Not bad! It did what movifications always do: cut out a lot of important stuff, and provide a vision that doesn't necessarily match what fans might have had in their own heads. But Mos Def definitely worked, I thought, as Ford Prefect, and Arthur Dent was suitably clueless, and the Infinite Improbability Drive was, well, Infinitely Improbable. I remembered a number of those Guide entries, and the style in which they presented them was quite elegant. Marvin was depressed. The Vogons were too bloated, I think, and Zaphod Beeblebrox was a little overdone.
Yes, there was a romance, and the romance was campy. But tHhGttG is campy. So I think it worked out too, but perhaps not well enough to fit in with sequels. It wasn't the best movie I've ever seen, but I don't regret spending the money: I had a sufficient chuckles to make it worth it.
What did you think about the final weapon/device? What did you think about the role of the 'evil guy' in the movie? What about the the 'gentrification' parallels in the movie regarding tearing down dent's home for an intergalactic highway? How about the 'god-element's' in the movie ... what does it say about religion?
I loved this movie too - I thought it was fabulous, took a hillarious take on day to day stuff. But the thing is I can't remember a lot of parts at the moment.
Posted by: AradhanaD | February 11, 2007 at 02:48 PM