The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (2005)

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Adams would be pleased.

May 6, 2005 | Comment (1)

Peter Travers

Rolling Stone

Top Critic

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.

May 2, 2005

Anthony Lane

New Yorker

Top Critic

[It has] visual goofiness and flights of thespian bravura.

May 2, 2005 Full Review

Lisa Schwarzbaum

Entertainment Weekly

Top Critic

[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.

April 29, 2005 Full Review

Stephanie Zacharek

Salon.com

Top Critic

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.

April 29, 2005 Full Review

Teresa Wiltz

Washington Post

Top Critic

Galaxy is good enough to keep you rooting for it, but the mode of transport needs fresher points and plugs.

April 29, 2005 Full Review

Mike Clark

USA Today

Top Critic

Fans of the book will probably be a little disappointed, but anyone encountering the Hitchhiker's Guide for the first time should be thoroughly entertained. It is very strange and very funny in a way that Adams' work exemplified.

March 22, 2011 Full Review

Joshua Starnes

ComingSoon.net

"The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy" is an enjoyable sci-fi romp with a strong twist of self-effacing British raillery that children of all ages will get a charge from.

June 19, 2009 Full Review

Cole Smithey

ColeSmithey.com

Arthur and his alien friend Ford Prefect travel the galaxy.

July 24, 2008 Full Review | Comments (2)

Cynthia Fuchs

Common Sense Media

It's hard to dislike a movie in which one of the heroes gets brain power from lemon juice.

September 17, 2007 Full Review

Rob Gonsalves

eFilmCritic.com

Considering all the things that could have gone wrong in the making of this picture, it's a minor miracle that it turned out as well as it did.

March 1, 2007 Full Review

Ethan Alter

Film Journal International

full review in Greek

October 3, 2006 Full Review

Joseph Proimakis

Movies for the Masses

A lot of fun and something different, poised to reach a broader audience with its silly and spirited tour of space -- which is vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big, by the way.

September 25, 2006

Russ Breimeier

Christianity Today

"Mostly Unnecessary."

January 16, 2006 Full Review | Comments (2)

Kevin A. Ranson

MovieCrypt.com

• 1. Arthur Dent: It must be Thursday. I never could get the hang of Thursdays.
  – Submitted by Typhon Q (5 months ago)
• 1. Ford Prefect: Lollapalooza!
  – Submitted by Zach W (7 months ago)
• 1. Arthur Dent: I think that door just sighed.
  2. Marvin the Paranoid Robot: Ghastly, isn't it? All the doors on this spaceship have been programmed to have a cheery and sunny disposition.
  – Submitted by Typhon Q (8 months ago)
• 1. Marvin the Paranoid Robot: I was talking to the navigational computer...
  2. Arthur Dent: And?
  3. Marvin the Paranoid Robot: ...It hates me.
  – Submitted by Jacob A (9 months ago)
• 1. Barman: Should we put paper bags over our heads or something?
  – Submitted by John S (10 months ago)
• 1. Marvin the Paranoid Robot: Life...Don't talk to me about Life.
  – Submitted by Jared B (11 months ago)

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