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62
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58
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57
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57
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57
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57
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Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, The
Touchstone Pictures
FILM:
MPAA RATING: PG for thematic elements, action and mild language
Starring
Martin Freeman,
Sam Rockwell,
Mos Def,
Zooey Deschanel,
Bill Nighy,
Anna Chancellor,
John Malkovich, Warwick Davis, Alan Rickman,
and
Stephen Fry (voice)
Don't Panic... Stick out your thumb to join the most ordinary man in the world on an extra-ordinary adventure across the universe in this hilarious comedy. (Touchstone Pictures)
| GENRE(S): |
Adventure
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Comedy
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Sci-fi
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| WRITTEN BY: |
Douglas Adams (also book)
Karey Kirkpatrick
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| DIRECTED BY: |
Garth Jennings
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| RELEASE DATE: |
DVD: September 13, 2005
Theatrical: April 29, 2005
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| RUNNING TIME: |
110 minutes, Color |
| ORIGIN: |
USA / UK |

All critic scores are converted to a 100-point scale. If a critic does not indicate a score, we assign a score based on the general impression given by the text of the review. Learn more...
83
Portland Oregonian
Shawn Levy
They have been true to a classic source, using Adams' language and finding just the right actors, sets and costumes to flesh out his vision. Only the most persnickety cultist won't appreciate the effort.

80
Empire
Dan Jolin
Mostly harmless. A very British, very funny sci-fi misadventure that's guaranteed to win converts.

80
The Hollywood Reporter
Michael Rechtshaffen
Hits the screen with its disarmingly droll spirit quite intact.

80
LA Weekly
Chuck Wilson
This very funny, very British movie -- directed by newcomer Garth Jennings -- has sci-fi effects that are impressive yet appropriately cheesy.

80
The New York Times
Manohla Dargis
Mr. Jennings and Mr. Goldsmith have held onto a genuine sense of childlike wonder, which works as a nice corrective to what might otherwise come across as an overabundance of hip.

75
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Sean Axmaker
It's a pleasure to see and hear so much wit in a big-budget comedy, and the fine British cast of supporting actors makes every bon mot a tasty verbal morsel.

75
Chicago Tribune
Robert K. Elder
Even if this new version of "Hitchhiker" doesn't quite capture it all, you'll still want to stick your thumb out and catch a ride.

75
San Francisco Chronicle
Mick LaSalle
Wildly imaginative, humane, playful and deflating of all pretense.

75
New York Post
Kyle Smith
The film is a loopy, family-friendly jaunt, with a perfect "Wizard of Oz" finale that isn't in the book, but like the book, it suffers from a chronic plot malfunction.

75
Entertainment Weekly
Lisa Schwarzbaum
At selected moments the Pee Wee's Playhouse-scaled visual goofiness and flights of thespian bravura in this long-awaited movie adaptation of Douglas Adams' goofy-wise cult classic are in perfect celestial harmony with the existential tomfoolery of Adams' peerless (and peerlessly Monty Python-British) creation.

75
Rolling Stone
Peter Travers
Go with the whimsical flow that includes a hilariously morose robot named Marvin, voiced by the great Alan Rickman with the weight of the galaxy resonating in every bored, cynical syllable. Adams would be pleased.

70
The New Yorker
Anthony Lane
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.

70
The Onion (A.V. Club)
Keith Phipps
Not every moment works, particularly in the draggy middle section, but the spirit of the thing still carries it along.

70
Chicago Reader
Andrea Gronvall
The singing dolphins opener is a giddy prelude to an imaginative romp that's helped along in the slow patches by mind-bending visuals.

70
Film Threat
Pete Vonder Haar
Too often, the movie follows up Adams’ chaotic humor with weak slapstick and the incongruous love story.

70
Salon.com
Stephanie Zacharek
Does so many things right, and still doesn't quite hit the mark.

70
Variety
Leslie Felperin
More smile-inducing than laugh-aloud funny.

70
Slate
David Edelstein
An extremely pleasant, consistently amusing diversion that is never as uproarious as you might hope. But don't panic, as the Guide would say. In a pinch, it will do.

70
Washington Post
Desson Thomson
This is a movie about improbability, randomness and absurdity. It almost goes without saying, you can't get in a panic about having everything.

67
Austin Chronicle
Marc Savlov
It's nonstop chaos, and the everything-and-the-kitchen-sink style of comedy is taxing despite the frequent moments of pure comic genius.

63
Premiere
Aaron Hillis
An enjoyable mess that aimlessly goofs like "Men in Black" when its script calls for "Black Adder."

63
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
Liam Lacey
The charm of the movie's first 20 minutes soon turns shrill and manic, as invention is piled upon invention.

63
USA Today
Mike Clark
Though the journey ends on some fun notes after a sagging middle, Galaxy never fully breaks out.

63
New York Daily News
Jack Mathews
Most of the film is way too goofy for all but the most thumbstruck Hitchhiker.

63
Baltimore Sun
Michael Sragow
Part irritating, part inspired.

63
Boston Globe
Ty Burr
Visually playful and often good fun, it never settles on a convincing narrative shape.

63
Philadelphia Inquirer
Steven Rea
Lost in a time warp of its own doing (or non-doing), Hitchhiker's Guide just doesn't seem terribly original.

63
ReelViews
James Berardinelli
Boasts a strong ensemble of performances. Martin Freeman is the perfect choice for an ordinary, unheroic Earth guy.

63
Charlotte Observer
Lawrence Toppman
Except for the irritating Rockwell, the cast suits the characters.

60
TV Guide
Maitland McDonagh
Driven equally by big questions and the abiding desire for small pleasures, like a decent cup of tea, it's an eccentric, mind-bending head trip that greets every catastrophe with an endearingly goofy smile that embodies Hitchhiker's Guide's Zen mantra: Don't Panic!

50
Chicago Sun-Times
Roger Ebert
The movie was more of a revue than a narrative, more about moments than an organizing purpose, and cute to the point that I yearned for some corrosive wit from its second cousin, the Monty Python universe.

50
Washington Post
Teresa Wiltz
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.

50
Village Voice
Jessica Winter
Studiously harmless, Disney's long-in-development film rendition pasteurizes the book's renegade verve with typical means.

50
Miami Herald
Connie Ogle
The film's opening credits are terrific, and the first 10 or 15 minutes -- in which Ford and Arthur speedily load up on beer at the local pub -- are absorbing and funny. It's such a promising start that it's doubly deflating to realize that once they land on Zaphod's spaceship, the humor vaporizes.

50
Los Angeles Times
Kevin Thomas
There are some inspired off-the-wall moments, but they are more than offset by a pervasive aura of tedium and the lack of any sense of the forward momentum necessary to sustain an adventure of this kind.

40
Dallas Observer
Robert Wilonsky
The droll has been made dull, a most inexplicable and unfortunate turn of events for so adored a genius, goofball work as this.

25
Christian Science Monitor
David Sterritt
Amiably bland actors can be fun to watch, as Tom Hanks has proved. Freeman is no Hanks, though, and The Hitchhiker's Guide won't boost anyone's career into hyperspace. Or give your mind a workout.


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