The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (2005)
Directed by Garth Jennings
Mere seconds before the Earth is to be demolished by an alien construction crew, Arthur Dent is swept off the planet by his friend Ford Prefect, a researcher penning a new edition of "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy."
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…clad only in a dressing gown, like The Dude in The Big Lebowski or Arthur Dent in The Hitch-hikers Guide to the Galaxy…
The film has quite a bit in common with “The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy,” with its penchant for absurdity and use of science fiction to cut to the center of how stupidly random the universe can be.
Once at home with Ego you can't help but notice the many notable references to The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, with Ego resembling an even more unhinged Zaphod Beeblebrox.
Well, unless they are sly infiltrators of the flesh, they will probably go for the kind of boastful, get-a-load-of-us craft that was immortalized by Douglas Adams in “The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy.”
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He’s the hapless milquetoast Arthur Dent of a story strongly resembling The Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Galaxy in form and tone.
Time Bandits alludes to influences as diverse as Through the Looking Glass and The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, but the style is pure Gilliam, with an emphasis on "handmade" practical effects and judicious use of wide angles when a subject needs to be especially grotesque (kudos, incidentally, to George Harrison and Denis O'Brien's Handmade Films for ultimately backing Gilliam's vision).
Screenwriter/director Garth Jennings (“The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy”) is behind the story about Buster Moon, a koala (voiced by Matthew McConaughey) whose parents worked hard for him to own a performing-arts theater.
But director Garth Jennings (better known for live-action films like The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy) keeps an eye out for the film’s senses of humor and absurdity (Reese Witherspoon’s domestic pig must tend to 25 kids while pursuing her singing dream).
The episodic structure of the screenplay by director Garth Jennings (The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy) doesn’t leave much room for character development.
So how does Jennings, making his animation debut after the live-action movies "Son of Rambow" and "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy," weave together six singers' stories with Buster's save-the-theater plot line, while making room for dozens of song cues?
Written and directed by Garth Jennings ( The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy ), the musical animated film (**½ out of four; rated PG; in theaters Wednesday) 12/21 trades Ryan Seacrest for a charismatic koala in its showcase of heart-tugging stories, colorful characters and enough pop songs to fill a playlist but not much else.
Pero los directores Christophe Lourdelet y Garth Jennings (The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, 2005) logran darle un atractivo giro al esquema desgastado de la televisión para presentar una amplia variedad de animales con motivaciones que van mucho más allá de alcanzar la fama.
There's a Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy quality about Rockwell's performance…
Sci-fi comedy is a tricky balance often better handled in animation: Rick and Morty and Futurama are beloved, but The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy movie and Morons From Outer Space rarely get their due.
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"Book Watney" was also unfailingly chipper, like the door on the Heart of Gold in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, and I think Scott does right by leveraging Watney's natural sense of humor with the overwhelming helplessness of his situation.
Point: True, that felt like it was dropped in from “The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy” or something.