The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (2005) Critic Reviews

Mr. Jennings and Mr. Goldsmith have held onto a genuine sense of childlike wonder, which works as a nice corrective to what might otherwise come across as an overabundance of hip.Read the full review

Hits the screen with its disarmingly droll spirit quite intact.Read the full review

Wildly imaginative, humane, playful and deflating of all pretense.Read the full review

Go with the whimsical flow that includes a hilariously morose robot named Marvin, voiced by the great Alan Rickman with the weight of the galaxy resonating in every bored, cynical syllable. Adams would be pleased.Read the full review

At selected moments the Pee Wee's Playhouse-scaled visual goofiness and flights of thespian bravura in this long-awaited movie adaptation of Douglas Adams' goofy-wise cult classic are in perfect celestial harmony with the existential tomfoolery of Adams' peerless (and peerlessly Monty Python-British) creation.Read the full review

Not every moment works, particularly in the draggy middle section, but the spirit of the thing still carries it along.Read the full review

This is a movie about improbability, randomness and absurdity. It almost goes without saying, you can't get in a panic about having everything.Read the full review

An extremely pleasant, consistently amusing diversion that is never as uproarious as you might hope. But don't panic, as the Guide would say. In a pinch, it will do.Read the full review

More smile-inducing than laugh-aloud funny.Read the full review