This film just didn't work very well. I found it hard to understand what the characters were saying and the acting was fairly awful. In a lot of the scenes it just didn't feel like the characters were even talking to each other. Also a lot of what happened wasn't very well explained and didn't make a lot of sense. I've read all the original books but this film just didn't capture them. Also a lot of original dialogue was contrived and complex which when read as the printed word was very funny. However hearing much of it regurgitated word for word in a feature film sounded clumsy and forced. A good film maker should understand this basic point when adapting a film from a book. I quite liked Martin Freeman in it although he wasn't exactly the Arthur Dent of the books who is a rather hapless and uncool figure. Mos Def wasn't very good and I didn't understand much of what he was saying and the less said about Zooey Deschanel the better. OK, she's easy on the eyes but she can't act. Also letting Arthur get Trillian in the end was kind of the exact opposite of the whole original story. Arthur is the good guy who doesn't get the girl. Trillian is an air head who goes off the total jerk.
Except for the dolphins, the Vogan space ships blowing up the Earth and the animated parts of the book it was a poor film.
Except for the dolphins, the Vogan space ships blowing up the Earth and the animated parts of the book it was a poor film.