Inmechon
The movie's only flaw is also a virtue: It's jammed with characters, stories, warmth and laughs.
Motompa
Go in cold, and you're likely to emerge with your blood boiling. This has to be seen to be believed.
Robert Joyner
The plot isn't so bad, but the pace of storytelling is too slow which makes people bored. Certain moments are so obvious and unnecessary for the main plot. I would've fast-forwarded those moments if it was an online streaming. The ending looks like implying a sequel, not sure if this movie will get one
Lee Eisenberg
A quarter century before Douglas Adams's (happy birthday, Douglas!) famous book became the movie that most of us probably know, BBC made this quirky miniseries based on it. True, much of the miniseries is hard for us Americans to understand, but it still works to just luxuriate in the pure wackiness of it and consider what our role in the universe really is. Parts of "The Hitch Hikers Guide to the Galaxy" do come across as a little silly - namely the whole "resistance is useless" sequence - but they probably intended it to be far out, so it's all good.Anyway, it's just a pleasure to see these people being totally outrageous in their humor. Some of those numerical coincidences still have me befuddled! But no matter, if ever I have to answer a really hard question, I'll just remember that the answer is...42. All in all, a classic. I like the movie version better, but this one is still pretty neat. Up in that great spaceship in the sky, Douglas Adams must be proud to have been known for this.
madman42q-1
This series is based on the books and radio scripts written by the late and great Douglas Adams. It covers the first two books, "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" and "The Restaurant at the End of the Universe". Although Adams has said it wasn't one of the best, it is still one of the best visual interpretations of the story of a book and how it came to affect a certain Earth man.Arthur Dent (Simon Jones), a six feet tall ape descendant, is awoken one morning to find that his home is being demolished. Not long after, the entire Earth is destroyed. Dent survives when his best friend, Ford Prefect (David Dixon), hitches a ride on a Vogon Constructor Ship and takes the Earth man with him. He is given a copy of the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, a wholly remarkable book, and they soon embark on a string of froody adventures throughout the galaxy and all the way to the end of Time itself.
Eric Kuzma (earbird)
THis movie was a very refreshing break from basically any other movie out there. I have never seen the '81 version and have never read the book so I was not sure of what to expect. I didn't even know that is was a comedy. The introduction scene set the par for what to expect. The dolphin montage was absolutely the greatest and most breathtaking dolphin sequence anywhere in film. Another factor that made this film stand out was the use of Unscripted dialogue. Again I have not read the book or anything, but this film had a satisfying and refreshing sense of unscripted dialogue that most movies should at least try to comprehend. What is unscripted dialogue you say? Well, it is where the actors or narrators or any other character in a production do not talk like they are reading a script line by line, but talk in a way that is actually more human. Just about actor in every movie ever made talks in a way that is so inhuman and robotic that is a sure giveaway that they are reading line by line from some manuscript buried somewhere. The actors acted human, the acted sporadic and made the whole atmosphere feel like every audience member was having a different experience. The cinematography was top-notch, the visual effects were stunning and having a huge cast of very imaginative and wacky characters didn't hurt either. All of Hollywood can stop whatever they are doing (especially the writers) and stop and take a note on the Hitchhiker's guide. You never know, they might actually learn something.
Matthew Brench
It is a common mistake to compare the mini series to the books, I must point out. The books, too, were really good and artfully written. However, they were not the original version of Douglas Adam's story. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy was originally a radio show. The TV mini-series, while appearing cheesy and low-budget, is actually a great joy to fans, because the actors, script, and even most of the sound effects are exactly the same as the original radio show. Hence some of the odd appearance to things, hence Trillian's hair being a different color than the book said... but whatever. Regardless of your favorite medium of the story, it is a great one. Here's to hoping that the 2005 movie will be as good...
