The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Review

cinemablend.com ^ | 4/28/2005 | Joshua Tyler

[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.

[Dead Corpse]

As much as I want to see this one... there is one I absolutely HAVE to see...

[js1138]

The only other person I could imagine for the part is Ben Stein.

Or the original.

[altura]

would you put me on the ping list?

thanks,

[Liberal Classic]

I'd have to read the books again. Off hand I remember something about Zaphod letting out a wild whoop in major thirds when he stole the Heart of Gold.

[theophilusscribe]

Douglas Adams Quotes:

—The ships hung in the sky in much the same way that bricks don't.

—There is a theory which states that if ever anybody discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable. There is another theory which states that this has already happened.

—Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.

—Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so.

—He felt that his whole life was some kind of dream and he sometimes wondered whose it was and whether they were enjoying it.

—Nothing travels faster than the speed of light with the possible exception of bad news, which obeys its own special laws.

—The major difference between a thing that might go wrong and a thing that cannot possibly go wrong is that when a thing that cannot possibly go wrong goes wrong it usually turns out to be impossible to get at or repair.

—Space is big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the chemist's, but that's just peanuts to space.

—Capital letters were always the best way of dealing with things you didn't have a good answer to.

—All it takes to fly is to hurl yourself at the ground . . . and miss.

—A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.

`How do you feel?' he asked him.
`Like a military academy,' said Arthur, `bits of me keep passing out.'

`We're safe,' he said.
`Oh good,' said Arthur.
`We're in a small galley cabin,' said Ford, `in one of the spaceships of the Vogon Constructor Fleet.'
`Ah,' said Arthur, `this is obviously some strange usage of the word "safe" that I wasn't previously aware of.'

'You'd better be prepared for the jump into hyperspace. It's unpleasently like being drunk.'
`What's so unpleasent about being drunk?'
`You ask a glass of water.'"

`You know,' said Arthur, `it's at times like this, when I'm trapped in a Vogon airlock with a man from Betelgeuse, and about to die from asphyxiation in deep space that I really wish I'd listened to what my mother told me when I was young.'
`Why, what did she tell you?'
`I don't know, I didn't listen.'

[StoneColdGOP]

Read the book (all of them, actually) in high school and I've always wondered what a film version might be like.

[doc30]

But it looks like Zaphod has only 1 head!!!

[billbears]

Actually yes it did. If you remember in the book when Arthur said he had met Zaphod before. Arthur called him Phil (?) and said that he had met him at a party where Trillian had run off. Also BTW, the one of the first numbers they put into the Heart of Gold was the telephone number or address of the house that party was held at. I think Arthur stated that Zaphod was wearing a bird cage as a disguise on one of his heads if I'm not mistaken.

[hobson]

Verry clever! How far "west" in Texas are you?

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

I'll be there with my whole family this weekend. My kids are very keen to see it. But no more than I am. I've been a HHGTTG fan since the very first.

[timtoews5292004]

I remember that, now. It has been 3+ years since I read HitchHiker. I tried to re read it the other day, but found his style to be quite annoying this time around and quit. The last time I thought he was a very enthrawling, creative story teller.

[js1138]

Appearances can be deceiving.

[rattrap]

Yellow...

[doc30]

Posted before seeing the spoiler in this thread :)
Very cool way of doing it!

[billbears]

I can read Hitchhikers, Restaurant, and So Long over and over. But for some reason I never really have liked Life, Universe, etc. even though that is where they learn to fly.

[HisKingdomWillAbolishSinDeath]

Don't know a thing about the movie or the author. What is the point of the movie, or is it basically a cartoon, good for some laughs?

[MeanWestTexan]

Midland

[js1138]

It does get a bit stale after many exposures. I'm ready for a new vision.

I'm afraid I have tapes made off the air from the original radio play (taped twice), commercial tapes of the radio play, DVDs of the TV version, paperback copies of all the books (several copies of some) and a leatherbound copy of the complete five book trilogy.

I haven't read any of them in more than five years. But they are a part of my mind.

[MeanWestTexan]

"What is the point of the movie?"

The movie contains the answer to life, the universe, and everything.

Seriously.

[TheMightyQuinn]

Also I believe at the party where Zaphod met Trillian on Earth he had a lampshade over his second head. So I just assumed that the two heads were side-by-side.