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More on H2G2, Including an Early Review

Posted by timothy on from the I-hope-they-mean-malkovich's-character dept.

mwilli writes "Ain't It Cool has an early review of the upcoming Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy movie. Along with the review is a short video showing Arthur, Ford, Zaphod, and Trillian and some pictures. Also, 'I understand that in the movie, Zaphod's second head is inside his nostril. And this all ties in with the increased prominence of the Church Of Arkleseizure in the movie (a race with fifty noses, and the first to develop the aerosol deodorant before the wheel) and their leader John Malkovich, who also has a second head, and Zaphod's unwillingness to sneeze.'"

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  1. Re:Black Man (Mos Def) the hip hop thug RUINS it ! by joeslice · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Let's see.... Aliens from other galaxies, folks with random numbers of body parts growing from who knows where. Rich characters that have been killed innumerable times by the same other character. A depressed robot. A cow suggesting what portion of him is the best to eat....

    All this, and I would have to agree with you; Douglas Adams would never have had the imagination to include anyone but whites....

  2. Re:Don't complain about changes by eidolons · · Score: 4, Insightful
    You know what is a positive sign? While the reviewer hadn't read or listened to Hitchhiker's in the past, his writing reflects he caught Adam's sardonic, existentialist British humor:
    For those of you who don't know this is your basic boy meets girl, boy loses girl to president of the galaxy, boy's planet is destroyed, boy finds girl and travels through the galaxy in search of the ultimate question. You know, the usual.
    Looks like the spirit of the books is present in the movies, for the author to obviously have caught the "bug" - that's the most important thing.