I Forgot To Bring A Towel

But luckily one guy in the audience remembered as we gathered to watch Douglas Adams' sci-fi opus to terry cloth, The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy. I thought the movie was good clean absurdist fun. Not as much good, clean, absurdist fun as the book, but that goes without saying usually in the world of adaptations. Like the book, I'm sure it's very love it or hate it. I love the book and I liked the movie.
Hating it, was one of the blokes behind me who had come with a group of friends. What I was able to gather from my multi-tasking of movie watching and eavesdropping was that he was a member of a group of friends (all in their fifties or so) who had formed a movie club and got together to see different movies. He was very outspoken almost from the beginning of the film (could it have been the musical number performed by dolphins? which in my opinion was the best of the added material not in the book). I heard him remark that this was the last time he would let them drag him to one of these things and he uttered a "somebody strangle me" as he got up and crossed in front of all of his peers (I'd say they numbered in the teens) and left the auditorium. What he did after this is only speculation but he did have his large tub of popcorn in hand so I believe he theater-hopped as the kids do. Maybe he went to see The Interpreter. Maybe he played some video games. We'll never know outside of some fan fiction I may write about him. Whatever he did I hope he found what he was looking for. He returned near the end of Hitchhiker's Guide, presumably The Interpreter ended earlier than, and rejoined his group. He only sighed one more "kill me" before the movie ended.
So judging from his reaction I am fairly certain this movie isn't for everybody. I enjoyed it a lot. I think it did as good a job as it could. I regard the book as one of the most clever works of comedic genius but so much of what makes it funny I don't know how you would translate it to the screen. Still, all in all, it's a great family friendly romp. And if you get the chance, try to find an authentic Florida Sea Grill themed restaurant to dine at afterwards. No reason. Also, I recommend seeing it with fun people like I did and maybe not seeing it with someone who has a history of verbal death wishes when he doesn't like something.