Review – The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy

When I was in high school, one of my friends was a real Douglas Adams nut. He’d quote this stuff like it was the most profound thing since the epistles of Paul. Even a quarter century later I think that still colors my perception of the stuff. Some of it is funny. A lot of it, however, plays like one of those skits on Monty Python’s Flying Circus that’s more odd than humorous. The plot (for anyone not already familiar) is the story of Arthur Dent, an ordinary guy suddenly sucked off the Earth right before it’s destroyed to make way for an interstellar highway. High jinks ensue. I’m guessing fans of the books will get a kick out of it, but it left me a little flat. Mildly amusing