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| Arthur Dent, the hero of this tale, is the everyman—so preoccupied by the trivialities of life that when the end comes, he is caught completely unaware. Never mind that plans for the demolition of his house have been on display for a year, and that plans for the destruction of Earth itself have been available for centuries. |
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Review c ontiued on Maurice's blog
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| CREDITS |
| Directed
by Garth Jennings
Book
by Douglas Adams
Screenplay by Douglas Adams and Karey Kirkpatrick
 Cast
(in credits order)
Martin Freeman .... Arthur Dent
Sam Rockwell .... Zaphod Beeblebrox
Mos Def .... Ford Prefect
Zooey Deschanel .... Tricia McMillan
Bill Nighy .... Slartibartfast
Anna Chancellor .... Questular Rontok
John Malkovich .... Humma Kavula
Warwick Davis .... Marvin the Paranoid Android
Alan Rickman .... Marvin the Paranoid Android (voice)
Stephen Fry .... The Book (voice)
Bill Bailey .... The Whale (voice)
Barry Dowden .... Stunt Builder
John Gomez .... TV News Reporter
Richard Griffiths .... Jeltz, Vogon Captain (voice)
Brian Herring .... Vogon Minion
Dominique Jackson .... Fook
Mark Jefferis .... Vogon High Command
Simon Jones .... Magrathean Announcer
William Todd Jones .... Vogon Captain
Thomas Lennon .... Eddie the Computer (voice)
Ian McNeice .... Vogon Kwaltz (voice)
Helen Mirren .... Deep Thought (voice)
Steve Pemberton .... Mr. Prosser
Katherine Smee .... Vogon
Jack Stanley .... Lunkwill
Produced
by
Douglas Adams .... executive producer (posthumous credit)
Todd Arnow .... co-producer
Gary Barber .... producer
Roger Birnbaum .... producer
Derek Evans .... executive producer
Jonathan Glickman .... producer
Nick Goldsmith .... producer
Caroline Hewitt .... co-producer
Jay Roach .... producer
Robbie Stamp .... executive producer
Original
Music by Joby Talbot
Cinematography by Igor Jadue-Lillo
Film Editing by Niven Howie
MPAA: Rated PG for thematic
elements, action and mild language.
Runtime: USA:110 min
For rating reasons, go to FILMRATINGS.COM,
and MPAA.ORG.
Parents, please refer to PARENTALGUIDE.ORG
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| BOOK |
The
Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
by Douglas Adams
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| SYNOPSIS
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 Don't
Panic... Stick out your thumb to join the most ordinary man in the
world on an extraordinary adventure across the universe in the hilarious
comedy, "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy." 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 way for a hyperspace
bypass. Arthur's only chance for survival: hitch a ride on a passing
spacecraft. For the novice space traveler, the greatest adventure
in the universe begins when the world ends. Arthur sets out on a journey
in which he finds that nothing is as it seems: he learns that a towel
is just the most useful thing in the universe, finds the meaning of
life, and discovers that everything he needs to know can be found
in one book: "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. |
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 I confess: I have never read The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy. I have never listened to the original radio drama. I’ve never seen the TV mini-series. I’ve never read the comic book adaptation. And I have never played the video game. Hence, I wondered if I had any business even reviewing this film. Why not leave that task to the professionals? But as I watched the movie, I began to think that perhaps I was wrong. Maybe I was the ideal person for the job, seeing as I was not distracted by issues that would have troubled the common fan, such as how faithful/unfaithful the film was to its previous incarnations. (None of which are faithful to each other, so I’m told.) Unlike the majority of viewers,  I would be able to evaluate the film according to what it attempted to be—the drollest of droll outer space comedies, what Mel Brooks’ Spaceballs would have been had it been funny and made by the Brits. More to the point, however, I believe my ignorance also allowed me to see something in the film that I never expected to discover, something that may have escaped everyone’s attention until now. In short, I think I have discovered nothing less than The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Gospel. Let me explain.
Review continued on Kevin's blog
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Review by
MAURICE BROADDUS
Contiued on Maurice's blog |
So long and thanks for all the fish.
So sad that it should come to this.
We tried to warn you all but, oh dear.
You may not share our intellect,
Which might explain your disrespect
For all the natural wonders that grow around you. To this fateful tune, the dolphins exit planet Earth and the movie, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, begins. Once again, I am faced with reviewing a movie whose source material I am intimately acquainted with, having read all five books of the Hitchhiker Trilogy and being a fan of the BBC television mini-series. I was afraid of two possible reactions: 1) that this movie would come off, especially to the uninitiated, as a trite exercise in faux-philosophy masquerading as British humor; or 2) the knee-jerk geek reaction of “they screwed up this book” (leaving me with making the a spiritual connection along the lines of “just as Jesus was betrayed by Judas, so the book was betrayed by this movie”). Luckily, for the most part (and as a further exercise in pleasing no one completely), I was spared this fate. For the uninitiated, the Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy is “... a wholly remarkable book, it is also a highly successful one - more popular than the Celestial Home Care Omnibus, better selling than Fifty More Things to do in Zero Gravity, and more controversial than Oolon Colluphid's trilogy of philosophical blockbusters Where God Went Wrong, Some More of God's Greatest Mistakes and Who is this God Person Anyway?” It is slightly cheaper than the Encyclopedia Galactica and it has the words “Don’t Panic” inscribed in large friendly letters on its cover.
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