*HITCHHIKER'S GUIDE* is wild! MOVIE REACTION FIRST TIME WATCHING! ♡

[@jenmurrayxo]

Will they ever make a sequel to this? GALAXY QUEST: kzbin.info/www/bejne/apfdhHSHZ6qkkK8 BEETLEJUICE: kzbin.info/www/bejne/eGXRdWuZic91o7c SHAU OF THE DEAD: kzbin.info/www/bejne/m3elm4WjYrCFla8

[@williamsmith5340]

Very funny movie

[@SilentBob731]

They're currently making a sequel to Beetlejuiuce with Jenna Ortega as Winona Ryder's daughter. I'm cautiously hopeful. 👍

[@e.d.2096]

Jen, they were in the process of making a sequel to Galaxy Quest, but sadly Alan Rickman passed away. So the project never came to be. To honor this great actor, may I suggest, Quigley Down Under! One of his most memorable roles.😊

[@SilentBob731]

@@e.d.2096 He was also great in The January Man (and of course, the brilliant classic Dogma).

[@kinokind293]

Sadly, although talks were in progress for a Galaxy Quest sequel, the death of Allan Rickman cancelled it, since no one involved wanted to do one without him. Shaun of the Dead was a self-contained piece of The Cornetto Trilogy, so there is no plan or need for a sequel. A Beetlejuice sequel is in production and said to be looking at a September, 2024 release.

[@CT2507]

"Presidents don't have power, their job is to draw attention away from it" Great line and very true.

[@aaronbarlow4376]

So insightful and true. Presidents are just deep state puppets, and in the spirit of this movie, the deep state puppetmasters are in turn controlled by reptilitan aliens.

[@Gift_Of_Victory]

Like they say, the responsibility of all rulers, regardless of what they get out of the deal, is to take the blame.

[@DrJekyll38]

Really? Because here in the States, no Democrat leader ever seems to take the blame. Whatever happened to "The Buck Stops Here"!?

[@lashier13]

For the record, "Arthur Dent" is the single greatest Halloween costume that exists, especially for jobs that let you dress up on Halloween. Pajamas, bathrobe, towel.

[@UnhandyCandy280]

If you want to go all out, stick a small toy fish in your ear.

[@18Hongo]

And a book with a cardboard cover that says "Don't Panic" on it.

[@UncleUncleRj]

Oh man, I wish I had thought of this a month ago. I'm gonna have to remember this for next year...

[@Turalcar]

@@18Hongo To distinguish it from The Dude

[@NecramoniumVideo]

except that 99% of people don't get it.

[@robertbunting3117]

I LOVE Alan Rickman as the depressed robot👍

[@jamesgreenwood8952]

Easily the best part of the movie.

[@steveglufc]

Marvin the Paranoid Android (it’s hard to find but there was a record made of that name… very funny)

[@gregorygant4242]

That robot sounded like me when I'm depressed!!!

[@dantirk4560]

Didn’t pick that up till you said it

[@christophersims7060]

RIP. He did so many great characters!

[@StargliderGaming]

I always tear up a little bit when Douglas appears at the very end of the film. An extremely talented and funny man who sadly died far too soon.

[@JakkFrost1]

It's a humorous coincidence that Martin Freeman played both Arthur Dent and Bilbo Baggins, two extremely similar characters in similar basic stories. A quiet little man who enjoys his quiet little life in his cozy little home, taken on an unwanted adventure, involving a ring, by a mysterious friend who isn't what he seems.

[@baddayoverdosed]

Between Arthur Dent, Bilbo and Watson, Martin Freeman is the embodiment of English literature

[@jambulance]

When he was first announced as Bilbo I knew he’d be perfect considering his performance in this, was kinda disappointed with the execution of the movies but he was great as Bilbo 100%

[@metoo7557]

It's not a coincidence. Martin Freeman makes his money being the titular 'every man'. and that's a character that appears in MANY movies.

[@michelbidart7286]

In Black Panther, he was the Tolkien white guy.

[@killinglonliness88]

@@michelbidart7286 Haha, I see what you did there. ;)

[@mattstanford9673]

"...Ford...I think I'm a sofa." That line kills me *every* time.

[@DrJekyll38]

I know how you feel. "AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!"

[@greenpeasuit]

Fun fact: the origin of the books is from a failed idea for a radio series Addams had called "The Ends of the Earth" in which each episode would be a completely different story that would involve Earth's destruction. The pilot episode was that the earth was destroyed to make way for a hyperspace bypass. After that failed to get picked up, as Douglas was drunk, homeless, and hitchhiking around Europe with a guide that gave tips on how to see Europe on a budget, he was laying in a field looking at the stars. He thought, "what if there was a "Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" like his guide to Europe. The rest is history.

[@po5283]

If you are at all familiar with the legendary British group Radiohead, their 90's hit Paranoid Android, is in reference to Marvin! Also, it has to be said, casting Alan Rickman as Marvin, was sheer brilliance and a bit of perfection.

[@Dirkus17]

What's this?

[@AngelusNZ]

That's why they have the song Paranoid Android.

[@theSonichammer]

@@AngelusNZ Also , Radiohead's album "OK, Computer" is a reference to the line Zaphod says in the film/book/tv show/computer game/radio series

[@johnreed3576]

I was going to “like” this comment, but the counter was at 42!

[@josephmayo3253]

So much fun, but I love the tv show even more. Its only 6 episodes, so you could do it for your channel. As always, a wonderful reaction Jen. I love how you fully give yourself over to the story. Best reactor on KZbin. The books are amazing. All 5 books in the trilogy are a treat.

[@LordVolkov]

The radio play is also very good.

[@bbbb98765]

@@LordVolkov It's wonderful. I had it on double vinyl as a kid. I wore it out

[@paulflux5892]

The BBC radio series was the original form of this story, and to my mind still the best. The TV adaptation was also good.

[@TimothySmiths]

I like every incarnation of it,The Radio series, The books , The TV show and this movie, all different from each other but the same in a lot of ways as well. i love the radio show and the books the most though.

[@KthulhuXxx]

@@paulflux5892 I'm roughly tied on the radio play and the books for being the best.

[@Corndog642]

Obviously, the books are way better. The story is a little different but this was entertaining. Martin Freeman made for a great Arthur Dent.

[@RunnerInc]

The radio show came first I believe

[@tekcomputers]

@@RunnerInc Yep, the BBC radio show was first, it was the radio show that formed the basis of the first two books when Adams later wrote them. Subsequently two sequel books were written bringing it to what we in humour call a "four book trilogy", and most of the first and part of the second book was then adapted into a screenplay for a BBC TV miniseries. (fun easteregg, the Marvin robot used in the BBC TV series is actually in queue in this movie, it is the silver one with triangular eyes on the left side of the screen at 22:16 in this video). Parts of the subsequent books have as well been adapted into BBC Radio show format. In the mid 90's Adams wrote a fifth book (giving us a "five book trilogy", LOL)... and then posthumously Eoin Colfer wrote a sixth book with permission from the Adams estate bringing the total to six books (but to be honest the quality of the sixth book does not reach Adams own writing level.... Mr Colfer is more of a young reader author, and it really shows in his book in the series).

[@TheRealMirCat]

​@@tekcomputersAnd the beautiful thing is, the radioplays, the books, TV miniseries, and movie are ALL canon because of "the whole general sort of mish-mash."

[@dodobean7620]

fun fact - in the books, Marvin ( the ever depressed robot ) actually knew "the question" but nobody bothered to ask him.

[@aaronbarlow4376]

Was the question "What's the point?"?

[@dodobean7620]

@@aaronbarlow4376 it never gets said. it all starts with some pan dimensional beings who built a super computer (called Deep Thought) to find the ANSWER... " to life, existence, and everything " . . . the super computer tells them it will take 7.5 million years to calculate the answer, and when they return ( yes - they DO return 7.5 million years later ) its claims the answer is "42", which baffles the pan dimensional beings. it then goes on to explain to them that the answer is useless without the question... and it doesnt KNOW the question, but the computer can build a BETTER computer that CAN come up with the question. the "better" computer it builds.... is Earth. but some random aliens who specialize in inter stellar highway construction blew up the earth to make way for a highway, and now the question was lost.

[@lurkerrekrul]

This was first adapted into a 6-part miniseries in 1981. In fact, I still can't help imagining those actors when I see this movie. It has much more animation and narration representing entries from the guide. Fun fact: The robot waiting in line when they go to save Trillian (visible at 22:17 on the left edge of the image) is the Marvin from that miniseires. Also, the music when the second title appears at 5:05 is the title music from the miniseries. It might have also been used in the original radio plays. Finally, if someone is ejected into space, holding their breath is the worst thing they can do. The lack of pressure would cause their lungs to burst. What they should do is exhale as much air as possible. Experts estimate that in such a situation, that person would have between 10-30 seconds before they would pass out.

[@ClassicGOD]

Just to add - track name for the title music is "Journey of the Sorcerer" by Eagles, it's an amazing track.

[@theholk]

@@ClassicGOD "I hate the f*cking eagles, man" (except that song)

[@jonathanross149]

It wa a radio drama even before it was a book.

[@marcwilliams9824]

Your lungs would no more "burst" holding your breath in space than if you took a breath from a scuba tank at a depth of 10m in water and then swum to the surface holding your breath. And don't talk about the bends. We're talking about the body's ability to endure a difference of one atmosphere of pressure, and nothing to do with nitrogen and its various potential effects on the human body.

[@ourworldofours]

Cool bits of quick information regarding the origins and history of the story: The story this film is based on was originally a 1978 BBC Radio series written by Douglas Adams, which then got a sequel Radio series. Those two series were adapted into books. The first radio series was then adapted into a BBC TV series (with some of the Radio cast. Fun fact: the Magrathean hologram was the actor who played Arthur in both). The third book was the first one not based on a radio series - it was based on an unproduced Doctor Who movie treatment (which itself was adapted into a Doctor Who novel a few years ago) that Douglas Adams had tried to pitch around the time he was the script editor on the Doctor Who series in the mid-to-late 70s, the basic idea from which was then considered for the second Hitchhikers TV season (which would not have been an adaptation of the second radio seres/book, and would've ignored it altogether) and eventually released as the third book (still kinda ignoring the second story). In 2004, (after three more books were written between '82-92 and Douglas passed in 2001 while the movie was being developed), they adapted books 3-5 for radio in the style of the series' with the surviving cast, making changes to have the second story still be relevant after having been kinda ignored. With the movie, Douglas was specifically going for the Hollywood Blockbuster version of the story, with changes and additions to increase the scale and scope of the story, and there were plans to at least adapt the second story for a movie which never happened. Since the movie was released, Eoin Colfer wrote an official sixth novel, which was also later adapted for radio in the style of the originals. There's also supposed to be a new TV show adaptation for Hulu, but there's been silence on what's happening with that. Edit: I would personally recommend listening to the BBC Radio series as your next dive into the Hitchhikers world. They should be up on streaming platforms as Primary Phase, Secondary Phase, Tertiary Phase, Quandary Phase, Quintessential Phase and Hexagonal Phase (so as to not confuse them for the standard audiobooks). It's the best, most complete way to experience the entire story.

[@jean-paulaudette9246]

... and then listen to the novelty song, "Marvin, I Love You" produced by BBC as a 45 record. It can be found on KZbin

[@Serai3]

Also, every version of this story, including the video game, is different. He changed it each time he was asked to adapt it to a different medium.

[@maul42]

All of this is true and great info. Personally I think you can skip the Eoin Colfer book entirely as it doesn't match the quality of DNA's writing and the Quintessential Phase's altered ending that Adams patched on is the perfect farewell for the characters anyway. God love this story. Time to revisit the books again. :_)

[@haywood12]

Í thank the BBC show was a lot better than the film

[@njwagoner66]

Excellent summary of the VERY complicated history of this cosmically entertaining story (stories?)!!

[@brom00]

Jen, the music during the second title sequence is "Journey of the Sorcerer" from the Eagles. It's been used since the original radio series.

[@UnhandyCandy280]

That's the theme music in my mind and always has been. Loved hearing that come up again as the books theme music.

[@mrtveye6682]

I'm probably not the first to mention that the movie don't really do the books justice. But than again, I guess it's impossible to do so. But the movie is probably as good as it can get when you have to press the "essence" of several books into two hours.

[@MrChiddler]

The books don’t do the radio series justice. That’s the original version and by far the best

[@mrtveye6682]

@@MrChiddler I unfortunately hadn't the chance to listen to the radio series. I'm from Germany, and back when I read the books as a teen, there was no internet yet, so no practical way to get my hands on a copy. But maybe I should fill my gaps and check it out now. Should be available somewhere I guess.

[@JaneXemylixa]

@@mrtveye6682 No part of the franchise does any other part justice and it's by design - would be boring to tell the same story over and over

[@nirmalsuki]

@@JaneXemylixa Douglas had said himself that he doesn't want to say the same story more than once.

[@discorduk]

Yeah, i feel the comic timing is totally ruined in this version, so many fantastic lines that were just cut or downplayed.

[@wittyreviewer]

I can highly recommend both the books and TV series of Hitchhikers Guide.

[@donaldb1]

And the radio series which started it all.

[@petevan8942]

The movie was awful,hated it .... radio and TV show was farrrrr better

[@rickb3645]

Did anyone else recognise the original Paranoid Android Marvin from The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy TV Series... He was on the far left queuing @22:16... 😂👍🤖

[@kgmaster9421]

I remember spotting him immediately when I first watch this in 2013

[@williamrosmer8381]

Per Douglas Adams wishes, every adaptation of the story is different

[@AlanCanon2222]

I listened to the original form of the Hitchhiker's Guide (the first 12 radio episodes) on NPR as a kid, in the early 1980s at the very beginning of the Hitchhiker's phenomenon and grew up to play The Book and Marvin in live stage adaptations of the radio scripts. Marvin is so fun to play, and an audience favorite. One critic, another actor I respect, did call me out in a review for barely looking at my script, because I have it all memorized (we perform it as a staged reading with scripts in hand, as if we were the original radio actors performing it live, which they didn't).

[@CaesiusX]

One of my favorite quotes from *The Restaurant at the End of the Universe:* _"You guys are so unhip it's a wonder your bums don't fall off."_ ~Zaphod Beeblebrox

[@chrisleebowers]

There's books, a TV series, AND a radio show. The RADIO SHOW is the original version. *They're all different!* And they're all great in different ways.

[@robertbunting3117]

Also All 5 books in the trilogy...yes you read that right, 5 books/ trilogy... are really good

[@largo778]

interesting musical fact: the instrumental music played after the Earth was demolished was "Journey of the Sorcerer" by The Eagles. It was also the theme to the miniseries

[@DouglasJohnson.]

I remember seeing the original series very late at night on PBS as a young boy. I had never seen anything like it. I later read the original trilogy and couldn't stop laughing. This movie differs from them, but overall embodies their spirit. So disappointed they never made any sequels to this.

[@MrChiddler]

The ‘original series’ is the radio show. The best version by a country mile.

[@simonfrederiksen104]

@@MrChiddler absolutely kzbin.info/www/bejne/mZuwoqKCd66Um80

[@Yora21]

There is nothing like it.

[@jonathanross149]

@@MrChiddler It came before the book

[@ThatSchmoGuy]

The song that played during the reveal of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy is called "Journey of the Sorceror", originally written and performed by the rock band the Eagles

[@Serai3]

The Hitchhiker's Guide theme music is "Flight of the Sorcerer", by The Eagles. Douglas Adams was a big fan.

[@paulobrien9572]

Jen this movie is right up your alley and I highly recommend reading the series of books by Douglas Adams, Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy, The Restaurant at the End of the Universe, Life the Universe and Everything and lastly So Long and Thanks for all the Fish. They are all quick reads and hilarious

[@Aryaba]

I'd also recommend "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" 1981 BBC series. Superior in many ways.

[@Gav-mj6lx]

@@Aryaba Agreed, the movie casting was brilliant, but the definitive Ford and Arthur will always be David Dixon and Simon Jones (he made a small cameo as the Magrathean recording).

[@KthulhuXxx]

Not a fan of Mostly Harmless, I take it? ...Or that final sequel written by someone else.

[@briana1773]

So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish was touted on the cover as "The fourth book in the hitchhiker's trilogy". You should read at least these four. Douglas Adams will have you laughing out loud.

[@mr.randomguys7629]

You're forgetting "Mostly Harmless". I'd say the 5th one is one of the best of the trilogy too. The 6th written by the other guy wasn't half bad either.

[@09Raffytaffy]

Well you are my favorite reactor now! READ the books everybody! They are so amazing!

[@marvin902x]

As you can see from my avatar and alias, I have had a very special relationship with these books throughout my adult life. When I was in college in the early 1990's, these books were a cult across my entire faculty. I still remember my mathematics professor. He was a big fan. My math exam was completely bizarre because there was only one right answer for every problem. 42. So if you got a different result, you already knew you had done something wrong.

[@NateAZ]

The Hitchhiker's Guide to The Galaxy was the very first text computer game I had, back in 1984. It is a classic.

[@cbretschneider]

So glad you did this movie. This movie was one of the best things that happened in the 2000's - trying not to sound like a depressed robot right now. The entire book series is a blast, very much like the film, only much more wacky details that all make sense in a mad way. Quick reads and you'll love them. Stay quirky and classy, Jen. 🥂

[@albert0F]

Yes it it, I'ts Magrathea! . Sam Rockwell is such an amazing actor. I love that line.

[@LogicalNiko]

The HHGTTG series is probably one of the great series of books I remember reading as a kid. The combination of absurdism in a sci-fi setting with such a grand universe was extremely unique and was one of the gateways into enjoying British humor.

[@BobCrabtree-ev4rz]

I have the first book...hysterically funny..as it usually goes,the movie didn't live up to it but there you go.

[@YersinisPestis]

I love how meta the idea of Earth being the computer to figure out the ultimate question considering how we have slowly and organically debated the question, "why is everything?", throughout human history.

[@PaulLoh]

I gave my wife my copy of the book. It's so much more detailed and wacky than the movie. I love how this movie has both Sam and Allen from Galaxy Quest working together again. For a little while, my wife and I considered moving to Tombstone, Arizona. Our plan was to make a sushi restaurant there and call it Saloon And Thanks For All The Fish.

[@Keleigh3000]

Check out the book, for sure. There's also a BBCTV series, and the radio serial which started it all (it's great to listen to on long drives). Each brings something different to the table.

[@danielkillian1222]

Alan Rickman as the robot is great.

[@Ian-lx1iz]

Hey! (25:21) That's _Simon Jones_ as the holographic 'Magarathea is closed' announcer. He was the original _Arthur Dent_ from the TV Series! btw, Jen, the TV series also covered material from Adams' sequel novel 'The Restaurant at the End of the Universe' which this movie doesn't.

[@TennSeven]

This movie made me sad, because it doesn't scratch the surface of the books, but they gave it try, and the actors all turned in great performances.

[@lashier13]

I was pretty happy with the adaptation as a whole, cause how do you adapt something so bonkers in the first place? My only significant problem came with the very last joke: "No, it's at the OTHER end of the universe." It makes me unreasonably angry.

[@tekcomputers]

@@lashier13 Actually that works for me. Because there are actually restaurants at both ends of the universe. "The Restaurant at the End of the Universe" and the "Big Bang Burger Bar" at the other end (the beginning).

[@lashier13]

@@tekcomputers Yeah, but... they turn around. THEY. TURN. AROUND!... Sorry, like I said, my anger's unreasonable. I should take it for what it is, a cheeky wink to fans of the book series, and a possible tease for a sequel, albeit done by someone who didn't actually read the second book yet.. but if I'm being totally honest, I don't remember how they get there in the book, I just remember the surprise that it actually meant THE END of the universe.

[@samurphy]

@@chrisbergsten1429 Screenplay by Douglas Adams

[@kamenanew9867]

​@@samurphythank you, I was literally gonna say. It's so wild how so many people on the Internet say 'oh the writers for the movie didn't get Adams at all' and it's like dude...he is the writers like tf are you talking about. A lot of people also didn't like the point of view gun, but that is taken directly from the text based adventure game also co written by Adams. People are crazy man. It's the same as when someone hears like a tribute song to a dead celebrity and some internet randos born after said person died are like 'oh he would have loved this' and I'm like maybe?! Maybe he's in the afterlife like THIS BEAT IS TRASH HOMIE THANKS I HATE IT. Like you didn't know the person how tf. It's weird cause it makes me feel like when I die family members who legit never got me and never contact me might be like oh Kamen would like this movie, like bs my guy what are you even Sorry I meant to say the first thing and that's all.

[@Alexandrashepiro]

DOuglas Adams's face in the last few secs before the closing credits...EPIC!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@shanenolan5625]

Thank jen. I remember the BBC TV version. As a kid .. I believe radioheas named an album and a song . After Marvin the android. ( paranoid android) .

[@ct5625]

Such an insane but genius story, and a great depiction of it in movie form. I always forget how many absolutely incredible actors there are in this.

[@RichardM1366]

This one is Hilarious! Be prepared to be laughing from beginning to end. If you read the novel it is just as funny! Be prepared for non stop laughter! Enjoy!

[@alexlim864]

Must say, great performance by Alan Rickman - got Marvin's depressed vibe good. RIP Mr. Rickman.

[@PekkaSiltala]

Read the book and listen to the radio play, too.

[@FeaturingRob]

Jen, you are a really hoopy frood who really knows where her towel is!!! (Translation: Jen is an amazing together person (technically guy) who knows where her towel is). - The narration of the film (ie the voice of the Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy) is the great Stephen Fry!!! One of my favorite actors-writers-comedians-intellectuals...he read the audio versions of all of the 'Hitchhiker' novels by Douglas Adams and the British audiobook versions of 'Harry Potter'. - Speaking of 'Harry Potter'...the voice of Marvin, the Paranoid Android is the late Alan Rickman aka Professor Severus Snape. He was perfect for the role, and inside the Marvin costume is Warwick Davis, who played Professor Flitwick and Griphook the Goblin in 'Harry Potter'. - Deep Thought, the computer was Dame Helen Mirren. - 5:07 - The theme for the story (original radio plays on BBC) as well as the BBC comedy series has always been this music by The Eagles, yeah "Hotel California" The Eagles. It is called "The Journey of the Sorcerer", and is on the 'One Of These Nights' album from 1975. It is one of my all-time favorite Eagles tracks, thanks to 'Hitchhiker's Guide'!!! - 25:21 - This cameo at Magrathea is the original actor to play Arthur Dent, Simon Jones. He played Arthur on the radio show in 1978 and in the TV version in 1981. - The last time The Heart Of Gold engages the Improbability Drive, the last image of the film was of Douglas Adams himself, as he died before the film was made even though he co-wrote the screenplay. "I love deadlines. I love the sound they make as they go whooshing by!" - Douglas Adams Thanks for watching this one, Jen. Please read the books...they are wonderfully wacky and hysterically funny!

[@seanmurphy637]

One of my all time favorite book series. This movie doesn't really do it justice, but still pretty fun.

[@amandarose4469]

There are 5 books in the Hitchhikers trilogy.

[@portland-182]

You might like to try the 'Sherlock' TV series starring Martin Freeman and Benedict Cumberbatch. 'Moon' starring Sam Rockwell is great too. For wacky and wild you might try 'Mystery Men'

[@2opler]

22:16 The silver robot with an `X` on the side of it`s head is the `Marvin` the paranoid android from the television series. 25:21 Simon Jones. Played the original Arthur Dent in the radio series and the tv series. 34:44 Douglas Adams. Rest in Peace you genius, and thank you.🙏 After listening to the radio series I bought the book when it was first published as a random pick when I was waiting for my gf.I sat drinking coffee and giggling like an idiot for an hour...people were staring😄 Lent it out 17 times...I counted. I had to buy another copy. People adored it. All the books are excellent.

[@_Tim115]

Definitely read the book also worth watching the TV serial. The music you liked in the beginning was Journey Of The Sorcerer by the Eagles, it was used for the TV serial too.

[@VaughanCockell]

And the very same music was used for the original Radio Series, that started it all.

[@richb313]

Alan Rickman as Marvin is not only brilliant casting but he really personified the essence of Marvin.

[@jamesguerrero2993]

THANK YOU JEN!!! for watching one of my favorite films from one of my favorite books. Douglas Adams was a Genius gone Waaaay too soon. Hope you get to read the book and as you put it so perfectly the reason I love this story is the inventive, wackines, off beat and totally original take on Sci-Fi. Only another Genius Mel Brookes could come up w/something like this. Glad you enjoyed it. 👽👩‍🚀🚀🌌🖖🤘✌

[@revjim123]

This started out as a radio program, then Adams wrote the book. A tv show was made, a video game, and finally this movie. They all tell the same story, but the details vary in each version. Definitely read the book.

[@shainewhite2781]

This film is a fun, wacky, Sci Fi Comedy like no other.

[@michaelmcnamee7865]

I love the fact that the Marvin from the original series was standing in line when they went to the Vogon ship.

[@Yggdrasil42]

Thanks for reacting Jen. So weird but funny. The books are well worth reading. The sense of humor is just perfect I think. They defined my college years.

[@tremorsfan]

At the very end when they are going to the Restaurant At the End Of the Universe, the very last thing the improbability drive turns into is the author Douglas Adams' head. Douglas Adams'mother also makes a cameo as the woman reading a newspaper at the cafe when the earth is about to be destroyed. FYI the ultimate question is "what do you get when you multiply 6 by 9"

[@elingeniero9117]

Alan Rickman is marvellous as the voice of Marvin

[@angelohernandez6060]

The books are excellent! Loved every moment reading them. R.I.P. Douglas Adams and thanks for all the laughs!

[@secretsymphony]

I'm so old, I remember the old TV series as a child...

[@wfly81]

Douglas Adams had such a wild and unique imagination and sense of humor. I think my favorite part of the book that didn't make it into the movie was a little aside where he talks about teenage aliens borrowing their parents' space ship on the weekends to go to primitive planets to make crop circles and run around with antennas on their heads to freak out the locals. The more you think about that, the funnier it gets.

[@pctech714]

Thank you for the reaction! You are indeed a hoopy frood. I grew up with radio series where it all started, which led to the books and somewhere in there was the short-lived TV series. It's funny and coincidental that I've been re-reading all of the books over the last few weeks. I just finished "And Another Thing" which was the last book and written by a different author, since Douglas Adams passed in 2001. Read all of them if you get a chance, but the first two are my favorites because they pretty much adapt everything from the radio series. I thought the movie was ok. It had such a great cast and there were some really good parts, but the changes kinda messed with me a bit since they seemed very unnecessary. I did enjoy the easter eggs, including the original actor from the radio/TV series as the message that appears as the Heart of Gold approaches Magrathea and the original Marvin from the TV series being in the queue as they try to rescue Trillian. Just remember that if you ever do encounter the Ravenous Bugblatter Beast of Traal you should wrap your towel around your head. It's such a mind-bogglingly stupid animal it assumes that if you can't see it, it can't see you.

[@Caroline_Tyler]

The film, the books, the tv shows.....still not a patch on the original radio episodes. Douglas Adamswas an amazing writer

[@charliepepper333]

Jen..the books are a must read! Don’t translate to film well…the books are so freakin hilarious!!

[@bryanbrady877]

I spent some time camping in hammocks, we would all read books and spontaneously quote aloud whatever we found worthy. You seem like exactly the kind of person for that.

[@orbislame]

I want to be the first to say I love this movie but the book is better. Please go read the book.

[@fp4man542]

Or listen to the original radio series.

[@loungelizardatwar7375]

I love the books and the mini-series. My favorite line from the book, (hope I get this right) is "The Vogon fleet hung in the air in exactly the same way a brick doesn't!"

[@LordVolkov]

Don't panic Jen. The writing of Douglas Adams (RIP) is wonderfully absurd, and so much is lost in translation. Hitchkiker's Guide, Restaurant at the End of the Universe, Life the Universe and Everything, So Long and Thanks for All the Fish - the original tetralogy - with Mostly Harmless added in 1992 and ...And Another Thing released posthumously (I have not read it). The yarn🤮 is pretty great though, and Marvin is pitch perfect (even if I don't like his look). RIP to Alan Rickman.

[@JEFFwasHERE...]

"So long and thanks for all the fish." 🐬

[@petersvillage7447]

This story went through quite an evolution - it was originally a radio series, then a book, then a vinyl album, then a TV serial and a stage show and a computer game... and finally this film. If you can cope with old British TV the TV series of Hitch-hiker is well worth your time...

[@tekcomputers]

I'd say anyone who can handle say 70's/80's era BBC scifi (say Tom Baker to Pete Davidson era Doctor Who) would have no problem with the BBC TV miniseries.

[@petersvillage7447]

@@tekcomputers If we're honest its not that far removed in tone from something like Monty Python and the Holy Grail, which was itself a pretty cheap exercise...

[@spud69g]

Love it. I binge this one three times in a row a lot. One normal watch, one with cast commentary and the third with producer commentary. Best commentaries ever. So much extra info about the movie and it's done like a reaction, where they all watch and comment during the film. Not like other ones that just throw recorded clips of actors reading stuff over the film. Top notch.

[@lentrax2991]

Every version of the Guide was different from all the others. But they are all just fantastic. And just remember to always know where your towel is.

[@nigelhyde279]

I didn’t enjoy this, but my HHGTG journey started with the original radio series, then the books and TV show, and the stage play. This didn’t cut it for me can’t explain why.

[@nightfall902]

I totally get it. It seems flat and just misses the marks. The writing is so spot on in the books. I have an audio copy of Doug Adams reading the HHG that I still listen to from time to time.

[@slaintejimmy]

Huge fan here.. I've cosplayed Arthur a few times and was once intercepted by the police in Glasgow Central station en route to a Sci-fi convention.. ..I'd been spotted on CCTV and 'Big Brother' was worried that I'd walked out of a care home.. dressing gown, slippers, towel, etc.. fortunately, the big Cop was a fan and understood what I was up to.. he borrowed my 'guide' and held it up to the security camera, tapping the 'DON'T PANIC' message on its cover, and I was happily back on my way to the convention across town. Douglas would've loved that. 😃 'ZZ9' is the official fan club (running since around 1980), and the radio phases and fits are still the best way to experience Douglas' classic, wacky humour. 🤪 👍

[@mikedignum1868]

Not as good as the BBC series, but then it is an American take on it...But Dont Panic. Restaurant at the end of the Universe is the second part.

[@katenunyabizness9221]

The TV series is super worth watching! The other robot in the queue was the original Marvin from the TV series. The projection from from Magrathea is played by Simon Jones who was Arthur Dent in the radio and TV series.

[@interghost]

The british TV show was soooo much better, and much closer to the books. I was relly disapointed with this movie version.

[@AddlerMartin]

I love how you pay attention to the music in movies

[@TearyEyesAnderson]

Great I loved this TV series, radio series, and novels. Wait... this is the movie huh? Okay, that's pretty good too. ;)

[@jdeamaral]

I couldn't believe the sad, depressed, suicidal robot was Alan Rickman. If I remember right, Hitchhiker's Guide was a running joke, since it was a trilogy with 5 parts.

[@benbamboo5558]

Thanks for your reaction to this! Love it when reactors watch less reacted to movies. And this is certainly one of them despite being so great. I used to watch the 80s tv series based on the same book and it was just as enjoyable and wacky. Some similar offbeat rarely reacted to movies you should watch are "The Adventures of Baron Munchausen" and "Time Bandits". Both are done by Terry Gilliam of Monty Python so you know the humor and strangeness of Python will be present in each.

[@karlmortoniv2951]

Yaaaayyyy!!!! I haven't seen this in years! No shock at all that you dug it. Douglas Adams is not for everyone, but I figured you'd like it. Hitchhiker began originally as a radio show on the BBC. If you can find it, I'd start there. Douglas Adams had a LOT of fun playing with the audio only format - Zaphod's multiple arms and heads began as a recurring joke in the radio show that gave the producers of the TV show and the movie endless headaches when they had to actually visualize it. The first series more or less corresponded to this movie and ended quite definitively because there was no clue on anyone's part how successful it would become. When asked to write a second season Adams had a hell of a time getting it going again, so thoroughly had he ended the show in the first season, but once he did he rather cleverly left the second season open ended so he would have an easier job when asked to come up with a third season. And then the third season never happened so the second season of the original radio show ends on a random cliffhanger, which he found rather amusing. Adams came up with the idea when he was drunk in a field in Austria staring up at the stars. He'd been getting around by consulting a stolen copy of "The Hitchhiker's Guide to Europe" and decided someone should write a guide to the galaxy and it all kind of mushroomed from there. Before he got the Hitchhiker radio show off the ground he wrote with the Monty Python guys for a bit and then was script editor on "Doctor Who" for a couple years. The Hitchhiker radio show made him famous and gave him the wherewithal to do whatever the hell he wanted. 😃 I really like his Dirk Gently books and attempts have been made to make them into TV shows but I don't think they pulled it off at all. He also wrote a book about endangered species of animals called "Last Chance to See" that became a travel/animal show featuring himself exploring stuff before he died. Stephen Fry hosted a follow-up season after Adams dropped off the twig - those are worth checking out, I think. Others mentioned the Hitchhiker TV show which was fine but there have also been a number of sequel books in which the story is continued beyond where the original radio show left off as well as stage versions, computer games, and comic books. Adams would deliberately make each incarnation different so that fans wouldn't get bored. He'd write new episodes, different endings, and new digressions to amuse himself and, hopefully, fans. This movie came out four years after he died ENTIRELY too young of a heart attack. The movie diverges rather significantly from the previous versions of the story and the filmmakers got a fair amount of stick from fans but they always said that the places in the movie that differ most strikingly from what came before were Adams' work, which makes perfect sense. He tried to get the movie made for years but in spite of the massive fan base and provably successful track record everyone in Hollywood told him that you can't mix science fiction and comedy. Adams would say, "But... I have mixed science fiction and comedy..." to which the Hollywood people would say that it couldn't possibly work in movies or someone would have done it already. It was only when "Men in Black" came out and made massive amounts of cash that the Hitchhiker movie got going and a lot of the humor in "Men in Black" was inspired by Adams' work.

[@johnpittsii7524]

Hi Jen hope you are having an great and awesome day ❤

[@jenmurrayxo]

Thanks John you too 👍

[@burkeiowa]

I also liked that they played tribute to the original Marvin robot from the BBC TV series, which is standing in the long line where they have to fill out the paperwork to free Zooey's character. And of course, Alan Rickman voiced the new Marvin, and his voice can play a depressed voice so well, just as Snape voiced disapproval and disappointment in Harry Potter. And the character you recognized from Shaun of the Dead ended up in this movie, where some [mice] characters are trying to get at a human's brains, brains, brains... It seems fitting.

[@irwin3381]

Enjoy Jen , loved the books and the movie 🎥

[@lawrencewestby9229]

I read the book in the early 1980s. I started reading it on the train going to work in NYC. I paused briefly while I transferred to the PARH train in Hoboken and then again as I walked to my office in mid-town. Once at my desk I held the book on my lap and continued reading until I completed it. Fortunately, I had a private office, although I did have to try to stifle my laughter while pretending to work. There are six books in the trilogy, five written by Douglas Adams. The sixth, authorized by Adams' widow, was written by Eion Colfer 17 years after the fifth and 30 years after the first.

[@RoosterCogburn1008]

Please PLEASE put your Fargo series reactions on KZbin!!!

[@GairBear49]

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy was originally a series on BBC Radio in 1978-79. It was then written for TV and came out tin1980. Douglas Adams then started to novelize the story which was to be three Novels( The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy-The Restaurant at the End of the Universe-Life, the Universe, and Everything. He then added two more novels-So Long and Thanks for All the Fish and Mostly Harmless. So there are five Novels in the Trilogy. Adams then started writing the Dirk Gently Novels and other things. He moved to LA to try and get a Hitchhiker's Guide movie started rewrote the novels for radio before he unexpectedly died. His friends helped get the movies finished.

[@lousweirdworld5347]

Hope you enjoy

[@codybrown3326]

The hitchhiker's guide is my favorite book series of all time. And I've enjoyed every adaptation I've ever seen. Douglas Adams managed to put so much amazing content into those books that any writer or director can interpret it and make it their own while still maintaining the essential magic

[@Ian-xx1xb]

Was about to go to sleep but not now lol this is bonkers Jen but fun bonkers 😀 narrated by the brilliant Steven fry who has one of those perfect for audiobook voices 👌 video after video your epicness ( is that even a word 🤔 ) continues it's like Christmas everyday 🎉 ok let's do this 👍

[@lowellupchurch1609]

For some reason this movie is such a settling, peaceful aesthetic to me. I play it when I'm feeling down and all of the colors and set designs are just easy on my eyes. Even though the story is chaotic the aesthetic I find soothing. Can't be that weird lol.

[@ryankeyes3101]

When is the next 007?

[@NewBritainStation]

Sorry for the long post, but while the radio series was first, I love Douglas Adams writing style which I think is best appreciated in the books. I can always tell if somebody will get it or not by giving them the start of the book to read: Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the Western Spiral arm of the Galaxy lies a small unregarded yellow sun. Orbiting this at a distance of roughly ninety-two million miles is an utterly insignificant little blue-green planet whose ape-descended life forms are so amazingly primitive that they still think digital watches are a pretty neat idea. This planet has-or rather had-a problem, which was this: most of the people on it were unhappy for pretty much of the time. Many solutions were suggested for this problem, but most of these were largely concerned with the movements of small green pieces of paper, which is odd because on the whole it wasn’t the small green pieces of paper that were unhappy. And so the problem remained; lots of the people were mean, and most of them were miserable, even the ones with digital watches. Many were increasingly of the opinion that they’d all made a big mistake in coming down from the trees in the first place. And some said that even the trees had been a bad move, and that no one should ever have left the oceans. And then, one Thursday, nearly two thousand years after one man had been nailed to a tree for saying how great it would be to be nice to people for a change, one girl sitting on her own in a small cafe in Rickmansworth suddenly realized what it was that had been going wrong all this time, and she finally knew how the world could be made a good and happy place. This time it was right, it would work, and no one would have to get nailed to anything. Sadly, however, before she could get to a phone to tell anyone about it, a terribly stupid catastrophe occurred, and the idea was lost forever. This is not her story. But it is the story of that terrible stupid catastrophe and some of its consequences. It is also the story of a book, a book called The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy-not an Earth book, never published on Earth, and until the terrible catastrophe occurred, never seen or heard of by any Earthman. Nevertheless, a wholly remarkable book. In fact it was probably the most remarkable book ever to come out of the great publishing houses of Ursa Minor-of which no Earthman had ever heard either. Not only is it a wholly remarkable book, it is also a highly successful one-more popular than the Celestial Home Care Omnibus, better selling than Fifty More Things to do in Zero Gravity, and more controversial than Oolon Colluphid’s trilogy of philosophical blockbusters Where God Went Wrong, Some More of God’s Greatest Mistakes and Who is this God Person Anyway? In many of the more relaxed civilizations on the Outer Eastern Rim of the Galaxy, the Hitchhiker’s Guide has already supplanted the great Encyclopedia Galactica as the standard repository of all knowledge and wisdom, for though it has many omissions and contains much that is apocryphal, or at least wildly inaccurate, it scores over the older, more pedestrian work in two important respects. First, it is slightly cheaper; and secondly it has the words don’t panic inscribed in large friendly letters on its cover. But the story of this terrible, stupid Thursday, the story of its extraordinary consequences, and the story of how these consequences are inextricably intertwined with this remarkable book begins very simply. It begins with a house.

[@kevinmassey1164]

The radio broadcast, book(s), and TV series are all great.

[@squirethemouse3457]

One of my fav movies! This is going on my main playlist

[@jenmurrayxo]

This one was so fun & crazy!! ☺️👍

[@squirethemouse3457]

I believe the vogons nose was up Soo high on the face because they were genetically predisposed to getting hit with a sand shovel monster every time they had an idea

[@MaikKellerhals]

I'm still, after almost 20 years thinking about reading the book. The only thing that still stops me is that i LOVE this movie. And EACH TIME i read a book for a movie, it ruins the movie for me... I know, thinking objectively about it, it doesn't make sense. But neither does life...

[@drenn818]

I dont know how many times I can say u r the greatest Miss Money Jenny. I am glad u got most of the hitchhiker's Guide movie

[@jenmurrayxo]

Thank you, always nice to hear ☺️👍