Douglas Adams's Biographer: H2G2 Movie Stinks

This isn't the first review of the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy movie, but it is the first by someone who can really be called an authority. He is the biographer of Douglas Adams, and has thus studied the H2G2 movies, radio shows, TV shows, and stage plays. His evaluation of the new film? Sounds like the director doesn't know where his towel is! Oh, and a warning on the link. There are spoilers, though the author also offers a spoilers-free version.

Really bad. You just won't believe how vastly, staggeringly, jaw-droppingly bad it is. I mean, you might think that The Phantom Menace was a hopelessly misguided attempt to reinvent a much-loved franchise by people who, though well-intentioned, completely failed to understand what made the original popular - but that's just peanuts to the Hitchhiker's movie. Listen.

The part that makes me REALLY worried is how much the reviewer dwells on the fact that classic Adams dialogue - the stuff that made every incarnation work - has been cut out, cut up, and in some cases replaced with generic sitcom humor. Sigh. I'll still see it, but you may consider my expectations significantly lowered.