Re:Panic!!!
At the risk of having rocks thrown at me I’m going to say I thought it was OK. Not great, but OK. CNN’s review called it “uneven” and that’s pretty much right on, but there were still a couple of things in the movie that made me laugh out loud. Like the Guide’s cartoonish visuals which accompanied its dialog. And anytime the Infinite Improbability Drive was used, silly things happened.
But I thought that Ford Prefect really didn’t have much to do or say in the last half of the movie. And I could have done without the love interest between Trillian and Arthur – clearly an attempt to “Hollywood-ize” this movie.
So of course the die-hard fans are going to hate it, the people who’ve never heard of it are going to be confused, and the casual fan is going to say “it was OK. Not great, but OK.”
They could have made a better movie.