I just saw it last night with my son and while he thought it was excellent I just liked it enough...
The biggest problem with the film, as I see it, isn't that it changed the storyline it's that in an effort to adapt the story to a 90 minute three act plot structue they stripped out nearly all of the Guide's commentary and the humourous asides. Everything from the Guide's comments on digital watches to the philosophers Vroomfondle and Magikthise... For me, it was always these elements that made the books, the TV series and the radio plays enjoyable.
When you strip it down to just the story it is interesting and wacky but no where near as hilarious.
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