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BBC Reviews Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
An anonymous reader writes "Now that the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy has made its debut in London, reviews are now beginning to trickle in. The BBC's review can be summed up in one sentence: '... somewhere in the production process the crew has lost sight of the fundamental aspect of the books - they were immensely funny."
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I could not believe how awful this film was. The story has almost nothing to do with previous versions of Hitchhiker's Guide and just rambles all over the place, but not in any humorous or interesting or entertaining or enjoyable way.
All the changes from the book and TV show and radio play seem to have been made for no reason and not only do they not add anything, they actually make it worse.
The acting is uniformly terrible, except for Bill Nighy, and some of the design work is embarrassing, although the special effects are impressive.
But the main problem with this film is that it is meant to be a comedy and it's just not funny at all. All the great comedy that was in the radio play and recreated in the books and recreated in the TV show and recreated (again) in the computer game has gone. All that is left is a lot of people falling over and getting slapped in the face and I don't remember any of that from the previous versions.
Nothing is explained. They don't even explain why the story stops for 20 minutes in the middle of the film while John Malkovich wanders around and talks for a bit. Was that from a different movie? It seemed to have no connection with the rest of the film.
As a long-time fan of Hitch-Hikers Guide, who has enjoyed all the previous versions, I thought this movie was just dreadful, and I couldn't even enjoy it as a movie on its own because it was so badly made. Douglas Adams deserves better than this. I hope he was right in his atheist belief because it would be awful if he could look down from heaven and see what these people have done in his name.
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"everything from handheld computing to existentialism to musings on cricket and maths."
nice to know someone is editing for the BBC.
Jesus, a guy named "Shakezula" complaining about anything being "dumb'd down" is strange. And I wonder how one dumb's down timing.
that movie looks lame imho.
The book was ok I guess, when I was like 7 years old.
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Your definition of the word minority seems to be slanted.
I'd say the fan base for H2G2 is a minority in itself. Let alone, those who actually found it amusing. Perhaps you should change your scope of the world to include more than the Slashdot community.