saw the movie. now that i have, i'll respond to people's opinions
first, i liked the dolphin song too. once i heard it i was afraid they were going to go into a rap or rock or spanish or some other stupid thing (re: shrek) but they just did a regular silly song. that was cool.
The jokes seemed to be delivered all too quickly and all wrong. The story seemed to be all over the place. The guide entries seemed too goofy: they looked like they were all done in Flash.
i don't hate flash as much as some people here do, so i guess i found it ok. it wasn't amazing, but it was adequate, and (responding to fitlike) i didn't really think the tv series' animation was all that good.
I hated the new direction that they took the story in (ew, love story), and I couldn't stand how goofy the Vogon guards looked.
the love story was kinda expected and it didn't really bother me. it wasn't like it was pulled out of thin air (although very close to it). i read somewhere that they designed the vogon guards to look similar to the way they look in the tv series, for historical purposes.
Zaphod seemed to sound way too much like George Bush.
they both sounded like idiots to me
The pacing seemed way off, making the movie feel about 10 hours long.
yes, but it didn't seem that bad to me. it just wasn't laugh out loud funny, more of a comfortable funny, a british funny.
Yeah, come to think of it they didn't. He just sort of appears!
i guess the vogons and that woman (what was her role, anyway?) picked up marvin and brought him there.
For example, there's a scene where Ford walks into a bar, and everyone yells "Ixy!!"
what does this reference?
***SPOILER***
overall i liked the movie. the improbability drive was really funny, to me anyway. the second head was rather disturbing... i was relieved when they killed it off (for all intents and purposes). the two subplots i noticed that weren't in the book (rescuing trillian and the adventure before they got to magaratha(sp)) were well done and kept to the story as well as they could have. i mean, if you expect a literal adaptation of a book, you might as well film an old guy reading it aloud.
actually, zaphod beeblebrox freaked me out in general. was he meant to be not quite there all the time? the movie seemed to bring him in and out of coherent consciousness just in time to do something major but then he drifted off again while the rest of the movie went on.
marvin sounded and acted like i thought he would, which is a plus. his role at the end of the movie made me and my friends (who had never read the book) laugh out loud. arthur was who i expected him to be, but he somehow acted both insignificant and upbeat at the same time. that's a plus, since it makes a character who's meant to be boring in a book more interesting to watch.