01 May 2005

Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

The Book looks a little more like an iPod advertisement than I would have pictured, Trillion is a little less intelligent than she should have been, and I was hoping to reach the restaurant at the end of the universe -- but the only real blunder was how silly Marvin looked. And that's saying something, because with this classic, there was lots of room for error.

As a fan since I first listened to bootleg cassette recordings of the original BBC broadcast in the early 80s -- and as someone who realizes now that I picked up more than a few verbal quirks derived from Adams' laconic style -- I can say: Recommended, though if you're a fan already, you'll already know all the punch lines.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0371724/