The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
When Earth is destroyed by a Vogon Demolition Fleet to make way for a new hyperspace bypass, Arthur Dent joins his friend, Ford Prefect (a researcher for an electronic reference guide called the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy), for a galactic voyage that takes them from the remains of Earth to Milliways, the Restaurant at the End of the Universe. Based on a radio play by Douglas Adams.
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This movie was fun, but the satire was dumbed down in many ways from the original radio series and ensuing novel. Many humorous interludes are chopped in half, altered in unfunny ways (like most British-to-US transports), or simply left out altogether, and the stilted acting by Mos Def detracted from what otherwise might have been a 4-Star adaptation. Still, the spirit of Douglas Adams manages to shine through. Shame he wasn't alive to see this.- vwq 632719
Although the sound effects can sometimes cover up the dialogue, this series is much closer to the books than the recent film. I loved this, and melted the tapes in my VCR as a teenager.
- Baird
This 1980s BBC production strongly resembles a classic Dr. Who series, but thanks to the wit and genius of author Douglas Adams, it's intelligent, inventive, whimsical, and frequently droll-funny if not chuckle-funny. The actors do yeomanlike work but will be memorable only to cult fans, though David Prowse has a brief scene as the bodyguard for the megarock (several orders of magnitude louder than an atomic blast) pop star Disaster Area, who is spending a year dead for tax purposes. If you are a fan of Douglas Adams, then by all means see this series. Even a newbie will chuckle at Marvin the depressed robot, the Babel fish, Vogon poetry, and so forth. Perhaps the best feature of this production is found in the excerpts from the Guide, especially the fine print displayed on the screen that is not narrated; if you can freeze frame and read this stuff, it's like an extra bonus feature. Or just read the books and be equally regaled all over again. 3 stars.
- robowriter