Er, it’s quite good actually. Go see it.

All the actually funny lines are Douglas Adams’, but the filmmakers make rather a decent fist of the whole thing, and avoid screwing it up completely.

Definitely better than I was expecting.

There has been too much newsprint spilt over this film already, so here are the differences from what 3 million people have already said 8 trillion times:
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Curate’s* egg. Go see it.

(*Or a priest’s, or some other religious type, holding aloft a crucific and warding off the encroaching armies of demonic pestilance, in graphic CGI.)

I probably went to see this movie in the wrong frame of mind. It’s nonsense. And if you don’t approach it too cynically†, you’ll enjoy it. At any rate, it has some power beyond the narrative, and the images stayed in my head long after I watched it, which is quite a compliment for a nonsensical movie.

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Dead good. Go and see it.

It’s been a while since I’ve been to see a smart film, and—don’t get me wrong—dumb films can be really fantastic fun. (I’m even looking forward to The Hitchhiker’s Guide to The Galaxy.) But sometimes it’s nice to get your cinematic teeth into a bit of film that makes you think. (That doesn’t read quite right… You know what I mean.)

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