The film's opening credits are terrific, and the first 10 or 15 minutes -- in which Ford and Arthur speedily load up on beer at the local pub -- are absorbing and funny. It's such a promising start that it's doubly deflating to realize that once they land on Zaphod's spaceship, the humor vaporizes.
The droll has been made dull, a most inexplicable and unfortunate turn of events for so adored a genius, goofball work as this.
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Christian Science MonitorDavid Sterritt
Christian Science MonitorDavid Sterritt
Amiably bland actors can be fun to watch, as Tom Hanks has proved. Freeman is no Hanks, though, and The Hitchhiker's Guide won't boost anyone's career into hyperspace. Or give your mind a workout.