...Douglas Adams spinning in his grave.
HHGttG was everything its detractors have suggested, unfortunately. Entirely meaningless digressions, all the genuinely funny situations replaced by watered-down simpering, and a story that was considerably less finessed and meaningful than what Adams was able to string together a frantic week at a time writing scripts to a story that even he didn't know how would end.
They cut the best parts out in order to fit in an completely useless subplot involving John Malkovich, which was just stupid. The radio plays amounted to about two hours of material just as they were; had they been left unsodomized there would have been no need to "edit" the parts that made the plot, as crafted by Adams, fly.
Save your money and the two hours of your life and do something productive. Such as combing the shag carpet.
-- Warren Ockrassa, Publisher/Editor, nightwares Books http://books.nightwares.com/ Current work in progress "The Seven-Year Mirror" http://www.nightwares.com/books/ockrassa/Flat_Out.pdf
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