Skip The Budgie

Saw the film yesterday. I really enjoyed it, Marvin is great (look out for the old Marvin in a queue!) and Bill Nighy is an absolute genius as Slartibartfast. Most of the new stuff is related to the original ideas and things mentioned in the story and is pretty well executed. Except for:

1. The Love Stuff
   What the fuck is this all about? Sure, Trillian left Arthur to be with Zaphod, but she doesn't fancy him! It's pretty fucking obvious. She doesn't exactly have a relationship with Zaphod either. I bet it's the production company's fault. This bollocks nearly ruins the whole film.
   
2. The Point Of View Gun
   Ooow, painful. Did they really put this into the film just to augment the love bollocks and make me near throw up on the couple in front of me? Please...
   
3. Earth
   Okay, so let me get this right. The mice tell Slartibartfast they don't need Earth anymore, because they have arthur's brain, right? Everything that's funny in H2G2 is based on the idea that the characters inside it do ridiculous things instead of the obvious. It's about the way people dismiss things that take lots of effort and couldn't care less about anything, really. So we get to keep the Earth and the whole story on which the entire series is based on gets completely fucked over. Well done guys, so the next film (for there are bound to be more) is just going to be flakey bollocks? I guess that's what you get in the cinema these days. Can't expect people to think.
   
4. Nerd Points
   Geek problems, there were lots of bits of silence that should have been filled with the guide, and funny jokes we all know off by heart that could have filled the gaps, but didn't: 'It's at times like this, when I'm trapped in a Vogon airlock with a man from Betelgeuse, and about to die from asphyxiation in deep space that I really wish I'd listened to what my mother told me when I was young.' 'why, what did she tell you?' 'I don't know, I didn't listen.'

   Not a peep.

Apart from all this, I did enjoy the film because I already knew they were going to add new things. That's how the whole series works. They just spent about a third of the film with the love crap instead of being funny, and it's not like they're short of material!