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Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy (The BBC TV Series)
Was R202.95Now R182.66(eB 1827)
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Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy (The BBC TV Series)
Studio: BBC
Was R202.95
Now R182.66
It is the most remarkable, certainly the most successful, book ever to come out of the great publishing corporations of Ursa Minor. More popular than the Celestial Home Care Omnibus, better selling than Fifty Three Things to Do in Zero Gravity, and more controversial than Oolon Colluphid's trilogy of philosophical blockbusters - Where God Went Wrong, Some More of God's Greatest Mistakes and Who is this God Person Anyway? So that whingeing Earthling Arthur Dent should be very grateful he had a copy! For after Earth is destroyed to make way for a hyperspace bypass, Arthur Dent is let loose in the furthest recesses of the Galaxy armed only with the aforementioned mysterious but indispensable Guide. Follow Dent's cosmic adventures as he is joined by his pretty weird companions: Zaphod Beeblebrox, Ford Prefect, Trillian-the-Astrophysicist-he-met-at-a-party-in-Islington and Marvin the manically depressed Android. You never know, they may even find the answer to Life, The Universe and Everything! Genre: Sci-Fi / ComedyStarring: Peter Jones, Simon Jones, Sandra Dickinson, David Dixon, Mark Wing-Davey, Gil MorrisDirector: Alan J.W. BellAge Restriction: ARunning Time: 199 minLanguage: EnglishScreen Format: Full Screen 4:3Audio Format: Dolby StereoSpecial Features: The Making Of The Hitchhikers Guide To The GalaxyDont Panic - Additional Making Of MaterialAn Introduction To The 1st EpisodeCommunicate - Behind The Scenes Of The Radio SeriesThe Original BBC2 - Episode 1 TrailerDeleted SceneBehind The ScenesTomorrow's World AnimatronicsRod Lord and Alan JW Bells appearance on Pebble Mill at 1OuttakesPhoto GalleryOn Screen Production NotesScene Access
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 A must for all hoopy froodsReviewed by Ms Linda Borcherds from Cape Town, South Africa on 13 September 2004
135 of 255 people found the following review helpful:
If you know where your towel is, you'll love this TV series. Cheesy 80's low-budget special effects and all!
True to the format of the book, the action is interspersed with animated excerpts from the Guide which are amusing while providing essential background information. I watched the DVD with a friend who hadn't read any of the books and she was hooked.
I disagree that a remake with a slick modern slant would be preferable. This ?1981 production really portrays the true spirit of the original work: intelligent, tongue-in-cheek, laughing at the foibles of sentient beings everywhere.
I'm buying it.
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 It could work nowReviewed by Andre Uys from Cape Town, South Africa on 04 December 2002
156 of 309 people found the following review helpful:
This series can be compared to Lord of the Rings. Only now, with the technology available to the studios, a project like this should have been brought to the screen (big or small). The series, although quite fun, does not do justice to the book. The producers should have known this before they embarked. Nobody wanted to touch Tolkien up to now (can’t count the animated version). Adams (like Tolkien) was a master of his genre. Tolkien's vision was successfully transferred. I would like to see them try again now with Hitchhiker.
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The Real Thing !Reviewed by Smotter from Jo'burg, South Africa on 02 August 2005
136 of 280 people found the following review helpful:
This cheesy '80s 'creen adaptation' of Douglas Adams' book really hits the nail on the head. I recently saw the new bells and whistles' cinamatic version and soon after watched my friends DVD of the BBC TV series. This left me with an irrepresible urge to get my own copy of teh BBC version, which I have just ordered from Kalahari 5 minutes ago. (I wish it was same-day-delivery ...)
In my humble opinion, the BBC version does far more justice to Doug's ideas. The cinema version tends to get lost in vastly overdone special effects, whereas the TV version concentrates on the humour, which is what the Hitchhikers guide is really about. Anyone who has rolled around the floor watching the cheap & nasty, yet hilarious "Red Dwarf" will understand where I'm coming from.
Anyway, I find the CGI stuff from the new version clashes with the wonderful mental images I have treasured all these years, while the TV version refrains from impinging on them at all.
The new movie is great if your preference is for mind numbing eye-candy type special effects. If you want to catch the essence of the original humour, go for the cheesy BBC version.
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