H2G2

So all the reviews say, Not as bad as everyone thinks. I'll go with that.

Actually, I'm one who believes that you should judge a movie on whether it works for itself, not on how closely it reproduces the book. Books aren't movies, right? Things that work on the page don't work on the screen.

So I--the easily pleased one--liked it a lot. It made me laugh, even at lines and scenes I knew were coming. It bounced along and seemed to hit the right level of non-serious meaning. Yes, I knew some plot had been reconstructed and some lines were missing or altered. But if I didn't focus on comparing the two, I was fine with the film.