Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Not as bad as Vogon poetry

[barondave]

Reasons to like The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, The Movie:

1.

2. Good uses for your towel

3. Incessant insults of George W. Bush.


If you go to the movie:

1. Have very low expectations.

2. Stay for the fun bit during the closing credits (you don't have to wait until it finishes).


On the Shockwave ratings scale of 9-23 where 9 is low, 23 is high and all Steve Brust novels get a 17, I rate HHGttG at about a 14.

Comments

[barondave.livejournal.com]

Sam Rockwell's Zaphod is unmistakeably W, including cracks about stupidity and stolen elections. He's never mentioned by name and all the jokes work internally as digs on Zaphod, but no one will be fooled. And they make a lot of fun of Zaphod...

Sorry if that wasn't clear. But it is one of the few bright spots of the movie.

I looked up Reginald Maudling, and it doesn't make any of the jokes funnier, but they work without knowing who he is. "Reginald Maudling's naughty bits..." MP was really good at making pop references that work without knowledge of the referant. (I admit I had to think twice about the attack of the Keep Left signs. It's a Brit thing.)