****Just thought I would be nice to people who might happen to read this and haven’t seen the movie*****

I have to agree fully with this review. The same thing happened in the theater I attended. You could tell who had read the books and who hadn’t. I believe the reason the movie was so different from the books were due to the fact that Adams himself had wanted it to be so. He didn’t want the movie to be a direct adaptation due to the fact that the people who read the books already would feel like they were just reliving them again. While, not a bad thing, it wouldn’t give the viewer a new experience. It was bothering me where I had seen Trillian before but I finally realized (She played the girl from Elf.) If you looked closely in the scene on Vogosphere in the line you can see the original Marvin from the BBC television series. Overall, I would have to say I was very satisfied with the film. It wasn’t as funny as all of the books but that’s because the books had a more long-running humor quality that depended on narration mainly that would be difficult, if not impossible, to translate to film. I was glad they included some elements, and wished there were others too. I thought Ford’s character was greatly minimized in place of Zaphod’s but Marvin was done incredibly well. (Poor Vogon’s, if only they didn’t know the despair that is Marvin’s personality.) I wished it was longer so they could encompass everything but that would require a 10 hour movie to get it all in and there is no way that would have happened. Oh well. Not dissapointed in the least though.