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FREE THE HITCH HIKERS GUIDE TO THE GALAXY PDF Douglas Adams | 192 pages | 21 Apr 2005 | Orion Publishing Co | 9780575076822 | English | London, United Kingdom The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy () - IMDb As IMDb celebrates its 30th birthday, we have The Hitch Hikers Guide To The Galaxy shows to get you ready for those pivotal years of your life Get some streaming picks. Title: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Everyone has bad mornings. You wake up late, you stub your toe, you burn the toast, but for a man named Arthur Dent Martin Freemanthis goes far beyond a bad day. When he learns that a friend of his is actually an alien with advanced knowledge of Earth's impending destruction, he is transported off the Earth seconds before it is blown up to make way for a new hyperspace motorway. And as if that's not enough, throw in being wanted by the Police, Earth II, an insane electronic encyclopedia, no tea whatsoever, a chronically depressed robot and the search for the meaning of life, and you've got the greatest adventure off Earth. Written by radioactive. First, let me start by saying that this is a funny film. Like many others, I suspect, I was worried by the MJ Simpson negative review, but having seen the film I can't really understand what all the fuss was about. Personally, I am very happy that this version contains the new material. I don't want to sit in the cinema watching a line by line copy of the radio play, book, or TV series. Each of those stand by their own merit, and each were good largely because of the new material they contained. I think the cast did an excellent job, and although Zaphod wasn't quite how I pictured him, Sam Rockwell brought a freshness to the part which largely works. His portrayal of Zaphod as a guy who "thinks he is cool", rather than "is cool" works pretty well, and once you get over the southern drawl, he soon settles as a character. Ford is beautifully played, as are all the major characters. Admittedly, some of the criticisms that were voiced by Simpson have some justification, but most were simply overstated to support his general vitriolic attack on the "purity" of the film. In summary, go to see this film and don't worry. I'm looking forward to the DVD and I have all my fingers crossed for a sequel. Looking for something The Hitch Hikers Guide To The Galaxy watch? Choose an adventure below and discover your next favorite movie or TV show. Visit our What to Watch page. Sign In. Keep track of everything you watch; tell your friends. Full Cast and Crew. Release Dates. Official Sites. Company Credits. Technical Specs. Plot Summary. Plot Keywords. Parents Guide. External Sites. User Reviews. User Ratings. External Reviews. Metacritic Reviews. Photo Gallery. Trailers and Videos. Crazy Credits. Alternate Versions. Rate This. Mere seconds before the Earth is to be demolished by an alien construction crew, journeyman Arthur Dent is swept off the planet by his friend Ford Prefect, a researcher penning a new edition of "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. Director: Garth Jennings. Added to Watchlist. From metacritic. Editors' Picks: Week of July 26, Watched films. Best Comedy Movies About Me. Use the HTML below. You must be a registered user to use the IMDb rating plugin. User Polls Battle Royale! Get you anything from the bar? Edit Cast Cast overview, first billed only: Bill Bailey The Whale voice Anna Chancellor Questular Rontok Warwick Davis Marvin The Hitch Hikers Guide To The Galaxy Bey Trillian Su Elliot Arthur Dent Stephen Fry Jeltz voice Dominique Jackson Fook Simon Jones Ghostly Image Thomas Lennon Eddie the Computer voice Mark Longhurst Bulldozer Driver Kelly Macdonald Reporter John Malkovich Edit Storyline Everyone has bad mornings. Taglines: The most astonishing adventure in the universe begins when the world ends. Edit Did The Hitch Hikers Guide To The Galaxy Know? It has previously appeared as a radio series, two record albums, novels, a television series The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxya computer game, a stage show, a comic book, a video game The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy and a towel. Goofs When the mice say "To business! Although Arthur drinks from it once more and puts it down, it never appears in the saucer again. Quotes [ first lines ] The Book : It's an important and popular fact that things are not always what they seem. The second most intelligent creatures were of course dolphins who, curiously enough, had long known of the impending destruction of the planet earth. They had made many attempts to alert mankind to the danger, but most of their communications Crazy Credits After a couple of minutes of typical movie credits, there is a final, classic The Hitch Hikers Guide To The Galaxy entry. It refers to Arthur Dent carelessly speaking words about a towel, which ends up being interpreted by a pair of warring factions as a devastating insult. They then spend thousands of years coming to Earth bent on revenge, however "due to a terrible miscalculation of scale the entire battle fleet was accidentally swallowed by The Hitch Hikers Guide To The Galaxy small dog". The Hitch Hikers Guide To The Galaxy Guide concludes with the reassuring nugget of wisdom, "this sort of thing is going on all the time". Was this review helpful to you? Yes No Report this. Q: What is up with the towels? Q: Ford wasn't black in the books, was he? Language: English. Runtime: min. Color: Color. Edit page. October Streaming Picks. Back to School Picks. Clear your history. The Whale voice. Questular Rontok. Ford Prefect as Mos Def. Jeltz voice. Ghostly Image. Eddie the Computer voice. Humma Kavula. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Wikipedia Originally a radio comedy broadcast on BBC Radio 4 init was later adapted to other formats, including stage shows, novels, comic books, a TV seriesa video gameand feature film. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy has become an international multi-media phenomenon; the novels are the most widely distributed, The Hitch Hikers Guide To The Galaxy been translated into more than 30 languages by InBBC Radio 4 announced a 40th-anniversary celebration with Dirk Maggsone of the original producers, in charge. The broad narrative of Hitchhiker follows the misadventures The Hitch Hikers Guide To The Galaxy the last surviving man, Arthur Dentfollowing the demolition of the Earth by a Vogon constructor fleet to make way for a hyperspace bypass. Dent is rescued from Earth's destruction by Ford Prefect —a human-like alien writer for the eccentric, electronic travel guide The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy —by hitchhiking onto a passing Vogon spacecraft. Following his rescue, Dent explores the galaxy with Prefect and encounters Trilliananother human who had been taken from Earth prior to its destruction by the two-headed President of the Galaxy Zaphod Beeblebrox and the depressed Marvin, the Paranoid Android. Certain narrative details were changed among the various adaptations. Some editions used different spellings on the spine and title page. Both, however, repeat the statement that Adams decided in that "everyone should spell it the same way [one word, no hyphen ] from then on. The various versions follow the same basic plot but they are in many places mutually contradictory, as Adams rewrote the story substantially for each new adaptation. Dent's adventures intersect with several other characters: Ford Prefectan alien and a researcher for the eponymous guidebook, who rescues Dent from Earth's destruction; Zaphod BeeblebroxFord's eccentric semi-cousin and the Galactic President who has stolen the Heart of Golda spacecraft equipped with the Infinite Improbability Drive; the depressed robot Marvin the Paranoid Android ; and Trillianformerly known as Tricia McMillan, a woman Arthur once met at a party in Islington and, thanks to Beeblebrox's intervention, the only other human survivor of Earth's destruction. In their travels, Arthur comes to learn that the Earth was actually a giant supercomputer, created by another supercomputer, Deep Thought. Deep Thought had been built by its creators to give the answer to the "Ultimate Question of Life, the Universe, and Everything", which, after eons of calculations, was given simply as " 42 ". Deep Thought was then instructed to design the Earth supercomputer to determine what the Question actually is. The Earth was subsequently destroyed by the Vogons moments before its calculations were completed, and Arthur becomes the target of the descendants of the Deep Thought creators, believing his mind must hold the Question. With his friends' help, Arthur escapes and they decide to have lunch at The Restaurant at the End of the Universe, before embarking on further adventures. The first radio series comes from a proposal called "The Ends of the Earth": six self-contained episodes, all ending with Earth being destroyed in a different way. While writing the first episode, Adams realized that he needed someone on the planet who was an alien to provide some context, and that this alien needed a reason to be there. Adams finally settled on making the alien a roving researcher for a "wholly remarkable book" named The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. As the first radio episode's writing progressed, the Guide became the centre of his story, and he decided to focus the series on it, with the destruction of Earth being the only hold-over. Adams claimed that the title came from a incident while he was hitchhiking around Europe as a young man with a copy of the Hitch-hiker's Guide to Europe book: while lying drunk in a field near Innsbruck with a copy of the book and looking up at the stars, he thought it would be a good idea for someone to The Hitch Hikers Guide To The Galaxy a hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy as well.