The awful "so long, and thanks for all the fish" opening number really kills the "start" of this movie. The film is about 15 minutes in and then the earth is destroyed and then they cue "Journey of the sorcerer" and the film really starts. I was almost in tears. On the whole, the cast were well placed, I don't think Steve Pemberton tried to put anything new into Prosser which was a shame. Martin freeman, despite the fact that I wanted so badly to hate him did a good job being his own Arthur without straying too far from Simon Jones' original characterization.
Marvins new body was iffy but the nods to the original Marvin (in the queue @ the Vogon forms office and the Mic used to read poetry - it really looked like old Marvin's face). i like that the Vogons are in business suits as they are sticklers for forms and law. very cool. I don't think anyone truly explained the word Belgium to the performers or it wouldn't have been used where it was, very poorly. I think the gun shoot-out on Arthur's lawn was a revised version of the shooty & bang-bang galactic cops scene from the series.
The slapstick "thinking" scene on Vogsphere was bloody dire & pointless. trillian lent nothing new to her own role, no-one seemed to have researched Zaphod's outfit @ the islington party where Arthur & trillian meet. What was all this about Arthur's job @ the BBC, that must have been cut as it was never even hinted at. the John Malkovitch scenes were pointless, go get into a storyline that isn't concluded. i think the DVD release will have so much to put back into the film. I get the point this was 2hrs 30 minutes long & cut badly to fit under 2 hrs. Go see it for yourself. I just wish i could go back to that boy in 1979 & tell him not to bother waiting that long.
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