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Home Poetry Nook Articles Reviews - Books - Movies - Music Shero of The Month How To... Recipes Shero Links Submit Mailing List Guestbook Tell A Friend Staff FAQ	The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (8 out of 10 stars) Director: Garth Jennings Genre: Book to Movie, Comedy, Space, Fantasy Reviewer: Magestar Year: 2005 Hitchhiker's, based on the book by Douglas Adams, is about Arthur Dent (Martin Freeman), an Earthman, who discovers that his friend Ford (Mos Def) is an alien and the world is about to be destroyed. He hitches a ride on a passing spacecraft and is catapulted into a quest for the meaning of life with a motley crew, including Zaphod Beeblebrox (Sam Rockwell), the president of the galaxy; Trisha McMillan (Zooey Deschanel), now called Trillian, a woman Arthur met at a costume party; Ford; and a manic depressive robot called Marvin (voiced by Alan Rickman). The movie is very enjoyable. Quite a bit of the dialogue is the same as the book. Some of the high points are Marvin, the dolphins' song, and the Guide. Marvin's bleak outlook on life, or whatever the robotic equivalent, perhaps shouldn't seem so amusing, but is does, and it even has some relevance to the plot. The dolphin's song is hilarious, and even more so if you pay attention to the lyrics. The Guide gives cheerful insight about some of the things that confuse Arthur and the watcher about the weird things he finds in space, among them a mini-lightsaber that toasts bread as it slices it. The book had no real plot, just jumbled humorous scenes in a deep space setting. The movie actually had an overall plot and made more sense than the book did. The characters are excellent and the casting was dead on. They make fun of bureaucracy by having Arthur have to fill out lots of forms to save Trillian. The character of Zaphod got to be a little irritating. His way-over-the-top stupidity and ego-mania were hard to stand, even though that was his character.
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The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (8 out of 10 stars)

Director: Garth Jennings
Genre: Book to Movie, Comedy, Space, Fantasy
Reviewer: Magestar
Year: 2005

Hitchhiker's, based on the book by Douglas Adams, is about Arthur Dent (Martin Freeman), an Earthman, who discovers that his friend Ford (Mos Def) is an alien and the world is about to be destroyed. He hitches a ride on a passing spacecraft and is catapulted into a quest for the meaning of life with a motley crew, including Zaphod Beeblebrox (Sam Rockwell), the president of the galaxy; Trisha McMillan (Zooey Deschanel), now called Trillian, a woman Arthur met at a costume party; Ford; and a manic depressive robot called Marvin (voiced by Alan Rickman).

The movie is very enjoyable. Quite a bit of the dialogue is the same as the book. Some of the high points are Marvin, the dolphins' song, and the Guide. Marvin's bleak outlook on life, or whatever the robotic equivalent, perhaps shouldn't seem so amusing, but is does, and it even has some relevance to the plot. The dolphin's song is hilarious, and even more so if you pay attention to the lyrics. The Guide gives cheerful insight about some of the things that confuse Arthur and the watcher about the weird things he finds in space, among them a mini-lightsaber that toasts bread as it slices it.

The book had no real plot, just jumbled humorous scenes in a deep space setting. The movie actually had an overall plot and made more sense than the book did.

The characters are excellent and the casting was dead on. They make fun of bureaucracy by having Arthur have to fill out lots of forms to save Trillian. The character of Zaphod got to be a little irritating. His way-over-the-top stupidity and ego-mania were hard to stand, even though that was his character.