The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

Quite decent considering the possibilities. I was fascinated by “The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy” (the book, the first part), but by “The Restaurant at the End of the Universe”, Adams’ style had saturated me already. I watched the film after reading the book and there’s a lot of the book in it, all the main jokes are there, but a lot of things are different… I think it could have been done better, but I don’t know how. I don’t know how I would mix fidelity to the source material and changes in order to produce a film that would be convincing on its own. One way or another, it would surely result in some absurd hybrid that everyone would perceive differently. (29/07/2011)

I have had Douglas Adams' famous book in my library for a long time, right next to the Red Dwarf series. While I revisit Red Dwarf in both TV and book format, and it still has a pleasant charm for me, I haven't been able to read the literary masterpiece that is "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" yet due to lack of time. Considering how negatively the movie affected me, it will gather dust for a while. It probably won't be months, but years, because the film left me with a desperately humorless, and even repulsive impression. The potential was there, but something went wrong; it needed a much more experienced filmmaker than the debutant Garth Jennings. Overall impression: 25%. (15/03/2017)

I haven’t read the book, so I liked it much more than most people (who have read it), so I will have the last laugh when I get around to reading the book, because I will relive the fun while the rest of you had to suffer the (supposedly) less funny hundred and nine minutes of the movie. Ha Ha Ha. P.S.: Marvin rocks. (18/01/2013)

I really enjoyed this humorous sci-fi and it reminded me that I would like to read the book version sometime. Excellent cast, as the meeting of Martin Freeman and Bill Nighy in one scene was absolutely electrifying thanks to their acting abilities. Otherwise, it is a clever and entertaining sci-fi with excellent actors, even in voice roles. (27/11/2014)

Much more enjoyable and especially funnier than the British series from the eighties. Marvin is effortlessly divine, Zooey or Rockwell a bit surprisingly annoying, and as a whole, it is a cautiously maturing and reliably absurd comedy that, unfortunately, was mostly unappreciated by viewers (including myself) at the time of its creation. (13/08/2006)