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A worthy attempt to bring an almost unfilmable concept to the big screen. There was a lot of good stuff here -- an almost flawless cast and some great production design. The only thing that really counted against it was that the plot (if you could call it that) was virtually non-existent and you could tell there was at least 2 hours worth of material left on the cutting room floor. Then again, the original radio series had a very threadbare plot, seeing as Douglas Adams was essentially making it up as he went along. The whole HH universe was really just a flexible backdrop that allowed Adams to make lots of satirical jokes. Perhaps not the best foundation for a movie, hence the rather wafer-thin "rescue Trillian" and "find the POV gun" plot threads which were full of holes. A couple of people walked out of my theater after about 5 minutes. I guess they were expecting something more along the lines of "Soul Plane in Space" -- with Star Wars production values -- and were a bit shocked to find themselves in the English countryside watching someone with a Yorkshire accent trying to knock down a guy's cottage. Those familiar with the radio series/books/TV series will get a big kick out of the movie. Those with no previous HH experience will either love it or hate it. It'll be a shame if we never see The Restaurant at the End of the Universe on the big screen, as that's a potentially more self-contained movie with a lot of potential to build upon the original and deliver something quite unique. My HH ranking now looks something like: Radio series -> Annotated script book -> Novels -> TV series -> Movie -> Infocom game Rating: 3/5
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