Hitchhiker’s: vastly, staggeringly, jaw-droppingly bad
My mother called me yesterday to tell me that there was a move called Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, and I should make sure I bring my towel. My mother’s well-intentioned attempt to reconnect with my childhood aside, I’ve seen the trailer and not only do I not intend to bring my towel, I don’t intend to bring any part of my body to the theater. Reviews are unfortunately bearing out my impression of the trailer that the movie has been turned into some kind of special effects action movie, which the story clearly is not.
Well, story is a relative term. If you’ve read the first couple of books, you know that plot was, well, incidental. The value was the comedy. Truly funny, thoughtful, comedy. Apparently this has, in most cases, been replaced by “jokoids”, a term which the reviewer attributes to Ken Campbell as “something that has the shape of a joke but is not actually funny.”
Sad, really.
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If you read the introduction to the 6-in-one novel, it wasn’t supposed to be anything like the book.
By “it” I take it that you mean the film? I’ve apparently been out of it for a while; I didn’t know there was a sixth book.
—- Nick