Fresh
Adams would be pleased.
Peter Travers, Rolling Stone
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Don't leave Earth without it.
2005 · 1h 49m · PG
Adventure, Comedy, Science Fiction
Directed by
Garth Jennings
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The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Overview
Mere seconds before the Earth is to be demolished by an alien construction crew, Arthur Dent is swept off the planet by his friend Ford Prefect, a researcher penning a new edition of "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy."
Director and cast
- Garth Jennings Director
- Martin Freeman as Arthur Dent
- Yasiin Bey as Ford Prefect
- Zooey Deschanel as Trillian
- Sam Rockwell as Zaphod Beeblebrox
- Alan Rickman as Marvin (voice)
- Anna Chancellor as Questular Rontok
- Bill Nighy as Slartibartfast
- Richard Griffiths as Jeltz (voice)
- John Malkovich as Humma Kavula
- Helen Mirren as Deep Thought (voice)
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
60%
Tomatometer
Rotten
The problem is not that the film debases the book but that movies themselves are too capacious a home for such comedy, with its tea-steeped English musings and its love of bitty, tangential gags.
Anthony Lane, New Yorker
Fresh
[It has] visual goofiness and flights of thespian bravura.
Lisa Schwarzbaum, Entertainment Weekly
Fresh
[The movie] captures the quizzical, quasi-spiritual nature of [Adams'] book and manages to nail a surprising number of his dry little jokes, even some that you think could work only on the page.
Stephanie Zacharek, Salon.com
Rotten
Although Hitchhiker starts out a total gas, it doesn't have enough fuel to sustain the ride, ultimately amounting to little more than some amusing gags strung together in search of a story.
Teresa Wiltz, Washington Post
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