Review of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (2005) by Oxana — 11 Sep 2014

For someone who has not yet read the books (I'm about to, though), this was a decent movie. The first time I saw it, it felt better, but perhaps I've grown more critical because honestly... this didn't impress me too much on the second watch.

The plot - if there's one to speak of - is pretty insane - the characters are chaotic, and neither is really all that funny. Maybe I wasn't in a mood to be amused, but... the jokes just didn't work. The lack of seriousness and steadiness ate at the fun moments.

The only true source of humor and the most amazing character is Marvin, a robot with a depression. Alan Rickman as the voice for that poor character did an awesome job!

All in all... the movie could be worth three stars, but the humor was simply so poor that I can't give it that this time. Maybe after reading the books this movie will open to me differently, but right now, I can just feel sad about the whole farce that was this film.