I have to say that it was expected to see some bad reviews of this movie coming out, especially from die hard fans of the original book and television series.
When any work which already has such a huge following is made into a movie then the chances are that some of the fans will not like the finished work. Still, saying that, when the work is touted as being faithful to the original and the review is so bad, you gotta think.
I’m not going to go into all the links, fair to say go read the FilmRot article, here’s the quote from the review mediamelt carries:
It’s bad on a big scale because enormous swathes of the story have been dispensed with Рmost of the Guide entries, whole scenes Рor changed beyond all recognition. And it is bad on a small scale because many, many wonderful lines have been cut or in some cases actually rewritten to make them less funny. Whatever your favourite line from Hitchhiker’s, there’s a good chance that it won’t be in the film. Even if it’s really well-known, widely-quoted, much-loved, very funny Рit will probably be absent from the movie. Or if it is there, it might have been changed
A lot of that sounds very harsh, I mean is he saying they’ve changed the entire script? I’m not so sure it can really be that bad, is it perhaps that the reviewer is one of the hardest fans you can find and would think that anything is blasphemous? Well we’ll have to wait and see what other reviews come out, or until we see the film ourselves.
