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I wrote earlier about some misgivings about the upcoming Hitchhiker's Movie.

Okay, I blew one issue out of proportion.

But today, I came across a review of a pre-screening of the film by MJ Simpson, author of the biography, "Hitchhiker".

There's a short review, and a long version, with spoilers. He starts the short review with:

The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy movie is bad. Really bad. You just won't believe how vastly, staggeringly, jaw-droppingly bad it is. I mean, you might think that The Phantom Menace was a hopelessly misguided attempt to reinvent a much-loved franchise by people who, though well-intentioned, completely failed to understand what made the original popular - but that's just peanuts to the Hitchhiker's movie. Listen.

(a nicely-written takeof on "the universe is big...")

The long version concludes:

Hitchhiker's is not so bad that it's good. It's just miserably, depressingly bad. It misses the point by a light year. Is it a good movie? No. Is it a good version of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy? Definitely not. It is ill-conceived, badly written, poorly directed and worst of all staggeringly unfunny. It is a travesty of a film. I mourn for it, I really do.

Sigh.

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