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hitchiker's guide to the galazy ... stay away.

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I ordered it on pay-per-view more out of curiosity than with any specific knowledge about the movie, or the book upon which it is based.
What an aimless, sophmoric waste of time! Rubbery Jim Henson costumes make a race of aliens who destroy the earth though bureaucratic indiffence (believe me, it may sound interesting, but the premise is handled so haplessly and with such an utter lack of imagination that the film collapes into a yawn after about 20 minutes); witless flat jokes and gags masquerade as some kind of pert social comment that might impress some of the middle schoolers; and the casting and acting is pitiable (by the way, what is John Malkovitch doing in this movie?).
It's all supposed to be very rompy and campy -- and there is plenty of romp, but they should have romped on the script before the put it into production. And camp is high comedy in comparision to the foolish fare served in this turkey dinner. Watch it on the sofa after your real thanksgiving dinner -- it'll hasten the traditional after meal snooze quicker than a gallon of fortified apple cider. And if you happen NOT to fall asleep, you have my condolences.

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I tried it last night and fell asleep - Jon L 15:34:57 11/07/05 (0)
But I did have a nice fatty dinner to blame the snooze on. I do plan to finish viewing it, just for completeness sake.
Tell me about it! One of the worst films of the past few years. - EdM 06:43:59 11/07/05 (4)
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- Bummer, loved the book, adored the TV show, and enjoyed the radio version. ..nt - late 15:01:02 11/07/05 (3)
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  - The BBC TV show was great... - PhilNYC 11:48:43 11/08/05 (1)
    ...and a large part of the reason I couldn't stand the movie version. The TV show was 13 30-minute episodes that did a great job at capturing the book. It's available on DVD, and definitely worth checking out...
    - It was wonderful and they prob had 1% of the budget the movie had ..nt - late 17:47:02 11/09/05 (0)
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  - Re: Bummer, loved the book, adored the TV show, and enjoyed the radio version. ..nt - Bersani 11:29:03 11/08/05 (0)
    The Infocom game in the mid-80's, conceived in collaboration with Adams was one of their best... on par with Zork if not better. I still recall one of the goals was to simultaneously possess, "tea and no tea."
    - You can play a Java version here (Open in New Window)

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