H2G2 - 2 thumbs up !

In fact three thumbs up :-)

Just came home after watching "Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy". The movie was indeed much better than what I expected it to be after reading those rave reviews on the internet. Darth Jennings has gone about doing the cinematic adaptation of the book really well. In terms of watching this movie, those who have read the book will feel like they are reviewing the book at 10 times the speed with some unheard incidents and for those who didn't get a chance to read the book would thoroughly enjoy the movie.

I was quite curious to see Zaphod's characterisation in the movie and found it really convincing. One of the most hilarious sequences in the movie was the fly swatter one where a fly swatter appears from nowhere and hits anyone on the face Vogsphere who tries to think originally. The entire crowd burst out in laughter during this scene. Quite not sure if most of the crowd were Doug Adam's patrons of the book. Aparently, this scene was written by Doug. Adam specifically for the movie version.

I felt the original plots described in the book have been shrunk in the movie to an extent that it lost it's wit, humour and intensity. Particularly, the scenes where Zaphod's spaceship is attaked by a thermo-nuclear missile when they try to land on Magrathea, the book version is far better than the movie version.

Finally, The $6.50 that I spent for the movie was indeed worth while ! whilst, the $12 for "Mumbai Express" was a complete waste of money.