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Some reviews of The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy movie.
Generally favorable, mostly misunderstood.
Re 42. Don’t know if I could sit through a movie. Series was a time filler.
Quote from review below;
It’s in a language that most Americans don’t speak (the language of British humor), a
I guess aussies and Nzers share the Brit humor. Not sure how it goes down here for the Americans. I suspect as “silly” some of the time.
Iron -
Quick note to your comment.
The book and series was a big hit in the US. They came along just as Monty Python was firmly establishing itself in the US. The rest of the books by Douglas were, and still are, just as popular.
Most of the Brit comedy series have a huge and loyal following in the US. Even ‘East Enders.’ (Of which I was not a fan - but did occasionally watch). "Dads War’ ‘To the Manor Born’, ‘Are you Being Served’, ‘Fawlty Towers’, Ab Fab, and on & on.
All well received in the US.
(ergo my ‘misunderstood’ comment. I think it reflects on the reviewer rather than the US reception)
[quote=“TainanCowboy”]Iron -Quick note to your comment.
All well received in the US.(ergo my ‘misunderstood’ comment. I think it reflects on the reviewer rather than the US reception)[/quote]
I’ll see it anyway. All sci fi is a must.
Re USA humour. I have a cousin in New York and visiting can be like an Allan Alder Mash conversation (from his side)
If I make a comment about how funny a gushing head wound was then he tends to get all blank.
So when does it open in Taiwan?
It’s one thing exporting British humour to the States, quite another exporting it to Taiwan. The biggest culture shock for me in Taiwan was when I realised that a whole room full of Taiwanese software engineers had never even heard of Douglas Adams 
It won’t open here unless it does big box office in the US. And even then it’ll take a while. I hold out very little hope of ever getting to see it in a cinema, except maybe when I’m back in NZ in a couple of months.
You mean it’s not here?!?!
Jesus Fucking H Christ!! What kind of country is this? We should start a petition, write to the president (of the galaxy).
Still, it was apparently the #1 movie in the USA this weekend, and it’s got lots of things blowing up, so it may appear here yet.
I bloody hope so.
Don’t worry. Deuce Biggalo in Europe will be here soon.
Saw it while out of the country. Sucked (IMO). Hitchhiker’s is NOT A LOVE STORY, dammit. Also, during moments of tedium, the TV dialogue, most of which had obviously been cut, kept replaying itself in my head, which was distracting (I particularly missed “Seven and a half…” “What, not till next week?”)
I loved Martin Freeman in The Office, but here he was “every man” which in this case meant that he was more “no man”, just wandering blandly through the movie in his dressing gown. Ford, Trillian and Zaphod didn’t do much for me either, although Zaphod’s relentless charm gave him a slight edge. The standout bits were the cameos - Alan Rickman was a great voice o’Marvin, Bill Nighy a charming Slartibartfast, and John Malkovich was hammy, but I always like him anyway. I found the graphics of the Book less impressive than the TV series! There is a bit of new material, most of it a subplot which to my mind was completely contrived for the sake of a nice setup at the end which was admittedly quite funny. To me the charm of the thing is in the humour and the characters, both of which I found rather watered down and replaced with special effects and limp romance.
On the whole, blech. 3/10. I realise fans will have to see it, but I think my time would have been far better spent watching the TV series again (which I hadn’t owned, but now do - yay!). YMMV.
Dammit. I’d heard bad things but I was hoping that was just ubergeeks crying foul… bugger. Well, you didn’t hear it from me, but apparently the film’s made its way out into the digital wild…
Um, I think you may have to bear in mind that I probably AM one of those ubergeeks… 
Thanks DasGrill, for ruining my day.
Uh… the digital wild is full of crooks, and things are often not what they seem… at least as far as HHGTTG files are concerned. Or so I’ve heard…
I haven’t seen the movie, or read the novel, or heard the radio show, and I really don’t know much about the whole thing. But I like to read about it anyway, and surely that qualifies me for some level of geekdom, hopefully of the something-short-of-uber class.
I especially liked what Anthony Lane in The New Yorker has to write about the movie. Bottom line - mostly Calphalon*:
[quote=“The New Yorker”]There will be two completely separate and, I might add, mutually hostile audiences for the resulting film. One will be composed of
I was so disappointed in the film, it just seemed they rushed everything and skipped the best jokes. I’m starting to like the crappy 80’s TV series better then the movie.
Nooooooooooooo!!! Not another bad movie to an otherwise brilliant story. Oh well, will probably still see it…and if it gets really bad, that’s what the towel is for. 
Well, it’s not a bad movie, I think. It’s just not as good as the source material, which, let’s face it, is genius. I think people are being way too harsh on it. It’s not great, and definitely not as good as it could’ve been, but still good. I thought Zaphod was great, even if the two heads thing was, honestly, horribly mangled, and Marvin was good too. Trillian was better than the TV version, although she was annoying in the TV series. Arthur was decent, and Ford sort of grew on me, but was still not really Ford. The last 20 or so minutes were really good, and showed what the movie could have been - well, except for the end scene - and Slartibartfast and his main section were excellent. I’m a bit disappointed by some of the excisions, and some of the more slapstick bits were stupid and felt out of place. The problem was best put in that New Yorker review:[quote]The problem is not that the film debases the book but that movies themselves are too capacious a home for such comedy, with its tea-steeped English musings and its love of bitty, tangential gags.[/quote]
Overall, I’m a little disappointed and underwhelmed, but only a little. It could’ve been better, but it was still fairly good. Not great, though.
I saw an ad in an MRT station yesterday. The movie will be here in July, apparently.