I agree with Sara See

I agree with Sara See

I saw Hitchiker's Guide to the Galaxy yesterday at the Alamo Drafthouse Theater on South Lamar. Before the movie started the theater presented a bunch of clips from the BBC production. I was grateful to see the clips because they really helped set my expectations for the movie that followed. In the BBC television production it is evident that the screenwriters attempted to be very faithful to the book and radio productions- hoping that the cleverness and wit of Adams' language would carry the comedy. But this approach proved disastrous and after watching a few of clips I felt sad and depressed like Marvin but not in a funny way

The movie on the hand takes a much looser approach and manages to succeed as a comedy. This success stems mainly from the quirky performances of dear Zaphod, Ford, Arthur and Trillian--their performances are funny not because of what they say, but rather how they say it. So I recommend this movie. It is fun to see Adams' universe beautifuly realized in a slick cgi production and it is fun to hear Zaphod twang arrogantly stupid like a galactic Gee Dubya. Oh, yeah you should check out the Zaphod Beeblebrox Campaign Video: go to the iTunes music store homepage and look for this: