Directed by:
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 (2)
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Sci-fi comedy about a hapless human (Martin Freeman) who is saved from Earth's destruction by a buddy who explains he is an alien who is working on a guide book to the universe. (Home Box Office)
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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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Quite decent considering the possibilities. I was fascinated by “The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy” (the book, the first part), but by “The Restaurant at the End of the Universe”, Adams’ style had saturated me already. I watched the film after reading the book and there’s a lot of the book in it, all the main jokes are there, but a lot of things are different… I think it could have been done better, but I don’t know how. I don’t know how I would mix fidelity to the source material and changes in order to produce a film that would be convincing on its own. One way or another, it would surely result in some absurd hybrid that everyone would perceive differently.
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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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