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The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy is a British-American science fiction comedy film directed by Garth Jennings , based upon previous works in the media franchise of the same name , created by Douglas Adams.
Adams co-wrote the screenplay with Karey Kirkpatrick but died in , before production began; the film is dedicated to him. The film begins with a Broadway-style number, "So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish", sung by the dolphins of the world, who are aware of the Earth's impending doom. At the end, they all jump out of the oceans and fly off into space, leaving Earth for good.
One Thursday morning, Arthur Dent discovers that his house is to be immediately demolished to make way for a bypass. He tries delaying the bulldozers by lying down in front of them. Ford Prefect , a friend of Arthur's, convinces him to go to a pub with him. Over a pint of beer as "muscle relaxant" , Ford explains that he is an alien from a planet in the vicinity of Betelgeuse , and a journalist working on the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy , a universal guide book, and that the Earth is to be demolished later that day by a race called Vogons , to make way for a hyperspace bypass.
Suddenly, a Vogon Constructor Fleet appears in the sky and destroys the planet. Ford saves himself and Arthur by stowing away on a Vogon ship. When discovered, they are thrown out of an airlock, but are picked up by the starship Heart of Gold. He has stolen the ship along with Tricia "Trillian" McMillan , an Earth woman whom Arthur had met previously, and Marvin the Paranoid Android , a clinically depressed robot that constantly complains about life. Zaphod explains that he is seeking the planet Magrathea , where he believes he can discover the Question of Life, the Universe, and Everything to match with the answer "42" given by the supercomputer Deep Thought.
Zaphod stole the Heart of Gold to use its improbability drive to get to Magrathea through trial and error. During one of these attempts, they end up on the planet Viltvodle VI. Zaphod decides to visit Humma Kavula , his opponent from the election. Upon learning of Zaphod's plan, Kavula announces that he has the coordinates to Magrathea. He takes one of Zaphod's two heads hostage and demands they bring him the Point-of-View gun created by Deep Thought, which allows the target to understand the shooter's point of view.
As they are leaving the planet, Trillian is captured by Vogons. The others travel to rescue her from the Vogon home world bureaucracy, facing long lines and frustrating form processing.
Trillian learns of the Earth's destruction, and is outraged to learn that Zaphod signed the authorisation for the destruction of Earth thinking it was a request for an autograph. The Heart of Gold is chased by the Vogons, led by Galactic Vice-President Questular Rontok , who is attempting to rescue Zaphod from himself, after an incident in which Zaphod kidnapped himself in order to forgo presidential duties.
The Heart of Gold arrives at Magrathea, narrowly avoiding the planet's automated missile defense systems. On the planet, Zaphod, Ford, and Trillian take a portal to Deep Thought, but Arthur hesitates, and the portal closes before he and Marvin can use it.
The trio encounter the computer and ask it whether it has calculated the ultimate question, it reveals that it designed another supercomputer to do so—Earth. When the trio finds the Point-of-View gun, Trillian shoots Zaphod, making him understand how she feels about the destruction of Earth, as well as how much she loves Arthur.
Meanwhile, a Magrathean called Slartibartfast appears and takes Arthur on a tour of the factory construction floor where Earth Mark II is being built. Slartibartfast takes Arthur to a recreation of his home on the new Earth, where the others are enjoying a feast provided by the pan-dimensional beings who commissioned Arthur's original Earth, and who resemble a pair of mice.
The mice, who constructed Deep Thought, used the supercomputer to build an even larger supercomputer, the planet Earth, to determine the Ultimate Question. Believing Arthur, the last remaining supercomputer component, may hold the Ultimate Question, the mice restrain Arthur in order remove his brain. Initially panicking, a resigned Arthur futilely attempts to dissuade them from doing so, admitting that the only question that ever mattered to him was whether Trillian was "the one", the answer to which Arthur realises is "yes".
But the mice continue, unconvinced, believing Arthur's Question to be "Tripe", and wanting to be famous rather than happy.
Arthur panics again, but, as his survival insincts kick in, Arthur breaks free of his restraints and squashes the mice under a teapot. The mice, returning to their original forms, disappear into thin air, never to be seen again.
Outside the house, the group is then confronted by Vogons, who open fire. As the group takes shelter, Marvin is left outside and, despite being shot in the back of the head, recovers and uses the Point-of-View gun on the Vogons, causing them to become depressed and unable to fight. As the Vogons are taken away and Questular rejoins with Zaphod, Arthur chooses to explore the galaxy with Trillian and lets Slartibartfast finalise the new Earth without him.
In a Slashdot interview, Robbie Stamp , one of the film's executive producers, stated the following about the cast of the film: Stamp also commented on how large a role the studio and screenwriters other than Adams played in making the film:. Shooting was completed in August and the movie was released on 28 April in Europe, Australia and New Zealand, and on the following day in Canada and the United States. The film trailer featured voice over work by Stephen Fry as the Guide, describing the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy ' s entry on movie trailers.
An audio collection called "Additional Guide Entries", read by Stephen Fry , was released to iTunes to promote the film. The "Hitchhiker's Guide to Technology" claims that if you make yourself a cup of tea and attempt to get an object working and the tea goes cold before you finish, you are dealing with technology.
Other guides include the Hitchhiker's Guide to Blogging , the Hitchhiker's Guide to Deadlines and the Hitchhiker's Guide to How to be Cool which discusses how an individual can truly be cool, instead of by following crowds, but concludes by suggesting the listener attend a showing of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.
The Guide to Websites , which only appeared on the official UK movie website, described a website as "a wonderful new invention that allows people you neither know nor care about to inform you what they had for breakfast this morning, without all that tedious mucking about in the postal system".
The Guide to Fanboys , written by Touchstone Pictures ' copywriters as part of their promotion of the movie, only ever appeared as website text. The site's consensus reads: However, it may have those unfamiliar with the source material scratching their heads. Roger Ebert , gave the film two stars out of four, writing:. You will find the movie tiresomely twee, and notice that it obviously thinks it is being funny at times when you do not have the slightest clue why that should be.
You will hear dialogue that preserves the content of written humor at the cost of sounding as if the characters are holding a Douglas Adams reading I do not get the joke. I do not much want to get the joke, but maybe you will To me, it got old fairly quickly. The movie was more of a revue than a narrative, more about moments than an organising purpose. Manohla Dargis called it "hugely likable" with a story arc structured "more or less" as "a long beginning and then an ending"; she calls Jim Henson's Creature Shop 's Vogons "beautifully constructed" and noted that Sam Rockwell 's performance is "sensational, But it doesn't do justice to the open-ended inventiveness of the original.
The inevitable Anglo-American accommodations of casting have muddled its identity and the performances of the new American stars can be uneasy. It somehow seems heavier-footed and slower-moving than Adams's concept; the gravity is stronger The savour and flavour of the Adams original, its playfully ruminative feel, has been downgraded in favour of a jolly but less interesting outerspace romp.
Philip French , after describing the Vogons as "a species resembling Laughton's version of Quasimodo " and writing it is "not, except in its financing, anything resembling a standard Hollywood production", called the film "slightly old-fashioned few things date as rapidly as science fiction and our view of the future and somewhat commonplace through its embracing familiar special effects.
The jokes have to compete with the hardware and the actors executing them often exude a feeling of desperation It's funnier, and obviously cleverer, than Spaceballs , Mel Brooks's puerile spoof on Star Wars , but a good bit less engaging than Galaxy Quest. In the United States, the movie remained in the box office top ten for its first four weeks of release.
I had dinner with him and he said [the first one] just didn't do well enough. The movie was nominated for seven different awards and won one. Action and Choice Rap Artist in a Movie: The complete motion picture soundtrack was released as an iTunes Music Store exclusive in the United States and the United Kingdom on 12 April , two weeks before the scheduled CD release.
The iTunes Music Store also has two further exclusive sets of tracks related to the movie:. The CD has the same 33 tracks as the previous iTunes release.
The track "Huma's Hymn" on the soundtrack is notable for the fact that it was sung in St. Michael's Church in Highgate , London by members of local church choirs along with a congregation consisting of members of the public. The recording was open to anyone wishing to attend, and was publicised on the internet, including in a post to the Usenet group alt.
The first version of the song "So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish" is a Broadway-style, lively version sung by the dolphins before they leave Earth. The second plays over the end credits and is in the style of Smooth jazz. Neil Hannon , founder and frontman of the Irish pop group The Divine Comedy , of which Talbot is a former member, lent his vocals to the version of the song played during the ending credits.
Both a standard double disc edition and a UK-exclusive "Gift Set" edition were released on this date. The standard double disc edition features:. The "Gift Set" edition includes a copy of the novel with a "movie tie-in" cover, and collectible prints from the film, packaged in a replica of the film's version of the Hitchhiker's Guide prop.
They have a different cover, but contain the same special features except the Don't Crash documentary as the UK version. Single disc releases in the UMD format for the PlayStation Portable were also released on the respective dates in these three countries. The movie was made available as a paid download in the iTunes Store starting in September , for the American market only.
A region-free Blu-ray Disc version was released in January From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Theatrical release poster. Douglas Adams Karey Kirkpatrick.
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