Per Anhalter durch die Galaxis (2005)

Per Anhalter durch die Galaxis: Directed by Garth Jennings. With Bill Bailey, Anna Chancellor, Warwick Davis, Yasiin Bey. Mere seconds before the Earth is to be demolished by an alien construction crew, journeyman Arthur Dent is swept off the planet by his friend Ford Prefect, a researcher penning a new edition of “The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy.”

“Itu0026#39;s a tad hard to put my feelings about this version of the source material seeing as how I heard the radio play, read the books, saw the amazingly great mini-series, and even played the delightful text-based adventure game on my now ancient, then new computer. Itu0026#39;s somewhat difficult to divorce my self from all of the aforementioned incarnations and just enjoy this film for what it was. Not to say that it was anything horrid, far from it. Some aspects of the adaption were pretty good. Martin Freeman (who was great in u0026quot;The Office) made an enjoyable Arthur Dent, Mos Def came off far better than I would have even thought as Ford. Those are two things of the top of my head. Iu0026#39;m sure if I were hard pressed I could think of other aspects I enjoyed, itu0026#39;s just that all in all the movie fails sadly. It goes off on tangents trying to capture more of the books than can be fathomed in a film of 109 minutes and throws in itu0026#39;s own sub-plots that I wasnu0026#39;t quite fond of. My humble opinion ultimately would be to stick with the early 80u0026#39;s mini-series as that will likely be the definitive adaption that weu0026#39;ll likely see on either the big or small screen.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eMy Grade: C+”