“Space is big, really big”

“You just won’t believe how vastly, hugely, mind bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it is a long way down the road to the chemist, but that’s just peanuts to space.”

…and so on.

As an adjunct to today’s blockbusting “Hitchhiker’s” review, here’s a handy guide to our own wee corner of the universe—

http://astro.neutral.org/imagehtml/scale.html

—so that noone can accuse you of not taking an interest in local affairs.

The Hitchhiker’s Guide to The Galaxy

[“The Hitchhiker’s Guide to The Galaxy” poster art]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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