2005 · adventure · comedy · sci-fi
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Directed by Garth Jennings1h 49m2005
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."
Our read: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (2005) reads as a warm, breathless, inventive adventure · comedy · sci-fi entry — measured in intensity, epic-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, redemptive in outlook.
Warm, breathless, measured adventure / comedy, inventive in texture. Redemptive, epic, measured.
- warm
- kinetic
- inventive
- epic-stakes
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“You want absurd British sci-fi comedy where cosmic bureaucracy meets deadpan panic.”
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