Google really does know everything.

[Ghost]

That, and casting a woman for the voice of Deep Thought totally ruined the biggest joke in the whole damn thing.

What exact joke would that be? Yes, they should have sticked to the male voice- I've always read that as a bit of a Deus Ex Machina reference, but where exactly is there a joke?

I'm once again *very* surprised how hot, long and deep a discussion can go. It seems to me these days there are far too many arguments about movies, with too many people broadcasting their rock-solid opinions. Spider-Man 3 was both the worst and the best movie of the series. Nobody likes Pirates 2 because it was flat and everybody considers it to be superior to Part 1, and in my watering hole there is a photo of me, pinned to the dartboard, just because I once officially stated I actually found the movie Monkey Bone quite entertaining. Why not consider a movie what it is- a matter of taste? I mean, millions of people have praised movies like Dogma, Meaning Of Life, The Matrix, and millions can't find the smallest bit of interest for these same movies. Does that mean that they are great, and one million people is wrong, or that they're bad, and the other million's wrong? Or could it just be that they are a part of a thing we humans have called entertainment, and that each and everyone can have his, her or its own oppinion about it?

I don't want to preach here, though. In the end, the answer's always 42.

[LimpingFish]

The level of nerdology in this thread is stifling.

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[Esseb]

If it helps validate your opinions, if pressed to give a star rating (of 1 to 5) I'd have given the books 5 stars and the movie 3. Perfectly enjoyable, though not really comparable.

[Andail]

H2G2 is mainly funny because of the ingenious language. I don't think the comedy in those novels lies in what the characters actually do, I think it's in the textual descriptions  of them, their looks and thoughts etc. The innovative phrasings with which he conveyed pretty corny jokes, most of which only computer geeks in high school can still truly appreciate after all these years. I mean, who's actually still laughing out loud every time they hear the 42 reference?

The glory with the novels is that you can re-read them all the time; you may remember the jokes themselves, but not the language and the formulations, and they'll keep you amused forever.

The movie lacked everything I personally enjoyed with the novels.