Bill Nighy, Martin Freeman, Mos Def
Earthman Arthur Dent is having a very bad day. His house is about to be bulldozed, he discovers that his best friend is an alien and to top things off, Planet Earth is about to be demolished to make w...( read more
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DVD Release Date: September 13, 2005
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November 13, 2009the movie looks great, the cast is pretty funny aswell, the story not that great but it was different. I enjoyed it
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September 22, 2009An insult! Watch the TV version or listen to the radio version or read the fucking book but don?t tell me this is a good adapt because it?s not, its rubbish! Douglas Adams must be spinning!
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June 20, 2009Hmmmm some really nice ideas are played out well here and the effects are neat in places but overall this is a slightly poor effort to call Douglas Adams work on film. They are trying too hard to make it funny and it seems they are trying to force the concept across, the BBC orig...( read more)
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November 16, 2008"What's this? What's this? This is... Nothing, yeah, we're gonna die."
Watching The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy is like being chatted up by an extremely witty ADD kid. It zips from one topic to another at a machine-gun pace, maintaining its narrative by the ve...( read more) -
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November 22, 2009Can't beat the book, but when you have this kind of material to work with it's just impossible to not get a funny film out of it. And they did. A couple of new additions were questionable, the lovestories especially, but a couple were absolutely brilliant. I adored the idea that ...( read more)
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November 17, 2009Creative, Imaginative, and doesn't rely on CGI to tell a story. Martin Freeman is great as the "everyman" thrown into a much larger universe. Sam Rockwell is also wonderfully over the top as the president of the universe who holds himself hostage. Zooey Deschanel is good as alway...( read more)
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November 7, 2009Based on the book series by Douglas Adams,is one of the most bizarre & spectacular movies i've ever watched!An alternative way to "hard" laugh with the genious depressed robot!A fascinating film in the risky "zone" of english humour!
Critic Reviews
May 6, 2005
Peter Travers, Rolling Stone
May 2, 2005
Anthony Lane, The New Yorker
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. full review
April 29, 2005
Stephanie Zacharek, Salon.com
[The movie] captures the quizzical, quasi-spiritual nature of [Adams'] book and manages to nail a surprising number of his dry little jokes, even some that you think could work only on the page. full review
April 29, 2005
Amy Biancolli, Houston Chronicle
A beautifully odd duck and a faithful-in-spirit adaptation of Douglas Adams' iconic sci-fi ramble. full review
April 29, 2005
Liam Lacey, Globe and Mail
By the film's final third, you begin to wonder when, or if, it is going to reach a conclusion. full review
April 29, 2005
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times
Like The Life Aquatic With Steve Zissou, but with much less visual charm, it is a conceit with little to be conceited about. full review
April 28, 2005
David Edelstein, Slate
An extremely pleasant, consistently amusing diversion that is never as uproarious as you might hope. full review
April 28, 2005
Moira MacDonald, Seattle Times
Purists may miss their favorite bits or raise eyebrows over the somewhat altered ending, but the book's goofball -- and very British -- humor survives intact. full review
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December 2, 2008This is my favorite movie of all time, and i am convinced that i am the only person who feels this way. but this movie is brilliant. in my opinion it was made not to be loved the first time you watch it. very few people think this movie is funny the first time they see it nor do they understand it. i have seen this movie literally 40 or more times and i find it more enjoyable every time. there are a countless number of times in this movie that are only funny when u fully understand, and know, the movie inside and out. i love this movie, not another movie like it.
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August 14, 2008Haha! Right on, kzn75! The vast majority of people don't get Douglas Adam's humor. Then again, the vast majority of people are morons (a.k.a. salt of the earth).
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February 4, 2008To those who this film does not make sense... They don`t make sense... It will be more honest to say "I did not understand it" contact me if you want and I will try to explain what make sense to me about this film, I will try... and... some times, some things .. just don't have to make SENSE''' (the sense you expect from everything)...
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November 16, 2007From what I've heard and what I've seen in previews, I can see why they waited until Douglas Adams was dead before making this. :((
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September 6, 2007Did anybody below gradgiate high school? It's spelled S-E-N-S-E. The last guy I will pardon...as i got his humor. Before you morons comment, I know how to spell graduate.
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July 4, 2007Hey if anyone has read any of the books and likes them please type a comment on my page.
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March 9, 2007hehe..
This movie didn't really make much sence to me, but it was Frigen hallarious.. LOL
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