Long awaited, finally a feature film adaptation of the Hitchhiker's Guide arrives. Is it worth it?
The marketing is wholly annoying. The picture is being presented like its "Armageddon" or "Independence Day", which is only going to make people dissappointed. That is, unless they've somehow managed to turn the Hitchhikers Guide story into one of those movies, which would make me and anyone who's ever read the books or likes movies that don't painfully suck dissappointed.
But its still a Douglas Adams screenplay, and has a British production team, so I'm going to go on the assumption that its just the marketing that is stupid. Mos Def is an interesting choice for Ford Prefect. Certainly not one I would have anticipated, but I think it could work out very well. And casting Stephen Fry as the voice of the book is so perfect it hurts. A reviewer at IMDB said Fry has a voice "like God popped in for a cup of tea" which is about as perfect a description as possible.
So I'm hopeful that this is a good movie adaptation which is just a victim of Touchstone's marketing machine trying to attract the wrong audience (a la Fight Club). I'll find out soon, let me know what any of your impressions are.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0371724/
Posted by ktismael at April 25, 2005 10:52 AM