When I was a pre-teen I enjoyed a lot of the world that Douglas Adams created. I read all of his "Hitchhikers"-related books. I watched the BBC TV series. I played the Zork-like text adventure game on my Commodore 64. I also listened to the radio play based on the book. That was all good stuff!

Being a fan, I was surprisingly late to see the recent movie. (I think it came out in 2005.) The movie was shown on one of the STARS channels the other day, so I scheduled it to record. I watched part of the movie on Tuesday, and the rest on Wednesday.

All I can say about that movie is: "What a mess!"

The best things about the book (and related materials) are the guide itself, cool characters, humor, and bizarre situations. The recent movie wasn't funny, the Guide's animations were stupid, beside Zafod the characters weren't particularily interesting (especially Ford.), it wasn't funny, and the whole thing ended up to be a major disappointment.

Worst of all, there was a lame love story subplot. They could have dropped that, and spent more time trying to make the rest of the movie interesting.

In a nutshell: I don't recommend this movie.