Movies: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

I can't say I am impressed with the movie.
All that wonderful British humor seemed lost when put on celluloid. Some of the best lines were shortened or edited out of the movie. For example, the dialog between Arthur and Mr. Prosser about the notice to build a bypass right where Arthur's house was, was cut to "I had to go down to the celler." I am like, what the...??! And also Ford Prefect's trying effort to interpret Arthur's sarcasm about being busy lying in front of a couple of bulldozers. Not to mention the #1 most important space campanion, the towel and its psychological effects on the hitchhikers were treated very lightly and hastely. As a result, the humor was gone and because of the realistic setting (not so much like outer space but rather a deserted island on earth--which is probably where the movie was shot anyway...), the movie feels like a B-rated science fiction with a lot of ground to cover in a short period of time... Thin and too spread out. Nothing really sticks to the mind after the movie is over. Man, I shall stick to the books from this point on.

The opening scenes where all the dolphins vanished from the earth was way too much like a Sea World promotion video, lacking the ethereal feel the book was going for. The effects used to illustrate the various features of the book "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy"
were done somewhat crudely, almost like Flash MX (If I may dare say so). I mean it was still very funny in terms of the point the animation was trying to make, but when Flash was shown on a big screen, oh come on... People were looking for something more.