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Amazingly enough, I've updated my blog again.  There's a few ways of reading my rather lengthy, spoiler-prone review of the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy movie.

• The home page of my blog is spoiler-protected.
• The entry is not spoiler-protected, but contains actual commentary.
• The comments section is spoiler-protected, unless you scroll up.

For reference, the following is my bottom-line for the movie (no spoilers here):

So my verdict: Not bad, but not great either. Could have been improved if the romance between Arthur and Trillian were kept off to the sides and not replaced the ultimate reality of Life, the Universe, and Everything as the central theme. Also, time is not a valid excuse for cutting a lot of the good lines - the movie only ran 1 hour 50 minutes, so putting back some of the good bits that got cut would have not forced the runtime to be excessive. I’d still recommend seeing it, but it doesn’t meet the usual “See it as many times as you can” rating that I usually give to Hitchhiker’s.