The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy was a comic novel which I’d been looking forward to seeing on the big screen for years which sadly turned out a huge disappointment. No doubt that Douglas Adams created visuals and action challenging to CG technology 25 years after first publication and complex characters and wordplay difficult to translate at any time; Adams dying before the screenplay could be completed was another nail.

That the director (Garth Jennings) was mostly known for music videos and the writer (Karey Kirkpatrick) for kiddie flicks two more. The flailing plot ending up elevating a minor bit (the Arthur/Trillian romance, which was not in the novel) as the climax one too many. The bad result: not much of a surprise and spoiling what could have been a five movie series. At least Marvin was cute.

not recommended