Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

Was expecting a disaster, so I was surprised. Enjoyed it enough to immediately re-watch. They did a pretty good job. However, I think Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul would translate to the screen much better.

I'm a big fan of the book, so I was ready to judge this movie quite harshly. Surprisingly, I thought they did a very good job converting this to film, especially considering how difficult the conversion would be with this book. What might be most impressive is the way they arranged it to either lead the way to the other books, or stand on it's own if this is the only one they make. Sam Rockwell was an excellant choice to play Zaphod, and the rest of the cast(particularly Zooey Deschanel) is good too. If you aren't already a Hitchhiker's fan, it might not be the movie for you, but it could be worth a look.

Alright, its my screwy movie of the week and I keep watching it. I'm now blurting out lines from time to time and things will only get worse if I keep going. MAGRATHEA! See, there I go again. Where's my towel?

I went into this movie expecting to be disappointed, and man was I pleasantly surprised. Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy was a strong four, bordering on five stars for me. Like others, I had read the book (and loved it) a long time ago. From the moment when I saw the image of the dolphins performing, "Goodbye, and thanks for the fish," this movie had me. From what I can remember,the movie stays very, very true to the book and included all of the really memorable stuff like the Babelfish, the Point of View gun, and the "best laid plans of mice." I thought Mos Def was the stand out acting performance as Ford, but the others were passable as well. I laughed pretty much throughout this movie - maybe it's because I have such fond memories of the book, or maybe it was because the movie was actually pretty well done. There were also just enough thought provoking concepts in the movie as to do Douglas Adams justice - I especially liked the earth engineer explaining "The odds of e... Read more

This has got to be one of the most pointless, dumb, boring movies ever. THere was no point to it. The best part was seeing a robot that sounded like professor Snape.

Worst movie I saw in 2005. Not funny, not interesting.....not cool. Reading the book may have helped (I sure hope so) or maybe I would have liked it even less. I am fairly forgiving for Sci-fi films and this film abused my good favor. Not even worth renting, wait for AMC to show it around 2030 or so.

If you haven't read the books,you've missed a treat,also the original radio series.This film was quite a good interpretation, but probably incomprehensible to anyone new to Douglas Adams

I think the current film is not quite as good as the 1981 original series directed by Alan Bell. In this film it doesn't quite capture the humour of the author of the novel by Douglas Adams. I seem to recall that the series was funnier. I find that the movie makers were more concerned with the series of events that exists in the book rather than the meaning behind it which is viewing comedy of life in a different perspective. The characters in the original series were funnier, weirder than the current actors. Plus, I think cramming a series that lasted days into a 90 minute film causes the viewer to lose some of the subtles. The monsters look great though in this recent film. It is an ok film.

Not awful, but pretty flaccid and uninspired.

I thought this was a hysterical movie. I haven't laughed that hard in a LONG time. I thought the movie stayed reasonably true to the book, though it's kind of hard to tell. (What with the way the book twists and turns it's way through the story) Marvin was perfect. They did Zaphod a little differently than I was expecting, and I don't remember him ever losing his second head, but it's been awhile since I've read the books. If you are a fan of the books, this movie is a must see!!!

If you haven't read the book(s), I wouldn't suggest watching the movie; you're going to get seriously lost. There's a LOT of explanation in the book that the movie doesn't get into necessarily. Anyway, as for the movie: I haven't read the books in their entirety for about 6 or 7 years, but from what little I do remember, the movie was fairly accurate in the little details. I had low expectations for this movie, because just how the book is structured, it would be difficult to truly capture the absurdity of it all, but honestly, it wasn't all that bad. It was cute, but not knee-slapping hilarious. Overall, it makes a good inside joke for those who liked the books.

Now when I read the books, there were 5 in the trillogy, I had already seen the TV show and it made some sense. If you have never read Douglas Adams or know nothing about the books, I can see why you would get a little lost. The fact that Mr Adams died before the movie went into production could be a cause for some concern but as a whole the movie holds fairly true to the books. So if you a fan you will at least like it, if not you might leave the theater thinking what just happened.

What is this movie about? It seems like they came up with stupid plot twists, to explain other stupid plot twists.

Ugh. Trashes Douglas Adams classic novels, forsaking the plot line and much of the books trademark, Monty Python-esq humor