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Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Full Movie

Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Full Movie

2005 film

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
A man and a robot stand on a platform below the Earth as the title hovers above them.

Theatrical release poster
Directed by Garth Jennings
Screenplay by
Based on The Hitchhiker'due south Guide to the Galaxy
by Douglas Adams
Produced by
Starring
Cinematography Igor Jadue-Lillo
Edited by Niven Howie
Music past Joby Talbot

Product
companies
Distributed by Buena Vista Pictures Distribution

Release dates
  • 28 April 2005 (2005-04-28) (United Kingdom)
  • 29 Apr 2005 (2005-04-29) (United States)

Running time

 109 minutes [1]
Countries
  • United Kingdom
  • U.s.a.
Language English
Budget $45–fifty million [two] [iii]
Box part $104.5 million [2]

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Milky way is a 2005 science fiction comedy motion picture directed past Garth Jennings, based upon previous works in the media franchise of the same name, created by Douglas Adams. Information technology stars Martin Freeman, Sam Rockwell, Mos Def, Zooey Deschanel, Bill Nighy, Anna Chancellor, John Malkovich, and the voices of Stephen Fry, Helen Mirren, Thomas Lennon, Richard Griffiths, Ian McNeice, Neb Bailey and Alan Rickman. Adams co-wrote the screenplay with Karey Kirkpatrick but died in 2001, before product began; the picture is dedicated to Adams. The film grossed over $100 1000000 worldwide.

Plot [ edit ]

One Thursday morning, Arthur Paring discovers that his house is to be immediately demolished to brand fashion for a bypass. He tries delaying the bulldozers by lying down in front of them. Ford Prefect, a friend of Arthur's, convinces him to go to a pub with him. Over several pints of beer, Ford explains that he is an alien from the vicinity of Betelgeuse, and a journalist working on the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Milky way , a universal guide book. Ford warns that the Earth is to be demolished later that mean solar day past a race called Vogons, to make way for a hyperspace bypass.

As the Vogon fleet arrives in orbit to destroy Earth, Ford rescues Arthur by stowing aboard one of the Vogon ships. The pair are shortly discovered and thrown out an airlock, just to be picked upwardly by the starship Centre of Gold. They find Ford's "semi-cousin" Zaphod Beeblebrox, the newly elected president of the Galaxy. He has stolen the send along with Tricia "Trillian" McMillan, an Earth adult female whom Arthur had met previously, and Marvin the Paranoid Android, a clinically depressed robot.

Zaphod seeks the Ultimate Question of Life, the Universe, and Everything to match with the disappointing answer given past the supercomputer Deep Thought: "42". He believes that the answer lies on the planet Magrathea, only attainable using the Heart of Gold 's improbability drive through trial and error.

On one attempt, they arrive at Viltvodle Half dozen, where Zaphod's opponent, Humma Kavula, resides. Kavula offers the coordinates for Magrathea in exchange for Zaphod recovering the Point-of-View gun, a gun created by Deep Thought that makes anyone it blasts temporarily see things from the shooter's perspective. Trillian is captured past the Vogons as they depart, and the three mount a rescue try on the Vogon homeworld. Before her rescue, Trillian learns that Zaphod signed the order for the destruction of Earth, thinking that the Vogon with the permission class just wanted his autograph.

The group escapes the Vogons, followed by Galactic Vice-President Questular Rontok and the Vogons. They arrive at Magrathea, but trigger its automated missile defense systems. Arthur re-activates the improbability drive to transform the missiles into a bowl of petunias and a whale, allowing them to land safely on the planet. Zaphod, Ford, and Trillian enter a portal to arrive at Deep Thought, though Arthur and Marvin are stranded outside the portal. They learn from Deep Thought that subsequently coming up with the Answer "42", its creators had Deep Idea design some other computer to come up up with the Question, that beingness Earth. They recover the Signal-of-View gun, though Trillian uses it on Zaphod to show him her resentment for his accidental destruction of the Earth. They are captured past unknown entities.

Meanwhile, on Magrathea, Arthur is met by Slartibartfast, one of the planet builders. Slartibartfast takes Arthur to a pocket dimension inside the planet where he shows that a new version of World is virtually completion. Slartibartfast takes Arthur to his recreated dwelling, where inside, the others are enjoying a feast provided by the pan-dimensional beings who commissioned Arthur'south original Earth, and who resemble a pair of mice. With Arthur, who was on World upward until the terminal minutes, the mice think they tin discover the Question past removing his brain. Arthur manages to escape and crush the mice under a teapot; they disappear without a trace.

All of a sudden, Questular and the Vogons arrive outside the home and open up burn down. The grouping takes shelter in a caravan, but Marvin, left solitary, uses the Point-of-View gun to make the unabridged Vogon force also depressed to continue fighting. The Vogons are taken abroad, while Zaphod reunites with Questular. Arthur decides to explore the galaxy with Ford and Trillian, assuasive Slartibartfast to finalise the new Earth without him. The Heart of Golden crew decides to visit the Eating house at the Finish of the Universe.

Cast [ edit ]

Richard Griffiths voices Prostetnic Vogon Jeltz, the leader of the Vogons. Thomas Lennon voices Eddie the shipboard estimator. [four] Simon Jones, who portrayed Arthur Dent in both the BBC radio and goggle box adaptations of Hitchhiker's, makes a cameo appearance as the "Ghostly Image" (the Magrathean defence force system's recorded announcement). [five] Comedy troupe, The League of Gentlemen provided additional voices for the Vogons while one of its members, Steve Pemberton appears as Mr. Prosser, the construction boss. British film director, Edgar Wright (of Shaun of the Dead and Hot Fuzz fame) cameos as a Deep Idea technician. Kelly Macdonald plays a TV reporter.

Pre-production and production [ edit ]

Preparations for the premiere of The Hitchhiker'south Guide to the Milky way on Leicester Square.

Bringing The Hitchhiker's Guide to a theatrical version started as early every bit the 1970s, as documented in The Greatest Sci-Fi Movies Never Made past David Hughes. Douglas Adams had been approached by i unnamed producer and separately by the American Broadcasting Visitor network during the 1970s to turn the book into a film, but Adams refused both offers, as he feared they wanted to turn the work into "Star Wars with jokes". [6] In 1982, Adams signed an option for the motion picture with producers Ivan Reitman, Joe Medjuck, and Michael C. Gross, and completed iii scripts for them. As part of the rewrites, Medjuck and Gross offered the idea of bringing in either Bill Murray or Dan Aykroyd to play Ford Prefect. However, Aykroyd separately proposed a different story to Reitman, which led to this project becoming the basis for Ghostbusters . This left Adams flustered nearly the pic'due south development in making certain in that location was the necessary delivery to the project. Withal, the event did serve the idea of making Prefect an American every bit to better draw in that audience. [6]

Movement on the pic was quiet until around 2001, when managing director Jay Roach, using the ascendancy he had gained from Austin Powers: International Homo of Mystery and Run into the Parents , secured a new deal with Adams and product through Disney. [six] Adams wrote a new script, and Roach sought talent similar Spike Jonze to straight, Hugh Laurie to play Arthur, and Jim Carrey as Zaphod, but and so Adams died on eleven May 2001. Neither Roach nor the picture'due south executive producer Robbie Stamp wanted to come across their piece of work become for naught afterwards Adams' expiry. Roach brought in Karey Kirkpatrick to complete the screenplay based on Adams' terminal draft, submitted just earlier his death. Kirkpatrick used what notes Adams had left, finding that Adams was willing to go off the volume's narrative to adapt to the motion-picture show. He considered his screenplay something in the spirit that Adams had fix out based on the whole of Adams' work. [6]

Some time after Adams' decease, Roach decided to drop out of the project, and, on recommendation from Spike Jonze – 1 of several directors asked to do the film – Roach turned to director Garth Jennings and producer Nick Goldsmith, collectively known equally Hammer & Tongs, to take upwardly the work. [6] [7]

In a Slashdot interview, Robbie Postage stamp, ane of the film's executive producers, stated the following nearly the cast of the motion picture: [eight]

  • The hardest graphic symbol to bandage was "the vocalisation of the Guide itself and in the cease came back to somebody who was one of the people Douglas himself had wanted, namely Stephen Fry."
  • "Douglas himself is on tape equally saying that as far as he was concerned the but grapheme who had to exist British, indeed English language, was Arthur Paring."

Stamp also commented on how large a role the studio and screenwriters other than Adams played in making the picture show:

  • "I recollect that a lot of fans would be surprised to know just how much of a free mitt we take been given in the making of this movie. I know how like shooting fish in a barrel it is to meet every decision to cut a scene as 'studio' pressure only it was always much more than to practise with pacing and rhythm in the picture itself."
  • "The script we shot was very much based on the last draft that Douglas wrote... All the substantive new ideas in the movie... are brand new Douglas ideas written particularly for the moving picture by him... Douglas was always upwardly for reinventing HHGG in each of its different incarnations and he knew that working harder on some character development and some of the primal relationships was an integral part of turning HHGG into a movie."

Shooting was completed in August 2004, and the movie was released on 28 April 2005 in Europe, Australia, and New Zealand, and on the following mean solar day in Canada and the United States. The pre-title sequence of the film was shot in Loro Parque, Puerto de la Cruz, Tenerife.

Marketing [ edit ]

The picture trailer featured vox over work past Stephen Fry as the Guide, describing the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy 'southward entry on motion picture trailers.

An audio collection called "Boosted Guide Entries", read by Stephen Fry, was released to iTunes to promote the flick. The entries were set to music past Joby Talbot and written by Tim Browse and Sean Sollé (with the exception of the How to exist Cool entry, which was also co-written past Yoz Grahame).

The "Hitchhiker's Guide to Technology" claims that if yous make yourself a loving cup of tea and effort to get an object working and the tea goes cold before y'all terminate, y'all are dealing with engineering. Other guides include the Hitchhiker's Guide to Blogging, the Hitchhiker's Guide to Deadlines, and the Hitchhiker'due south Guide to How to be Absurd which discusses how an private can truly be cool, instead of by post-obit crowds, but concludes by suggesting the listener nourish a showing of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. The Guide to Websites, which only appeared on the official Great britain movie website, described a website as "a wonderful new invention that allows people you neither know nor intendance nearly to inform you what they had for breakfast this morning, without all that irksome mucking virtually in the postal system". The Guide to Fanboys, written by Touchstone Pictures' copywriters as part of their promotion of the film, only ever appeared equally website text. Though released at the same fourth dimension equally the iTunes entries, it was never intended to be recorded and is otherwise unconnected with the Fry/Talbot/Scan works.

Reception [ edit ]

Critical reaction [ edit ]

Rotten Tomatoes, a review aggregator, reports that 60% of 200 surveyed critics gave the film a positive review; the boilerplate rating is half-dozen.09/10. The site'due south consensus reads: "A frantic and occasional funny adaptation of Douglas Adams' novel. However, it may take those unfamiliar with the source material scratching their heads." [nine] Metacritic gives information technology 63/100, indicating "by and large favourable" reviews. [10] Audiences polled past CinemaScore gave the film an average grade "B-" on an A+ to F scale. [xi] Empire magazine rated the movie four stars out of 5 and said it was a "very British, very funny sci-fi misadventure that's guaranteed to win converts". [12]

Roger Ebert gave the moving-picture show two stars out of four:

You will find the movie tiresomely twee, and observe that it obviously thinks it is being funny at times when you do not have the slightest clue why that should exist. Y'all will hear dialogue that preserves the content of written humor at the toll of sounding as if the characters are holding a Douglas Adams reading ... I do not go the joke. I do not much want to become the joke, but maybe you will ... To me, information technology got old fairly quickly. The movie was more of a revue than a narrative, more about moments than an organizing purpose. [13]

Manohla Dargis called it "hugely likable" with a story arc structured "more or less" equally "a long beginning and then an ending"; she calls Jim Henson's Animal Shop's Vogons "beautifully constructed" and noted that Sam Rockwell's performance is "sensational, ... riffing on Elvis and the electric current President George Bush". [vii] Peter Bradshaw gave the film three stars out of 5 and said, "The film is no disgrace, and honours the Guide's gentle, low-tech BBC origins. But information technology doesn't exercise justice to the open-ended inventiveness of the original. The inevitable Anglo-American accommodations of casting have muddled its identity and the performances of the new American stars tin be uneasy. It somehow seems heavier-footed and slower-moving than Adams's concept; the gravity is stronger... The bask and flavour of the Adams original, its playfully ruminative experience, has been downgraded in favour of a jolly but less interesting outerspace romp." [14]

Philip French, after describing the Vogons as "a species resembling Laughton'south version of Quasimodo" and writing it is "not, except in its financing, annihilation resembling a standard Hollywood product", called the flick "slightly old-fashioned (few things date as rapidly as science fiction and our view of the hereafter) and somewhat commonplace through its embracing familiar special effects. The jokes have to compete with the hardware and the actors executing them often exude a feeling of desperation... It'south funnier, and evidently cleverer, than Spaceballs , Mel Brooks's puerile spoof on Star Wars, but a expert chip less engaging than Galaxy Quest ." [15]

Commercial box office [ edit ]

The film was released on 28 Apr 2005 in the Great britain making GB£4,200,000 (equivalent to £six,411,296 in 2020) in its first week. It was released a day later in North America, making United states$21,103,203 (equivalent to $29,279,840 in 2021) in its opening weekend, opening in start place. In the United states of america, the motion picture remained in the box part top ten for its first four weeks of release. The movie'southward total box office gross was $104,478,416 worldwide. [ii] According to Freeman, the film would be unlikely to merit a sequel; he stated "I plant that out from the horse's mouth, [managing director] Garth Jennings. I had dinner with him and he said [the first one] just didn't practise well plenty." [16]

Awards [ edit ]

The movie was nominated for seven different awards and won i. Information technology won the Aureate Trailer Award under the category Well-nigh Original. [17] Information technology was nominated for: the Artios award from Casting Club of America, The states under the category Best Featured Motion picture Casting-Comedy in 2005; the Empire Awards from Empire Awards, UK nether the categories Best British Film and Best Comedy in 2006; the Golden Trailer from Gold Trailer Awards nether the category All-time Vocalism Over; and Teen Choice Laurels for Selection Pic: Activeness and Choice Rap Artist in a Movie: Mos Def. [18]

Soundtrack [ edit ]

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Soundtrack album past

Stephen Fry, Joby Talbot

Released 12 April 2005
Genre Soundtrack
Label Hollywood

The consummate motion picture soundtrack was released as an iTunes Music Store exclusive (in the United states of america and the United Kingdom) on 12 April 2005, 2 weeks before the scheduled CD release. The iTunes Music Shop also has two further exclusive sets of tracks related to the motion-picture show:

  • The Marvin Mixes are remixes of a new version of "Reasons to exist Miserable", here performed by Stephen Fry, as well as a new vocal and a new instrumental rails for "Marvin", as well performed past Fry. Stephen Moore had recorded the vocals of both tracks in 1981.
  • The Guide Entries are new spoken "Hitchhiker'south Guide" entries, all read by Fry, with accompanying music by Joby Talbot (with farther orchestrations by Christopher Austin), who wrote the picture score.

The soundtrack CD was released on 26 April 2005,[ commendation needed ] past Hollywood Records. The CD has the same 33 tracks equally the previous iTunes release. The enclosed booklet includes acknowledgements from Joby Talbot and notes on the cosmos of the song "So Long and Thanks for All the Fish", written by Garth Jennings.[ citation needed ]

The track "Huma's Hymn" on the soundtrack is notable for the fact that it was sung in St. Michael's Church in Highgate, London by members of local church choirs along with a congregation consisting of members of the public. The recording was open up to anyone wishing to attend, and was publicised on the net, including in a mail to the Usenet grouping alt.fan.douglas-adams. [19]

The first version of the song "So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish" is a Broadway-way, lively version sung by the dolphins before they leave Earth. The second plays over the stop credits and is in the style of smooth jazz. The song was written past English composer Joby Talbot, conductor Christopher Austin, and managing director Garth Jennings and performed by the Tenebrae Choir. Neil Hannon, founder and frontman of the Irish pop grouping The Divine Comedy, of which Talbot is a sometime member, lent his vocals to the version of the song played during the ending credits. The song, in its "bouncy", opening version, was translated into and performed in Spanish for the Latin-American Region 4 DVD release.

A reworked version of the theme from the 1981 tv adaptation was also included in the score.

Home media [ edit ]

The movie was released on DVD (Region 2, PAL) in the United Kingdom on 5 September 2005. Both a standard double disc edition and a Uk-exclusive "Gift Set" edition were released on this engagement. The standard double disc edition features:

  • Making-of
  • Additional guide entries (encounter marketing, above)
  • Deleted scenes
  • Actually deleted scenes (scenes that were never actually meant to be in the picture show, only for fun)
  • Sing-a-long
  • Sound commentaries
  • Set up Summit Games: Marvin's Hangman
  • Don't Crash (68-minute Britain sectional "making of" documentary, directed by Grant Gee)

The "Gift Set" edition includes a copy of the novel with a "moving picture necktie-in" cover, and collectible prints from the movie, packaged in a replica of the film'due south version of the Hitchhiker'southward Guide prop.

Unmarried disc widescreen and full-screen editions (Region 1, NTSC) were released in the Us and Canada on 13 September 2005. They take a different encompass, but contain the same special features (except the Don't Crash documentary) as the UK version.

Single disc releases in the UMD format for the PlayStation Portable were as well released on the respective dates in these three countries.

The movie was fabricated available as a paid download in the iTunes Store starting in September 2006, for the American market place only. A region-free Blu-ray Disc version was released in January 2007. [20]

References [ edit ]

  1. ^ "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (PG)". British Lath of Moving-picture show Nomenclature . Retrieved 24 May 2016.
  2. ^ a b c "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy". Box Part Mojo . Retrieved 12 Feb 2015.
  3. ^ "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy". The Numbers . Retrieved 12 February 2015.
  4. ^ "The Lost Roles Interview with Tom Lennon". vulture.com. x Jan 2013. Retrieved 24 September 2018.
  5. ^ "Final hitchhike for Milky way veteran". news.bbc.co.uk. 19 September 2019.
  6. ^ a b c d e Reynolds, Andrew (nine March 2017). "Star Wars with Jokes: The Hitchhiker'southward Guide to the Galaxy Movie". The Doctor Who Companion . Retrieved 11 Feb 2019.
  7. ^ a b Dargis, Manohla (29 April 2005). "The Way the World Ends, With a Shrug and a Smile". The New York Times . Retrieved 3 June 2011.
  8. ^ "HHG2G Exec. Producer Robbie Postage stamp Answers". Slashdot. 26 April 2005. Retrieved 4 June 2011.
  9. ^ "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (2005)". Rotten Tomatoes . Retrieved xx June 2020.
  10. ^ "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy". Metacritic . Retrieved 4 June 2011.
  11. ^ "Cinemascore". Archived from the original on twenty December 2018.
  12. ^ "Review of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Milky way". Empire . Bauer Consumer Media. Retrieved 4 June 2011.
  13. ^ Ebert, Roger (28 April 2005). "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Milky way". Chicago Sun-Times . Retrieved 27 May 2020.
  14. ^ Bradshaw, Peter (22 April 2005). "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy". The Guardian . Retrieved 3 June 2011.
  15. ^ French, Philip (1 May 2005). "Future imperfect: The Hitchhiker flick is clever simply adds fiddling to the radio original". The Observer. Retrieved 3 June 2011.
  16. ^ Adler, Shawn. "Martin Freeman: No Sequel For 'Hitchhiker's Guide To The Milky way'". Yeah. MTV Movie Weblog. Retrieved 2 Feb 2014.
  17. ^ "Golden Trailer Awards for 2005 at IMDb". imdb.com . Retrieved 24 September 2018.
  18. ^ Full list of all laurels nominations for The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Milky way at IMDb.
  19. ^ Bulletin announcing the recording of "Humma's Hymn" on the news:alt.fan.douglas-adams newsgroup
  20. ^ "Expired". yahoo.com. 29 July 2012. Archived from the original on 29 July 2012. Retrieved 24 September 2018.

Further reading [ edit ]

  • The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy UK Region 2 DVD Release, 2005. Includes commentaries by Garth Jennings, Nick Goldsmith, Martin Freeman and Nib Nighy, and Robbie Stamp with Sean Sollé. Also includes the documentary Don't Crash: The Making of the Picture of the Novel of the Radio Series of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.
  • Robbie Postage, ed. (2005). The Making of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: The Filming of the Douglas Adams Classic. Boxtree. ISBN 0-7522-2585-5 .

External links [ edit ]

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