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Rating:  - Hard to Follow for Uninitiated
I've read Hitchhikers about a dozen times, so I knew what was going on all the way through. My wife, on the other hand, had no clue as she had not read the book. It seems you need the book to "get" the movie. I give the film makers credit for trying and I can only imagine how hard it would be to make this film stand apart from the novel.
The performance of by the actor playing Arther Dent was mediocre. Mos Def was spot on, as was the fellow who played Zaphod. The actress playing Trillian was a bit annoying, but a good physical match.
The sound quality of this movie is terrible! Dialogue is too soft and ambient noise is too loud!
If you are not a fan of Douglas Adams and the five or six books in the Hitchhiker trilogy then you should probably pass on this movie.
Rating:  - My Hitchiker's Guide Review
It was hilarious. It kept me smiling. I gave it as a gift to someone who likes comedy and dolphins. My favorite was the singalong with the most intelligent species in the world, but the humans and "humanoids" were very funny also. I hope the one I gifted it to shows it next time I go to visit and I can finish watching the clips at the end which also were great. I'm sure the one I gave it to will be happy to know that there is a dolphin sanctuary in the world somewhere where the dolphins can give you a ride if they choose to, but don't have to if they don't want to. I think it deserves the five star rating I gave it.
Rating:  - Words almost fail me, this is BAD !!!!
Having seen many adverse revues, I approached this film with trepidation, I'm a long term Hitchhikers fan from radio series through books to TV. I was even prepared for some new features, the Hitchhikers universe has always had a degree of script variation as it slipped from one format to another. I was not however in any way ready for the way that the storyline was butchered and new plot threads put in, none of which work. Presumably the thought of a Sci Fi film without a space battle and dozens of laser blasting storm troopers or love interest was deemed "too much out of the box" for some target demographic or other. So they get stuck in, giving the Vogons way more screen time than they ever needed and Arthur Dent with a speech so treacly it must have rotted his teeth.
Then we get to the casting, wrong, wrong, wrong ! With the honourable exception of Alan Rickmans' Marvin and Steven Frys' book nobody manages to carry off the characters they're supposed to be with any conviction.
In short, this is at best a film that should be called " Inspired by The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, but only loosely". The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy was always going to be difficult to bring to the screen, format wise it doesn't really suit the time frame allowed and much of the humour is quintessentially English. But the rewrite appears to have been mainly done by people who didn't get it and wanted to leave their own stamp on the film, which is a pity as they aren't in Douglas Adams league.
Newbies to the world of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy may find it slightly amusing, I just hated it almost from the beginning and suspect that most fans of Arthur Dent and Co will feel much the same.
Rating: - LOVE IT!
Loved it! But if you haven't read the books you're not going to appreciate it as much. Read at least the first book, then watch. I really wish they'd make another one, too.
Rating: - The worst movie ever
The shipment was on time and was as suggested. The movie on the other hand was the worst in history. I couldn't beleive anything could be that stupid, boring, a waste of time and money. The producers of this film could have burned their money in a barrel for warmth, rather than wasting it on a production like that.
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