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This movie makes no sense. Or maybe you have to read the book to understand what's happening, because the movie doesn't give any explanation. The movie starts off very promisingly with a great musical number sung by dolphins leaving the planet. It's a catchy and fun number, and I was hoping that fun and excitement would stick through the rest of the film....it didn't. After about 20 minutes, the movie became so muddled in plot and confusing. The movie was very good at dishing out interesting characters with interesting special effects and puppetry, and it had some good looking sets, but the writing explained none of this and I'm sure all the audience who hadn't read the books was scratching their heads. In the end this was a good looking film with nonsensical goings on.My rating: * 1/2 out of ****.

What a shame, and such a missed opportunity. They managed to make a funny book/radio/TV series into a dull film.I think the main problem is that we don't care about the characters.Ford Prefect is particularly weak. I don't know what the producers were thinking of.Somehow, the whole thing went through too many committees before reaching the screen.Maybe semi-Americanising this very British material was another part of the problem? Anyway, it's no wonder that audiences stayed away from the cinemas in droves. If I were you, I'd give the DVD a miss, too.

When I watch movies such as this I wonder if there isn't anybody in the circle of the director or of the producers that read the script and tell them: "Hey dudes, this ain't gonna work!! It does not work as an "intelligent comedy", but it doesn't work either as a coarse comedy. It's gonna be a disaster and nobody's gonna watch it, neither the blockbuster addicts nor the stricter audiences.Yeah, they have worked hard and there's no doubt the débutant Garth Jennings put tons of enthusiasm in this project, but it's just that isn't funny at all, and it's so goddamn boring... What's more, you don't even know what's all about: aliens, spaceships, a robot that's depressed... What for??? Yes, the author is so imaginative, but Jennings should have had a better script writer, one who knows how to create good dialogs, for example.*My rate: 3/10