Go to Radio 4 http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/hitchhikers/
and hear an audio trailer of The Quandary Phase of Hitchhiker which begins on Tuesday 3 May.
You'll be able to hear it over the Internet

My understanding is that the film script was written by Adams himself quite some time before he died so hopefully not too Hollywood-ised, no. (Haven't seen it myself yet so can't comment).

Can I also recommend Last Chance To See, a collaborative effort between Douglas Adams and zoologist/ conservationist Mark Carwardine. It is about the rather serious and slightly depressing topic of endangered species, their conservation, the likelihood of their survival and such forth BUT it is all written in Adam's inimitably humourous style and is a great read.

Then again I'm very interested in conservation issues already so....

The review in this morning's local paper was very good 3 stars (out of 4 from a VERY picky reviewer).

And in a seperate "Family Viewing" section Jane Horwitz calls it "Deliciously funny, imaginative, sometimes poignant, refreshingly hand-made looking . . . ."

Can't wait to see it.

Maybe seuesnothome just wasn't in the right frame of mind (or maybe isn't familair with Douglas Adams)

Hi Scarlett, do you think Pup will enjoy these CD books? Just wondering, LOL. We don't want him to be irritated or bored. Take care.

I find Pup gets most irritated and bored when those guys are yelling on CNBC LOL..
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The review in our local paper was pretty mediocre. I could never get into the books, but my husband liked them and will see the movier no matter if the reviews are good or bad.

I read the books a really long time ago. I never remember a tv show.

I wanted to see the movie, but now I am not so sure.

I will ask one of the kids at work what they think. They are usually pretty reliable.

I am a science fiction geek though. I will probably like it.

Janis....... True, I am not familiar with Douglas Adams. I went because we had free tickets to the preview and I thought I'd give it a try. It's definitely not my kind of movie.

I picked up tickets today for a preview for the movie in 2 weeks and this time I'm sure I'll enjoy it. It's Monster In Law! That should be fun.

There were about 20 of us from work there last night and one guy is a sci fi geek (his description) and he liked it and his teen kids did too until close to the end when they were getting antsy. Most of the women didn't care for it.

I have seen good rating on it. ???

I must have a geeks taste in movies then
I would rather see a bad science fiction movie than something with Jennifer Lopez & Jane Fonda~

suesnothome, that sounded rude but I was not referring to you personally! I was just thinking of how I cannot stand Jen Lopez and her films and all these Jane Fonda interviews are so tiresome, I did was not referring to your taste in movies..sorry for sounding rude

This is not about travel as we know it on earth as vacation, visitation and so on.

http://www.fodors.com/forums/threads...mp;tid=3457307
machin, you might want to post that here also.

I loved the radio series. They are as much a part of my growing up as Monty Python.

I can quite clearly remember stumbling on the Hitchiker's Guide to the Galaxy on the radio and thinking I was the only one who thought it stunningly funny, then findling all my pals did too.

The man was a comic genius, and carried great messages in his humour, too.

I did prefer the Hitchhiker series to Dirk Gently, but the bit in the first paragraph of Detective Agenecy about getting up enough momentum to break out of the Cambridge ring road had me wetting myself laughing.

Paralllels in style to Lake Wobegon?

I'm not a big Hitchhiker fan, but my husband is, so he'll probably be seeing this movie alone. We are both, however, looking forward to seeing Kingdom of Heaven as soon as it opens.

It's true, with movies like Hitchhiker, you have to realize what *kind* of sci-fi you're dealing with. My dad was a sci-fi fan and loved going to sci-fi movies. But then one day he went to see Sleeper (the Woody Allen movie set in the future). Not exactly what he was hoping for ;-)

Scarlett........ no offense taken. We all have our preferences.... mine is comedy or romance.

It helps to read "The Rhyme of the Ancient Mariner" before reading "Dirk Gently's holistic detective agency".

I think this we will just have to buy the set of CDs to listen to on our drive to Oregon.
suesnothome, good
I usually like any kind of movie- but certain actors (if you can call them that) irritate me
My husband talks about Dudley Moore and Peter Cooke being a great comedy team a long time ago, apparently he saw them in London back when he was a lad
I think maybe our entire trip will be spent listening to old BBC shows..I will arrive in ORegon with a British accent LOL

JUST got back from seeing it and I thought it was very good indeed... not a sell out and very much retaining aspects of both the radio and tv series.

Thanks Kavey!

Welcome! Casing is great... especially Arthur Dent and Marvin but actually all of it...