Oh Nooooooo…

Well, you feared it, I feared it, and it looks as though it’s gone and happened – the film of Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy is completely fucked up beyond all belief.

Now, I have to say that I haven’t seen it, so there’s a faint chance that all will be well and it will be a wonderful adaptation. But, and it’s a big but, I’ve just read the reviews on the Planet Magrathea site. A short sample:

"The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy movie is bad. Really bad. You just won’t believe how vastly, staggeringly, jaw-droppingly bad it is. I mean, you might think that The Phantom Menace was a hopelessly misguided attempt to reinvent a much-loved franchise by people who, though well-intentioned, completely failed to understand what made the original popular – but that’s just peanuts to the Hitchhiker’s movie. Listen.

And so on…"

Oh dear me. Oh bugger. This is bad news indeed.

But don’t take it from me. Read either the short review or the long review – and weep.

Update 26 December 2007: Well, I’ve now seen the film. And you know what? It isn’t as bad as I feared.