“Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy” film review
Posted on April 12, 2005
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MJ Simpson over at Planet Magrathea (that should give you an idea of just how big an HGttG geek he is, if you know anything about it at all) has reviewed a pre-release of the new Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy movie and found it wanting. Really wanting. In fact, he’s single-handedly managed to make me shun the pending release and want to head out and re-rent the BBC television version instead (which was, in it’s cheap no-budget way, an absolutely brilliant work):
…this film, I’m very sorry to report, is bad.
Really bad. You just won’t believe how vastly, staggeringly, jaw-droppingly bad it is. I mean, you might think that The Phantom Menace was a hopelessly misguided attempt to reinvent a much-loved franchise by people who, though well-intentioned, completely failed to understand what made the original popular - but that’s just peanuts to the Hitchhiker’s movie. Listen.
He then goes on to say some very not-nice things about the film while dissecting it scene by scene, intermingling some extremely interesting insights about the books and Douglas Adams himself into it all.
Oh, and by the way: that link to his review goes to the very long one with all the spoilers in it. There’s also a shorter, no-spoilers version apparently, but whatever.
Of course if you’ve read the book or seen the TV version then there won’t be any spoilers with there, since you’ve already spoiled it for yourself? And if you haven’t then you really ought to read this review to get an idea of what you’ll be missing when you don’t go to see this film, send the author a ‘thank you’ email, wander off down to the nearest Chapters, and buy all four books in one swift go.
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