The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Critic Reviews

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MovieWeb: 3 reviews

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RottenTomatoes: 199 reviews

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Julian Roman MovieWeb (Top Critic)

80

Full Review » 7 years ago
Lisa Schwarzbaum Entertainment Weekly (Top Critic)

67

[It has] visual goofiness and flights of thespian bravura.
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Manohla Dargis New York Times (Top Critic)

70

Hugely likable.
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Mike Clark USA Today (Top Critic)

63

Galaxy is good enough to keep you rooting for it, but the mode of transport needs fresher points and plugs.
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Teresa Wiltz Washington Post (Top Critic)

Although Hitchhiker starts out a total gas, it doesn't have enough fuel to sustain the ride, ultimately amounting to little more than some amusing gags strung together in search of a story.
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Desson Thomson Washington Post (Top Critic)

A pleasant surprise.
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Ty Burr Boston Globe (Top Critic)

63

It's impossible to dislike a film where the hero, a mild-mannered Englishman named Arthur Dent, traverses the universe in his bathrobe because Earth was destroyed before breakfast.
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Jessica Winter Village Voice (Top Critic)

Studiously harmless, Disney's long-in-development film rendition pasteurizes the book's renegade verve with typical means: special effects and gooey romance.
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Jack Mathews New York Daily News (Top Critic)

63

The film is way too goofy for all but the most thumbstruck Hitchhiker.
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Amy Biancolli Houston Chronicle (Top Critic)

100

A beautifully odd duck and a faithful-in-spirit adaptation of Douglas Adams' iconic sci-fi ramble.
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Nancy Churnin Dallas Morning News (Top Critic)

67

The long-awaited film adaptation of Douglas Adams' wildly popular 1970s radio series turned book series turned British television series keeps most of the concepts and humor intact.
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Michael Booth Denver Post (Top Critic)

75

Hitchhiker is a one-off parody of a certain moment in arrested adolescence, but it's a charming way to look at the world.
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Anthony Lane New Yorker (Top Critic)

The problem is not that the film debases the book but that movies themselves are too capacious a home for such comedy, with its tea-steeped English musings and its love of bitty, tangential gags.
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Roger Ebert Chicago Sun-Times (Top Critic)

50

Like The Life Aquatic With Steve Zissou, but with much less visual charm, it is a conceit with little to be conceited about.
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Robert K. Elder Chicago Tribune (Top Critic)

75

Even if this new version of Hitchhiker doesn't quite capture it all, you'll still want to stick your thumb out and catch a ride.
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Steven Rea Philadelphia Inquirer (Top Critic)

63

Lost in a time warp of its own doing (or non-doing), Hitchhiker's Guide just doesn't seem terribly original.
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Jeff Strickler Minneapolis Star Tribune (Top Critic)

63

Although clever and zany, the pacing is problematic.
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Bill Muller Arizona Republic (Top Critic)

70

Given the movie's peculiar context, [the book] should be required reading before anyone is allowed into the theater.
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Leslie Felperin Variety (Top Critic)

Inheriting baggy source material, talky pic remains more smile-inducing than laugh-aloud funny and has pacing and coherence problems. Thankfully, strong visuals and sight gags punch up the package.
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Kyle Smith New York Post (Top Critic)

75

Adams' wordplay and irreverence are aimed roughly at the level of a sharp 14-year-old, but the movie is so engaging, it just about makes everyone feel 14 again.
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Roger Moore Orlando Sentinel (Top Critic)

40

They've finally gone and made a Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy movie. And they've blown it. Not completely. Just enough to break an interstellar hitchhiker's heart.
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Peter Howell Toronto Star (Top Critic)

63

The long-overdue screen adaptation of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy is likely to amuse and vex fans while leaving casual observers mildly baffled.
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Liam Lacey Globe and Mail (Top Critic)

63

By the film's final third, you begin to wonder when, or if, it is going to reach a conclusion.
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Stephanie Zacharek Salon.com (Top Critic)

[The movie] captures the quizzical, quasi-spiritual nature of [Adams'] book and manages to nail a surprising number of his dry little jokes, even some that you think could work only on the page.
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David Edelstein Slate (Top Critic)

An extremely pleasant, consistently amusing diversion that is never as uproarious as you might hope.
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