Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Review

I saw this movie Friday night. I will say this: walking into the theater I was a little concerned. We got there right at the time the movie started, and there was 1 person there already. 2 others showed up after I got there. So, unfortunately I got no crowd vibe from the movie...and it needs it. Or else a lot of beer -- but one or the other anyway.

My over all grade: C.

My thought is that the director and everyone else working on the movie, were NOT on the same page when composing this. One group wanted one thing, another group wanted something else. For some it was a love story, for others an adventure file, but they just couldn't get the 2 to sync together.

I also got the feeling while watching the movie that the director was a perpetual C student in dialog classes. All the dialog was done such that it was good enough. Not great, just OK. You especially get this while watching Mos Def as Ford Perfect. But I also don't think it was his fault. I've seen him be funny. But in this movie, most of his lines were flat.

Where was the problem: the editing. Whoever oversaw the cutting of the movie needs some help. This was probably the worst cut film I've ever seen...or they spent too much time watching Napoleon Dynamite. The camera switched back and forth between people at odd times, and lulled on others for too long. It totally broke the flow of the movie. That was the major reason this film isn't great.

Other than that, the movie has some very funny parts, and some of the parts that could have been funny weren't. The parts that were added worked well with the rest of the movie (I'm not comparing the movie to the book). The Volgons were great. The special effects were great. But things were still very choppy.