Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy
For anyone familiar with the book or TV production of this classic, it will seem all so familiar, it is a curious mix of trying to stick faithfully with the script and attempting to inject new life in to it, yet for me the balance did not really work.
It's still quaint, it's still mad, yet the dialogue and the humor all seemed slightly dated, echoes of a by-gone age when humor was frightfully sugar coated.
This is still an enjoyable movie, the genius of Douglas Adams still shines through, with his off the wall jumps in logic and creative playing with the highly improbable, it remains a unique and inventive story.
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy centers on the hapless Arthur Dent, who awakes one morning to find his best friend is an alien, his planet is about to be destroyed and that he is somehow central to a galactic scientific experiment to determine the meaning of life itself.
Hitchhiker fans will know what is happening, but newcomers will be left scratching their heads at a story that flits from one unpronounceable planet to another - each one populated by equally exotic-sounding characters.
Despite outstanding production design and some fantastic visual effects, overall the film is a bit of a mess. A charming mess, maybe, but a mess all the same.
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