The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
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Actor: Mark Wing Davy, Simon JonesBrand: WEA
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown), Dolby Digital 5.1; English (Subtitled); Mandarin Chinese (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); French (Subtitled); German (Subtitled); Indonesian (Subtitled); Korean (Subtitled); Thai (Subtitled); English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 5.1
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD, NTSC, Subtitled
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 60 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2005-10-04
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Model: E2357
Studio: BBC Worldwide
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- With the galaxy's best-selling tour guide and a good towel, earthling Arthur Dent and Ford Prefect (actually from planet Betelgeuse) are transported, among other places, to the Restaurant at the End of the Universe and back to the beginning of time.Running Time: 60 min. Format: DVD MOVIE Genre: SCI-FI/FANTASY Rating: NR Age: 794051235725 UPC: 794051235725 Manufactu
Movie Reviews of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Movie Review: The "extras" are easily as entertaining as the series itself.
Summary: 5 Stars
This BBC miniseries production of "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" takes place over what would eventually become the first of five books in "the increasingly inaccurately named Hitchhiker's Trilogy" is worth watching for their take on "the guide" which you'll picture in your mind every time you read the books and the theme music which will stick in your head until the Earth is destroyed to make way for a hyperspatial bypass.
Normally watching a movie or series based on a book after you've read the book(s) is painfully disappointing, but you will not be disappointed with this series which was written by Adams himself before (and while) the books were written. The series is fantastic, though the humour and production values wain slightly as it progresses and the visuals may look a bit dated by today's standards.
Keep your finger on the pause button during guide entries because there's no lorem ipsum filler and you'll miss out on some very good jokes if you don't.
The real prize here is the extras. Genuinely interesting captioned commentary, informative behind the scenes, entertaining interviews, and a lot more. Usually extras are tacked-on wastes of time that the publisher includes just to put something on the back cover, but on rare occasions, as in this case, when DVDs are produced by people who became fans of the very work they produced, you get extra material which is created with as much care as the movie/series itself. If you include the three hours to watch the series a second time in order to read the captioned commentary, there is over six hours of extra content, of which only a few minutes I found to be not worth watching.
If every DVD contained extras of this quality I think more people would buy DVDs.
Summary of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
With the galaxy's best-selling tour guide and a good towel, earthling Arthur Dent and Ford Prefect (actually from planet Betelgeuse) are transported, among other places, to the Restaurant at the End of the Universe and back to the beginning of time.The production values aren't the greatest here, but this adaptation does capture some of the ebullient, hilarious anarchy of Douglas Adams's book. Arthur Dent discovers that his friend, Ford Prefect, isn't human at all but an alien on assignment, writing for the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. Many of Adams's delicious asides are dropped off here, like the woman who figures out the meaning of life right at the moment that she gets blown up with the rest of the Earth, but it retains what it can. Sure, the book was better, and the realization of Zaphod Beeblebox and Trillian are, well, just different, but it's a great introduction to the series for the uninitiated. --Keith Simanton
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