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05/03/05
Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (2005)
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Reviews Counted:187
Fresh:113
Rotten:74
Average Rating:6.1/10
Consensus: A frantic and occasional funny adaptation of Douglas Adams' novel. However, it may have those unfamiliar with the source material scratching their heads.
Runtime: 1 hr 50 mins
Genre: Science-Fiction/Fantasy
Synopsis: Douglas Adams's long-awaited film version of THE HITCHHIKER'S GUIDE TO THE GALAXY, based on his five-book series, is a funny, wacky, highly creative ride through a bizarre universe. Martin Freeman... [More]
Starring: Martin Freeman, Sam Rockwell, Zooey Deschanel, Mos Def
Director: Garth Jennings
Reviews for Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
An amusement starship.
05/03/05
The movie has its share of clever touches, but not much of a soul.
05/02/05
This movie is "Sin City's" evil twin. Disguised to look clever but underneath boring as hell.
05/02/05
The problem is not that the film debases the book but that movies themselves are too capacious a home for such comedy, with its tea-steeped English musings and its love of bitty, tangential gags.
05/02/05
Sam Rockwell puts a lot of comic energy into the Zaphod Beeblebrox character, but the payoff is surprisingly slight. That sums up the problem with the movie.
05/02/05
[It has] visual goofiness and flights of thespian bravura.
05/02/05
Has a delightfully human quality.
05/02/05
As the film unfurls you keep thinking, Boy, what would Terry Gilliam have made of this?
05/01/05
Strictly for Douglas Adams fans.
05/01/05
Like the novel, the film version is quirky and original using Adams' ideas and characters with top-notch special effects to create an organic science fiction adventure.
05/01/05
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05/01/05
Fans of the novel can exhale, finally; panic is unwarranted.
05/01/05
An amusing, if disjointed, ride.
05/01/05
The fans are gonna love this movie.
05/01/05
It was easy to the spot the diehard fans of the novels. They emerged from the theater sulking like Marvin the Robot.
04/30/05
This is science fiction as envisioned by Preston Sturges or the Marx Brothers. It jumps from slapstick to wordplay to repartee at the speed of light.
04/30/05
We're not talking Star Wars here; we're instead talking Disney-like cute.
04/30/05
Hitching a ride, even one in space, has never been less exciting and adventurous.
04/30/05
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04/30/05
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