Movie Review : The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (2005)

I really want to watch to movie adaptation of this book, and I don't really want to make any effort to find the movie myself. But a few days ago, when I was browsing channel on TV, HBO will air it, so I'm thinking to myself, "Why not?"

My review will contain spoilers, and my review is usually just me retelling the whole story while telling the reader how much I love stuff. So please, bear with me...

The movie adaptation of this book started with the Dolphin thingy... which is great. The narrator is doing a great job and I think to myself how wonderful this movie is going to turn out. After that, the song that said "So long and thanks for all the fiah" came on and it was really awesome. I think I'll find the song later.

Anyway, the story progress to Arthur Dent. I think the actor who portrayed Arthur Dent is doing a pretty good job. The beginning of the movie is pretty much how I pictured the book when I read it. This movie is 80% accurate. There are a lot of direct book quote in the beginning of the movie. They use the original dialog when they reached the bar. Especially that quote about Thursday. One of my favorite quote from the book.

I'm really glad that the movie is quite as funny as the book is. That part when the Vogons demolished planet Earth? That's just as ridiculously funny as the book is. I think the movie delivered that part pretty well.

I love how The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy portrayed in the book. The visual graphic that is used to describe it is amazing. By the way, the narrator who narrated the story (*and the entry of the Guide) is really great too. I thought the Guide would look like Kindle or something, but I guess I'm wrong.

I love how they visualized the Vogons. The book has told me how hideous those creatures are, but seeing the movie version of the Vogons confirmed how hideous those creatures are. That part with the poetry reading? It's just like how I imagined it when I read the book. And then they sent them away to kick them out to the space. I wish they included the dialog about how Arthur Dent never listens to her mother, but unfortunately it's not in the movie. And I really hope that this dialog will be included in the movie :

" 'Ford.' he said, 'You're turning into a penguin. Stop it.' "

Douglas Adams, The Utimate Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, page 58.

But that part is not included in the movie either. They both just turned into a sofa :/

I'm glad that Zooey Deschanel portrayed Trillian. She looks really beautiful and intelligent too when she portrayed Trillian.

One of the best thing about this movie is Marvin. Why? Because it was Alan Rickman who voiced Marvin! It's just perfect!

I'm not quite sure if the movie change a lot of the story or not, because I mostly forgotten the story from the book. But I can tell that this movie is just as weird as the book is. And every important moment from the book is included in this movie, so I'm not disappointed at all.

So what do you think? Have you watched this movie?