The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy [2005]

I’ve seen this movie on several occasions and can never get over despite its inability to convey the entire meaning and theme of the original book and TV series that it’s still a good movie to watch on a rainy afternoon. Especially when you have no desire to get out of bed and think that it’d be so much better if the world were to just end!

How appropriate it is to watch this movie then-since at the beginning we have the earth being destroyed to make way for an intergalactic by-pass. How odd really that the main character [Arthur Dent, played by Martin Freeman] is about to lose his house because of a planned by-pass to go right through his house, and then not but ten minutes later in the movie the earth itself is destroyed all for the same reason!

Ah the irony of those Brits and their humor to boot!

There are plenty of very good supporting actors in this movie that make it worthwhile to watch. Such as; John Malkovich playing the rival political candidate who lost his bid for president of the galaxy-can’t see why anyone who has THAT many legs could lose! Then Zooey Deschanel plays Arthur Dent’s love interest in the movie-Trillian. She has quite a bit of spunk, but doesn’t’ seem to mind at all-nor bat an eyelash-when the current president of the galaxy offers to take her on his space ship, and she is willing to leave poor Arthur at a party for what ought to be a crazed, drunken nut-case! Not sure but most people that tell me they want to show me “Their space-ship” I tend to refer to psych at work! Mos Def plays Arthur’s friend Ford Prefect-who is in reality from another planet and is working on an update for the current addition of “The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy”, not to mention he is rather indisposable to Arthur in getting out alive in most of the difficult situations he finds himself in throughout the movie.

If you enjoy dry wit and humor in movies and are not looking for the average shoot them up, kill them with the most destruction possible and spilling the most blood on screen type of movie, then this may offer you a laugh or smile throughout the movie!

It also affords you the chance to think about your role in the universe!

Are humans really the smartest species on this planet? Or do you just think that we are?

It offers some interesting questions, and your answers may tend to be very ego-centric!

Consider kicking your mind open a bit wider than it is now!

Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy [2005]
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0371724/

Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Web Site
http://video.movies.go.com/hitchhikersguide/global/index_street.html?countryID=us&section=undefined&datastr=undefined&pastStreet=1&

Wednesday, October 15, 2008