This guy’s so-called review entirely misses the point. Any time the reviewer spends the bulk of his review talking about what the movie isn’t, you know that he went into the film with an agenda, and thereby failed to recognize what the movie is. It’s a common trap for inexperienced critics.
That may be a good rule of thumb, cervaise but it’s hardly universal. I can think of many times I went into a movie without an agenda, willing to be led in new directions even though I had loved a book or series, etc. Once hit with the stench of the hideous adaptation which cut all that mattered out of what it’s named after, what I ended up writing about it (if I had) might well have looked like a “what’s missing” type thing. However, that does NOT mean I went into it with an agenda.
I just don’t see the point of using the name if the filmmakers then refuse to use anything ELSE about the book/series/story etc. Such as, you know, whatever people enjoyed about it.
So, you’re saying that the film is a satire and the reviewer just doesn’t get it, then. Ah, that all makes sense. 
Now that was funny!
But that’s just it. In my head, that’s precisely what he looked like.
Please god no. There is no point to doing a film version of Life, The Universe, and Everything because, frankly, it was rubbish. The fact it started out as a Doctor Who plot that Adams cannibalised is testament enough that it has nothing to do with anything prior to it, and is utter pants.
So, I take it you’re not a fan of The Long Dark Tea Time of the Soul, then? It too was cribbed from one DA’s Dr. Who scripts.
Marvin’s appearance doesn’t bother me at all. He’s a robot built by Sirius Cybernetics. In other words, he’s “Your Plastic Pal Who’s Fun To Be With,” and he looks the part. He just has a bad prototype Genuine People Personality.
[sub]But how could SCC be so incompetent yet build something with a brain the size of a planet?[/sub]
Actually it was the first Dirk Gently book “Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency” that borrowed from the unaired Dr. Who episode “Shada”. (There’s a flash version of Shada here. Kinda fun.
Mail me one! Don’t know what the weather’s going to be like where you are, but they’re great ‘frozen’ as well. I try to sip one over the course of an hour or so, and I’m about 5’7" and 128#. Of course, I’m also a lightweight.
I’ll see this movie regardless of the review, though I may see it at the matinee so it’s cheaper in case it really does stink up the place. Then I’ll spend the money I saved on Kleenex and cry myself to sleep. 
You’re right, I had the wrong book, but an episode has aired which used the premise of an alien being who’s spaceship explodes, thus giving rise to life on Earth. I saw it on a PBS station in Florida about 15 years ago, and I specifically waited for the credits to see if DA had written it. He had.
That would be City of Death, one of the best episodes in the whole series.
“I don’t think he’s as stupid as he seems.”
“Nobody could be as stupid as he seems.”
“I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by.”
–Douglas Adams
You don’t need the gold brick. A PGGB is like getting your head smashed in with a gold brick. You only need one or the other.
How does Zaphod only have one head?
He has two… the other is underneath the first.
OMG! Spoiler alert! Spoiler alert! Next thing you’ll be telling us that the Earth blows up near the beginning of the movie! For Og’s sake! Can’t you use spoiler boxes!?!
I don’t need a review. I saw the trailers. They suuuuuhuhucked. Nothing funny and/or interesting in them. There’s no way those clips are the highlights of a good movie.
DING DING DING DING DING DING
And even sven gets the correct answer for $2000!
You must have missed the notices. Everyone ignores them at the council building, posted in the basement.
If this movie is a bust, it will end up being a great drinking game somehow.
In other news:
I am curious about this/these HHTTG audio tape(s). Is there only one or several different ones ? Is one better than another? Is it an ensemble peice or what? Links need!
Thanks!