When a film has to read from a book for you to understand it, you know you really should turn of the player and just read instead. That being said this is a funny movie and I think gets at some of the cleverness and humor that Douglas Adams was going for (My only encounter with the book is through others repeating the story). It is very reminiscent of Monty Python's The Meaning of Life (trivia: Adams helped write for Monty Python's The Flying Circus TV show). The story is basically a couple of humans accidentally being saved and then traveling the universe only to find out that life's meaning is more elusive than a whale falling out of the air from a couple of thousand feet. The 750 million year old super-computer has it right, you have to know what the question means before any answers will make sense. Overall a very entertaining film which both pokes fun at the search for meaning while affirming a sort of universal drive for it.
September 15, 2005
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