23 PM PDT by null and void (...that no man, rich or poor, free or bond, shall buy or sell, save he that has the chip...)
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