Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy

It was good, now I await the DVD.

Samuel

Went and saw it laughed my head off, especially near the end when Ford scares away the vogons by running at them waving a towel!

Went and saw it last night in a packed cinema. Laughed hard and enjoyed the whole thing.
The wool guy throwing up was sensational – almost as good as the Team America vomit scene.

Maybe I have a warped sense of humour

G

Rather predictably Megan Spencer on JJJ said she was disappointed. Probably because the only ones she rates are obscure, low budget, and have a lesbian scene.

Have heard quite a few Pythonesque descriptions. All sounds good to me, and Sam Rockwell does some good stuff, as well as Teddy KGB

spiny, I heard the radio series on tape before I read the books. I prefer to think of it as books before movie because 1) more people have read the books than listened to the radio series 2) I can re-read the books if I want to, but I can’t listen to the radio tapes again 3) I enjoyed the books the most.

Dear oh Dear as marvin wud say. Yu poor lot it was a radio show well before the book. Then a sad very sad TV programme.
Yes i enjoyed it, far more than i did ppl running all over public housing roofs.
SO LONG AND THANK YOU FOR THE FISH……

There was a bit of wordplay, but not as much as the books. Not a problem in my opinion – movies don’t have as much time to tell the same stories as books, and the visual gags in the movie made up for the lack of puns. Wordplay is a form of humour better suited to books than movies anyway.

I’m hopefully going to see it on Friday although i am a bit hesitant that it won’t follow the books or the BBC TV series (which I thought was hilarious).

I still can’t quite get away from viewing Ford Prefect as the little bloke from the TV series.

Oh well, I’ll reserve judgement.

Don’t forget your towel…

Good to hear. I’ll go and see it then. I was very worried it would be yet another great book / series of books that would be ruined on the big screen.

Did they manage to retain much of the wordplay that made the book and radio series so special?

From one report I’ve heard it was severely slashed.