Love this reviewer!

He reminds me of my fav (and local) Jon Carroll.
Abject admiration for his fluency in selecting the exact nuance and no mistake about it. Such precision that - either s/he's Dead-on or a Masterful Liar; sucked me in.

AND.. my (other fav) San Jose Ch 54/KTEH is rebroadcasting original HGTTG of late, so I need not rely on just the little grey cells' refresh-rate.

The contrast of the lines

"I eventually had to go down to the cellar to find them."
"But you found the plans, didn't you?"

- with the Original - says {not quite, It All}.

Lose the fucking humour!
[Worse - not even notice that you Are doing that! D'Oh...]
Lose the raison d'\ufffdtre, Kernel, root-of-the-Eigenfunction, catalyst, leitmotif, Soul! of the essence of the Gzornenplatz.

{sigh} {SHITE!} just like that truly-FUCKED Dr. Who "movie" many years past; still reeking.
There: 'they' imagined that gratuitous sex-with-Companions would fit the neo _{lowered sensibilities of the demographic blah blah.}

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Cutting-to-chase: the perspicuity of Whoever is Magrethea, summarised neatly in this conclusion of the [non-spoiler] Review:

The Hitchhiker\ufffds Guide to the Galaxy movie is an abomination. Whereas the radio show, TV show, books and computer game are all recognisably variations on a theme, this is something new and almost entirely unrelated. It\ufffds not even a good film if viewed as an original work: the characters are unsympathetic, the cast exhibit no chemistry, the direction is pedestrian, the pace plodding, the special effects overpowering (lots and lots of special effects, none of them funny mind you) and above all the script is amazingly, mindbogglingly awful. Oh, and they have taken most of the jokes out.

This is a terrible, terrible film and it makes me want to weep.

-- does at least bolster the nearly-snuffed hope that -- not Everyone on the planet {yet} has become infected with Neoconman/Jesus/lobotomy neurasthenia:
ie just maybe the current retrograde miasma is Not a permanent suppurating boil on the asshole of homo-sap! Weep a l\ufffd Niobe indeed.
(And I haven't even read all of the main review, yet)

Pity. Cubed. All that wasted $\ufffdM - to produce a garment made of Pure Shit. Not worth the trauma of 'viewing'. As you say. :(


moi
Let's let Magrathea produce the redeeming-Next version!
After we kill all the MBAs. After the lawyers are at the bottom of the Marianas Trench. With the found-out brain-eating Neoconmen of all Nationalities.