If you’ve seen the new movie adaptation of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, I empathize. If you haven’t seen it, please do yourself a favour and rent a video instead. I was in pain throughout the movie. It is, in the very best sense of the word, crap.
It baffles me how a producer can take a hilarious script/novel with a proven track record, and then mangle it so badly that there’s nothing actually funny in it anymore. After they gutted it, twisted it, deleted all the quirky humour, what was left was almost but not quite entirely unlike a story by Douglas Adams.
Every scene should have been subtitled “Hey, look! We’re being wacky now, aren’t we? Yes! So wacky!” It’s just so… depressing.