Per Anhalter durch die Galaxis

Ich habe nicht gedacht, dass es gelingen könnte, eine so gute Adaption von "Per Anhalter durch die Galaxis" zu machen. Und doch! Das Drehbuch hält sich liebevoll an die Vorlage, und wenn es etwas Neues hinzufügt, was nicht von Douglas Adams stammt, ist es adamsmäßig verrückt, witzig und es wirkt natürlich. Man merkt einfach, dass an dem Film Menschen gearbeitet haben, die ihn wirklich machen wollten. Das trifft auch auf die Schauspieler*innen, die absolut tolle Ausstattung, die Puppen von Jim Henson (die Vogonen sehen wie lebendig aus) mit schön bunten Computereffekten (die in der Zukunft z. B. zum Spielfilm-Red Dwarf passen würden – ich habe die Hoffnung immer noch nicht aufgegeben) und die verspielte Musik zu. Der einzige Makel ist die völlig unbegreiflich fehlende Erklärung der wichtigen Bedeutung vom Handtuch. Mich hat es nicht gestört. Auf eine Reise durch die Galaxis hätte ich als treuer Leser mindestens zwei Handtücher und zweiundvierzig Reservehandtücher mitgenommen. Die uneingeweihten Zuschauer*innen haben sich aber bestimmt gefragt: "Was, zum Teufel, machen sie damit?“. (29.02.2016)

I haven’t read the book, so I liked it much more than most people (who have read it), so I will have the last laugh when I get around to reading the book, because I will relive the fun while the rest of you had to suffer the (supposedly) less funny hundred and nine minutes of the movie. Ha Ha Ha. P.S.: Marvin rocks. (18.01.2013)

I have had Douglas Adams' famous book in my library for a long time, right next to the Red Dwarf series. While I revisit Red Dwarf in both TV and book format, and it still has a pleasant charm for me, I haven't been able to read the literary masterpiece that is "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" yet due to lack of time. Considering how negatively the movie affected me, it will gather dust for a while. It probably won't be months, but years, because the film left me with a desperately humorless, and even repulsive impression. The potential was there, but something went wrong; it needed a much more experienced filmmaker than the debutant Garth Jennings. Overall impression: 25%. (15.03.2017)

Quite decent considering the possibilities. I was fascinated by “The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy” (the book, the first part), but by “The Restaurant at the End of the Universe”, Adams’ style had saturated me already. I watched the film after reading the book and there’s a lot of the book in it, all the main jokes are there, but a lot of things are different… I think it could have been done better, but I don’t know how. I don’t know how I would mix fidelity to the source material and changes in order to produce a film that would be convincing on its own. One way or another, it would surely result in some absurd hybrid that everyone would perceive differently. (29.07.2011)

Much more enjoyable and especially funnier than the British series from the eighties. Marvin is effortlessly divine, Zooey or Rockwell a bit surprisingly annoying, and as a whole, it is a cautiously maturing and reliably absurd comedy that, unfortunately, was mostly unappreciated by viewers (including myself) at the time of its creation. (13.08.2006)