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Garth JenningsCinematography:
Igor Jadue-LilloComposer:
Joby TalbotCast:
Martin Freeman, Sam Rockwell, Zooey Deschanel, Bill Nighy, Anna Chancellor, Warwick Davis, John Malkovich, Mos Def, Alan Rickman, Helen Mirren, Bill Bailey (more)VOD (1)
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Wonderfully wacky. Absurdly hysterical. Insanely irreverent. It's the laugh-out-loud intergalactic comedy The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy. Based on Douglas Adams' best-selling novel and filled with out-of-this world visual and special effects, this is one ride you don't want to miss. Seconds before Earth is destroyed by the nastiest creatures in the universe, mild-mannered Arthur Dent (Martin Freeman) is whisked into space by his friend, an alien in human form. And so the misadventures begin as he and fellow travellers, including a two-headed Galactic President and a paranoid android, search for answers to the mystery of life, the universe and everything. (Disney / Buena Vista)
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I have had Douglas Adams' famous book in my library for a long time, right next to the Red Dwarf series. While I revisit Red Dwarf in both TV and book format, and it still has a pleasant charm for me, I haven't been able to read the literary masterpiece that is "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" yet due to lack of time. Considering how negatively the movie affected me, it will gather dust for a while. It probably won't be months, but years, because the film left me with a desperately humorless, and even repulsive impression. The potential was there, but something went wrong; it needed a much more experienced filmmaker than the debutant Garth Jennings. Overall impression: 25%.
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I quite enjoyed watching this humorous sci-fi, and it reminded me that I'd like to read the book version sometime. Excellent casting, with the encounter of Martin Freeman and Bill Nighy in one scene being absolutely electrifying due to their acting abilities. Otherwise, it’s a clever and entertaining sci-fi film with excellent actors, including in the voice roles.
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I didn't expect that The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy would be so well adapted. And yet! The screenplay sticks to the book as lovingly as it can, and when it adds something new to it that (perhaps) Douglas Adams wouldn't have thought of, it's completely Adamsian, funny and feels natural. In short, you can tell that the film was made by people who really wanted to make it. This is also true of the actors, the absolutely amazing set design, which combines Jim Henson's puppets (the Vogons as the living) with charmingly colorful computer effects that would surely suit, say, a full-length Red Dwarf in the future (I still haven't given up hope), and the playful music. The only flaw is the completely incomprehensible failure to explain the fundamental importance of the towel. I didn't mind, as a loyal reader I would have taken at least two towels and forty-two other backups to hitchhike through the universe, but the uninitiated viewer must surely have wondered "What the hell do they keep doing with that?"
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Much more enjoyable and especially funnier than the British series from the eighties. Martin Freeman is effortlessly divine, Zooey Deschanel and Sam Rockwell are surprisingly annoying, and as a whole, it is a cautiously maturing and reliably absurd comedy that, unfortunately, was mostly unappreciated by viewers (including myself) when it came out.
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I haven’t read the book, so I liked it much more than most people (who have read it), so I will have the last laugh when I get around to reading the book, because I will relive the fun while the rest of you had to suffer the (supposedly) less funny hundred and nine minutes of the movie. Ha Ha Ha. P.S.: Marvin rocks.
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