Review of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

I had high hopes for this movie having read the book and the film having received largely positive reviews in the British press.

Good Points

• The effects were quite impressive. - Stephen Fry's interludes where he narrates parts of the Hitchhikers Guide were the most amusing parts.

Bad Points

• The pacing of the film was terrible with parts where it was moving too fast to comprehend what was happening, to others where I was extremely bored and contemplating walking out of the movie.

• The characters had no depth and I didn't develop any feeling towards them at all.

• A very convoluted story which brushed over or dispensed with significant parts in the book far too often for seemingly little gain.

• Apart from the narrations from the HHGG the humour in the film seemed almost nonexistent. A mouse saying 'bollocks' got the biggest laugh in the cinema I was in, which says it all really. Not the sort of humour the author of the book was aiming at I would have thought.

Overall

A big disappointment, I had expected so much more (but should, perhaps, have known better).