The Hitchhikers Guide To The Galaxy.

Advantages: It's quite funny, looks nice, some good cast choices.
Disadvantages: A lot of it it isn't funny, some the cast border on useless.

...It would be easy for me to start a review of The Hitchhikers Guide To The Galaxy with the words "Don't panic". This would of course be a cheap gag, which is why I won't be doing any such thing. I'll also assure you now that I will not end this review with a comment like "so long and thanks for all the fish". This kind of comment would seem out of place in a film review. The wonderful thing about the writing of Douglas Adams is that he can take ridiculously absurd concepts and make them seem acceptable. It's a shame then that he didn't have all that much to do with this film version. Sure, he is credited as co-writer, and I know he wrote several versions of a screenplay before his death, but what we are left with here is something much less rounded and just too random for it's own good. Overall though, Hitchhikers is...

eddie7sf 04.05.2005 · Read review
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Review of Hitchhikers Guide To The Galaxy.

Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy

Advantages: Some very funny parts, nice cast
Disadvantages: (apparently) Doesn't meet expectations if you've seen prior attempts

...Trillian. Cast Includes: Martin Freeman Arthur Dent Mos Def Ford Prefect Zooey Deschanel Trillian Sam Rockwell Zaphod Beeblebrox Stephen Fry Narrator/The Guide (voice of) Warwick Davis Marvin (voice by Alan Rickman) and others .... Casting is often one point where other reviews claim the movie falls down, but I like the casting. Sam Rockwell is great as bumbling idiot Zaphod and Zooey Deschanel makes a good Trillian. I also really liked that Stephen Fry was the voice of the book, it seemed to fit him well, although was a little strange to hear a british accent among all those Americans. I wasn't a fan of the animation that went with many of the Guide entries though as they seemed to distract away from what was actually being said in voice over. The newly designed Marvin (Warwick Davis in the costume, Alan Rickman...

liz1102 04.06.2006 (15.06.2006) · Read review
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Review of The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy DVD (2005)

Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy (2005)

Advantages: great special effects
Disadvantages: nowhere near as good as the original

.... But this is just the beginning of his problems. Unknown to Arthur and indeed the rest of the human population of the planet, it seems the Earth itself is scheduled for demolition to make way for a new hyperspace bypass making his initial predicament seem trivial in comparison. Of course being only the third most intelligent species on the planet (dolphins being the second and mice being the first) doesn't help and the dolphins having tried in vain to warn humans of the impending destruction of the planet quietly leave the planet leaving humans to fend for themselves. Still with me? Arthur's best mate, a chap called Ford Prefect turns out not to be human at all. Ford is actually an alien researcher for the 'Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy' a sort of galactic guide book for travellers and he only popped by to update the guide on its entry...

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Review of The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy DVD (2005)

Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy

Advantages: Roomy,comfortable, good on motorways
Disadvantages: Thirsty, high tax, poor on country roads

...Hitch hiking is getting to be a dying art. As a driver of a company car I know it is actually against the rules of my company to give them a lift. A shame really. In these days of environmental problems and absence of low cost public transport isn’t it a little sad that transport by thumb power is so frowned upon. Of course safety is a big issue nowadays and picking up strangers can have inherent risk for the hiker and the driver. As TAFKAP might say ‘A Sign Of The Times’. My company car is now a Ford Galaxy and just in order to have my review match the title and avoid the shopping list approach to car reviews I will give it from a potential hitch hikers point of view. Firstly of course the hitch hiker will notice that the Galaxy is a roomy car. There would be a seat for you even if the car already 6 people in...

polydeuces 08.06.2002 · Read review
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Review of Ford Galaxy 2.3

Super Galaxies of Fun

Advantages: Full of fun, especially for children
Disadvantages: Missing some traditional Mario cast-members

...Nintendo's flagship series makes its way to the Wii, with "Super Mario Galaxy". It's always a challenge to find a household that won't benefit from a Mario game, given their guaranteed appeal to children and kids-at-heart, and "Galaxy" makes that challenge harder with joyous gameplay that should also entice gamers looking for more mature video-game experiences. The Story The Mushroom Kingdom is in merry colours as it prepares for the Stardust Festival: A celebration coinciding with the mysterious comet that fills the skies every one hundred years, causing a star shower as impressive as it is peculiar. Princess Peach invites our hero Mario over and he predictably arrives just in time to see the Princess doing what she does best: get kidnapped. To be fair, there's not much you can do when the kidnapper uproots the whole...

Magrippinho 15.12.2007 · Read review
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Review of Super Mario Galaxy (Wii)

The Rolling Gizmo Galaxy Drove Me Nuts!

Advantages: Excellent game
Disadvantages: The rolling Gizmo Galaxy

...When i had my beloved Nintendo Wii "i had so much fun" using it and one of my favourite games indeed was this one. I had played Mario games on other systems such as the Nintendo 64 and the Dream Cast but Mario Sunshine left me frustrated and ready to throw the darn Dream Cast out the window because i got so far in it then i just couldn't get past one particular level "no matter how hard" that i tried and Super Mario 64 was brilliant but i never got round to finishing it. When i got my Nintendo Wii last Christmas, i was so excited about getting it and i had picked a few particular games one of them being the brilliant Sims Castaway. I have always loved The Sims games so for the first while although Super Mario Galaxy was sitting there i hardly ever used it. After my brother's reminding me for the hundreth time how good it was supposed to...

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Hitch Hikers Guide To The Galaxy- A must read

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...There cannot be many books funnier than the Hitch Hikers guide to the galaxy. The book is the first part of a trilogy of 4 or is that 5! It starts out with Arthur Dent who ends up being saved from death by his friend from Betelgeuse(although he did not know his friend was an alien at the time). Arthur survived but the Earth did not because it was demolished to make way for a sort of cosmic bypass. The story then follows Arthur Dent as he travels the Universe looking for the meaning of life and even makes an ultimately futile attempt to save the Earth by going back in time and trying to help Mankinds evolution along a little. This book and the ones that follow have many hilarious moments and also a bit of philosophy and should be required reading by law!...

mightythor 12.07.2000 · Read review
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Review of The Hitchhiker's Guide to The Galaxy - Douglas Adams

Galaxy Cookie Crumble

Advantages: It's Galaxy...
Disadvantages: ...very odd texture

...The debate will forever continue ? Cadbury?s versus Galaxy. Well, here?s a sideshow to the main event ? the new (ish) Galaxy Cookie Crumble. This six-piece chocolate bar is the regular smooth Galaxy chocolate with an added crunch. Galaxy?s regular chocolate bar is renowned for being ?smooth? ? chocolate you can?t help but try and melt in your mouth, but this has a serious twist. After taking the bar out of the wrapper ? which is extremely like the normal Galaxy bar so try not to get the two confused ? it seems like ordinary Galaxy on top, but on the bottom you can see ripples in the chocolate from the shards of cookie splattered about. Biting into the bar and the cookie pieces are instantly noticable. In all honesty, I can understand why so many people are undecided about this bar as the pieces are sharp, hard and uncomfortable if...

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Review of Mars Galaxy Cookie Crumble

Super Mario Galaxy

Advantages: Great Gameplay, Amazing Graphics, Nice soundtrack
Disadvantages: None

...mario themes. There is hardly any voice acting but I prefer Mario games with minimal voice acting. This is a great add to the game. Overall, Super Mario Galaxy is one of the best games. It is definately a must buy for anyone who owns a Wii....

Mirza93 30.08.2008 · Read review
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The Wackiest Galaxy in the World

Advantages: Brilliant characters, clever humour, brilliantly read
Disadvantages: Can't think of any, even though I listen to this over and over again

...the actual storyline. We start our story in the middle of one normal Thursday, with our perfectly normal human Arthur Dent, who is in the middle of protesting against some bulldozers trying to knock down his house. The clever bit, the twist? Arthur Dents best friend Ford Prefect is in fact actually an alien from a small planet somewhere in the vicinity of Betelguese. Don’t worry, I am not giving anything away, this is one of the first facts you discover when you listen to the tape And where does the Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy come in? Well Ford Prefect just happens to be working on the new revised edition, in fact, that his why he came to Earth in the first place. The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy is renound for it’s front cover, which has Don’t Panic written on it in large friendly letters. Although...

jeocar 19.12.2001 · Read review
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Review of The Hitch-Hiker's Guide To The Galaxy (Audio Book) - Douglas Adams