Wasn't this movie supposed to be a comedy? Because I wasn't laughing, and I think that's a bad thing. There were a few parts where there was intended cleverness, but they didn't make me laugh. Maybe you had to read the book to understand (I didn't, and now I'm not sure if I ever want to). So, you want to know the plot? Well, the movie starts out with Arthur Dent (Martin Freeman), an average Englishman who is about to have his house demolished to make way for new highway. As Arthur protests and tries to delay the demolition, his friend, Ford Prefect (Mos Def), drags him away from the house, telling him that there are bigger problems. Ford couldn't be more right. The President of the galaxy (or whatever you call him), the goofball Zaphod Beeblebrox (Sam Rockwell), had signed a paper allowing the destruction of Earth for a new space highway. Talk about irony (the very people who allowed Arthur's house to be demolished get their planet destroyed, I think that's a good way to put it)! Luckily, Arthur has Ford, who, as you may have guessed by now, is not really from Earth after all, but someone called a 'hitchhiker', a person who wanders around space looking for adventure. Ford helps Arthur survive and meet up with Zaphod, who has kidnapped himself just for kicks. On Zaphod's ship, Arthur meets his love, Trillian (Zooey Deschanel), so there's a little love story involved here... Basically, the rest of the movie is about how the group of misfits (Arthur and Trillian as the nearly extinct Earth creatures, Zaphod the psycho president, and Ford the hitchhiker) travels around in search of adventure. I thought Alan Rickman was sort of funny in this movie, being the voice for the highly intelligent, manically depressed, robot named Marvin. Zooey Deschanel was out of place in this movie, she was much better in Elf... but that's getting off topic. The bottom line is: you should probably not see this movie unless you have read the book or heard the radio series. If you haven't and you're like me, stay away; you won't regret it.
