The BBC mini-series is great, but it greatly compresses the story.

The movie was written by Adams to exist on its own with its own identity away from the radio plays and the books which didn't sit well with a lot of people. I liked the movie, personally.

I thought the movie was awful, both as an adaptation and as a movie in general. I love the BBC mini-series, though.

DIdn't know that. I should give it another chance. The whale scene did make me smile and I liked that Mos Def was Mr. Perfect; he's just awkwardly perfect in everything he's in.

Very true.

Heh.. I said that as well about the same video on a different Ham Week post this week and was thinking "fuckit I'm just going to resubmit Pickle Surprise again.." some of you guys were probably in short-pants when that was originally submitted!

I liked it because it was one of the first "grownup" books that I read, but damned if I can remember too much of the plot. But what I do remember is that when I read Gravity's Rainbow some years later, it kind of made sense to me because I had read HHGTG. LIke, the two novels are in no way related, but according to Adams nothing is, or everything is, I can't remember..

I'd say about half of it has aged pretty poorly.