Will they ever make a sequel to this? GALAXY QUEST: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-4fzSAQ2EqZM.html BEETLEJUICE: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-B4nD8cTjBmU.html SHAU OF THE DEAD: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-eFBjRm-KR_M.html
Jen, they were in the process of making a sequel to Galaxy Quest, but sadly Alan Rickman passed away. So the project never came to be. To honor this great actor, may I suggest, Quigley Down Under! One of his most memorable roles.😊
Sadly, although talks were in progress for a Galaxy Quest sequel, the death of Allan Rickman cancelled it, since no one involved wanted to do one without him. Shaun of the Dead was a self-contained piece of The Cornetto Trilogy, so there is no plan or need for a sequel. A Beetlejuice sequel is in production and said to be looking at a September, 2024 release.
For the record, "Arthur Dent" is the single greatest Halloween costume that exists, especially for jobs that let you dress up on Halloween. Pajamas, bathrobe, towel.
So insightful and true. Presidents are just deep state puppets, and in the spirit of this movie, the deep state puppetmasters are in turn controlled by reptilitan aliens.
It's a humorous coincidence that Martin Freeman played both Arthur Dent and Bilbo Baggins, two extremely similar characters in similar basic stories. A quiet little man who enjoys his quiet little life in his cozy little home, taken on an unwanted adventure, involving a ring, by a mysterious friend who isn't what he seems.
When he was first announced as Bilbo I knew he’d be perfect considering his performance in this, was kinda disappointed with the execution of the movies but he was great as Bilbo 100%
So much fun, but I love the tv show even more. Its only 6 episodes, so you could do it for your channel. As always, a wonderful reaction Jen. I love how you fully give yourself over to the story. Best reactor on RU-vid. The books are amazing. All 5 books in the trilogy are a treat.
I like every incarnation of it,The Radio series, The books , The TV show and this movie, all different from each other but the same in a lot of ways as well. i love the radio show and the books the most though.
I'm probably not the first to mention that the movie don't really do the books justice. But than again, I guess it's impossible to do so. But the movie is probably as good as it can get when you have to press the "essence" of several books into two hours.
@@MrChiddler I unfortunately hadn't the chance to listen to the radio series. I'm from Germany, and back when I read the books as a teen, there was no internet yet, so no practical way to get my hands on a copy. But maybe I should fill my gaps and check it out now. Should be available somewhere I guess.
One of my favorite quotes from *The Restaurant at the End of the Universe:* _"You guys are so unhip it's a wonder your bums don't fall off."_ ~Zaphod Beeblebrox
The HHGTTG series is probably one of the great series of books I remember reading as a kid. The combination of absurdism in a sci-fi setting with such a grand universe was extremely unique and was one of the gateways into enjoying British humor.
So glad you did this movie. This movie was one of the best things that happened in the 2000's - trying not to sound like a depressed robot right now. The entire book series is a blast, very much like the film, only much more wacky details that all make sense in a mad way. Quick reads and you'll love them. Stay quirky and classy, Jen. 🥂
@@aaronbarlow4376 it never gets said. it all starts with some pan dimensional beings who built a super computer (called Deep Thought) to find the ANSWER... " to life, existence, and everything " . . . the super computer tells them it will take 7.5 million years to calculate the answer, and when they return ( yes - they DO return 7.5 million years later ) its claims the answer is "42", which baffles the pan dimensional beings. it then goes on to explain to them that the answer is useless without the question... and it doesnt KNOW the question, but the computer can build a BETTER computer that CAN come up with the question. the "better" computer it builds.... is Earth. but some random aliens who specialize in inter stellar highway construction blew up the earth to make way for a highway, and now the question was lost.
Jen this movie is right up your alley and I highly recommend reading the series of books by Douglas Adams, Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy, The Restaurant at the End of the Universe, Life the Universe and Everything and lastly So Long and Thanks for all the Fish. They are all quick reads and hilarious
@@Aryaba Agreed, the movie casting was brilliant, but the definitive Ford and Arthur will always be David Dixon and Simon Jones (he made a small cameo as the Magrathean recording).
So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish was touted on the cover as "The fourth book in the hitchhiker's trilogy". You should read at least these four. Douglas Adams will have you laughing out loud.
You're forgetting "Mostly Harmless". I'd say the 5th one is one of the best of the trilogy too. The 6th written by the other guy wasn't half bad either.
Did anyone else recognise the original Paranoid Android Marvin from The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy TV Series... He was on the far left queuing @22:16... 😂👍🤖
A towel is the most useful item in the universe. It has a lot of uses, but the main one is that if you have a towel, people think you have other items and they will be more likely to lend you stuff.
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy was originally a series on BBC Radio in 1978-79. It was then written for TV and came out tin1980. Douglas Adams then started to novelize the story which was to be three Novels( The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy-The Restaurant at the End of the Universe-Life, the Universe, and Everything. He then added two more novels-So Long and Thanks for All the Fish and Mostly Harmless. So there are five Novels in the Trilogy. Adams then started writing the Dirk Gently Novels and other things. He moved to LA to try and get a Hitchhiker's Guide movie started rewrote the novels for radio before he unexpectedly died. His friends helped get the movies finished.
The book is so funny, one qoute that sticks with me described the space ships in the beginning "The ships hung in the sky in much the same way that bricks don't."
You might like to try the 'Sherlock' TV series starring Martin Freeman and Benedict Cumberbatch. 'Moon' starring Sam Rockwell is great too. For wacky and wild you might try 'Mystery Men'
The hitchhiker's guide is my favorite book series of all time. And I've enjoyed every adaptation I've ever seen. Douglas Adams managed to put so much amazing content into those books that any writer or director can interpret it and make it their own while still maintaining the essential magic
This one is Hilarious! Be prepared to be laughing from beginning to end. If you read the novel it is just as funny! Be prepared for non stop laughter! Enjoy!
1. The 'hologram' head that appears to warn them of the missiles, is the actor who played Martin Freemans' character, in the original BBC tv series and subsequent radio version of the books!!! 2. The brief glimpse of a human head, at the end, is the books author, Douglas Adams. 3. The guy who directed the film also directed the 'Guy' movie with Ryan Reynolds, and the 'Sing' films!!!
Hey! (25:21) That's _Simon Jones_ as the holographic 'Magarathea is closed' announcer. He was the original _Arthur Dent_ from the TV Series! btw, Jen, the TV series also covered material from Adams' sequel novel 'The Restaurant at the End of the Universe' which this movie doesn't.
THANK YOU JEN!!! for watching one of my favorite films from one of my favorite books. Douglas Adams was a Genius gone Waaaay too soon. Hope you get to read the book and as you put it so perfectly the reason I love this story is the inventive, wackines, off beat and totally original take on Sci-Fi. Only another Genius Mel Brookes could come up w/something like this. Glad you enjoyed it. 👽👩🚀🚀🌌🖖🤘✌
Thanks for reacting Jen. So weird but funny. The books are well worth reading. The sense of humor is just perfect I think. They defined my college years.
Douglas Adams had such a wild and unique imagination and sense of humor. I think my favorite part of the book that didn't make it into the movie was a little aside where he talks about teenage aliens borrowing their parents' space ship on the weekends to go to primitive planets to make crop circles and run around with antennas on their heads to freak out the locals. The more you think about that, the funnier it gets.
This started out as a radio program, then Adams wrote the book. A tv show was made, a video game, and finally this movie. They all tell the same story, but the details vary in each version. Definitely read the book.
Douglas Adams famously wrote the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy books, radio play, TV series, and movie, and while they all tell the same basic story, there are tons of differences between them all, because he just kept revising things, throwing in different jokes, etc. With some IPs it's easy to look at different adaptations and say which is more true to the original, but with Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy they're all vastly different, yet all equally true to the original, because they're all the same author's humour and storytelling.
Thank you for the reaction! You are indeed a hoopy frood. I grew up with radio series where it all started, which led to the books and somewhere in there was the short-lived TV series. It's funny and coincidental that I've been re-reading all of the books over the last few weeks. I just finished "And Another Thing" which was the last book and written by a different author, since Douglas Adams passed in 2001. Read all of them if you get a chance, but the first two are my favorites because they pretty much adapt everything from the radio series. I thought the movie was ok. It had such a great cast and there were some really good parts, but the changes kinda messed with me a bit since they seemed very unnecessary. I did enjoy the easter eggs, including the original actor from the radio/TV series as the message that appears as the Heart of Gold approaches Magrathea and the original Marvin from the TV series being in the queue as they try to rescue Trillian. Just remember that if you ever do encounter the Ravenous Bugblatter Beast of Traal you should wrap your towel around your head. It's such a mind-bogglingly stupid animal it assumes that if you can't see it, it can't see you.
Jen, you are a really hoopy frood who really knows where her towel is!!! (Translation: Jen is an amazing together person (technically guy) who knows where her towel is). - The narration of the film (ie the voice of the Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy) is the great Stephen Fry!!! One of my favorite actors-writers-comedians-intellectuals...he read the audio versions of all of the 'Hitchhiker' novels by Douglas Adams and the British audiobook versions of 'Harry Potter'. - Speaking of 'Harry Potter'...the voice of Marvin, the Paranoid Android is the late Alan Rickman aka Professor Severus Snape. He was perfect for the role, and inside the Marvin costume is Warwick Davis, who played Professor Flitwick and Griphook the Goblin in 'Harry Potter'. - Deep Thought, the computer was Dame Helen Mirren. - 5:07 - The theme for the story (original radio plays on BBC) as well as the BBC comedy series has always been this music by The Eagles, yeah "Hotel California" The Eagles. It is called "The Journey of the Sorcerer", and is on the 'One Of These Nights' album from 1975. It is one of my all-time favorite Eagles tracks, thanks to 'Hitchhiker's Guide'!!! - 25:21 - This cameo at Magrathea is the original actor to play Arthur Dent, Simon Jones. He played Arthur on the radio show in 1978 and in the TV version in 1981. - The last time The Heart Of Gold engages the Improbability Drive, the last image of the film was of Douglas Adams himself, as he died before the film was made even though he co-wrote the screenplay. "I love deadlines. I love the sound they make as they go whooshing by!" - Douglas Adams Thanks for watching this one, Jen. Please read the books...they are wonderfully wacky and hysterically funny!
Don't panic Jen. The writing of Douglas Adams (RIP) is wonderfully absurd, and so much is lost in translation. Hitchkiker's Guide, Restaurant at the End of the Universe, Life the Universe and Everything, So Long and Thanks for All the Fish - the original tetralogy - with Mostly Harmless added in 1992 and ...And Another Thing released posthumously (I have not read it). The yarn🤮 is pretty great though, and Marvin is pitch perfect (even if I don't like his look). RIP to Alan Rickman.
The original radio play by Douglas Adams was truly astonishing and became a record, a book, a video game and a television series. It should have been an incredible film too but Douglas Adams struggled to get Hollywood to agree to create it. In fact, he almost made a film about how difficult it was to make a film in Hollywood. This lacklustre version of his writings was created long after his death and despite its wonderful cast of actors fails to live up to his creativity in so many ways. He was truly a hoopy frood who really knew where his towel was.
Re-watch. 💜 Alan Rickman voiced Marvin the android but it was Warwick Davis that was inside the costume, he also was in the Wicket the Ewok costume in Return of the Jedi.
I didn’t enjoy this, but my HHGTG journey started with the original radio series, then the books and TV show, and the stage play. This didn’t cut it for me can’t explain why.
I totally get it. It seems flat and just misses the marks. The writing is so spot on in the books. I have an audio copy of Doug Adams reading the HHG that I still listen to from time to time.
I'm still, after almost 20 years thinking about reading the book. The only thing that still stops me is that i LOVE this movie. And EACH TIME i read a book for a movie, it ruins the movie for me... I know, thinking objectively about it, it doesn't make sense. But neither does life...
So Fun fact (just in case it hasn't clicked yet): Both Sam Rockwell AND Alan Rickman are in this movie which makes two Sci-Fi/Comedies they've appeared in together - that I know of. The other is Galaxy Quest. Alan Rickman is the Robot in this movie. Well the voice at least. I don't think they had him in that suit all the time. lol.
I also liked that they played tribute to the original Marvin robot from the BBC TV series, which is standing in the long line where they have to fill out the paperwork to free Zooey's character. And of course, Alan Rickman voiced the new Marvin, and his voice can play a depressed voice so well, just as Snape voiced disapproval and disappointment in Harry Potter. And the character you recognized from Shaun of the Dead ended up in this movie, where some [mice] characters are trying to get at a human's brains, brains, brains... It seems fitting.
Love it. I binge this one three times in a row a lot. One normal watch, one with cast commentary and the third with producer commentary. Best commentaries ever. So much extra info about the movie and it's done like a reaction, where they all watch and comment during the film. Not like other ones that just throw recorded clips of actors reading stuff over the film. Top notch.
Douglas Adams was inspired to write this while drunk in a field looking up at the stars and then a travel guide called "Hitchhikers Guide to Europe" and thought someone should make a Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy.
Such a fun movie . Jim Henson company made the vogans. The reason their noses were so high up is because they used to think and those things in the ground kept smacking them in the face and their bodies evolved into looking that way.
The TV series is super worth watching! The other robot in the queue was the original Marvin from the TV series. The projection from from Magrathea is played by Simon Jones who was Arthur Dent in the radio and TV series.
my childhood in rural michigan in the early 80's (born in 1973) was listening to the bbc radio series for hitch hikers guide that my brother recorded on cassette tape off the radio ..its my favorite over all between the radio/tv series/movie .. the narrator in the radio series is the voice i hear when i think of hhg
Douglas Adams (RIP) was an amazing writer. To this day, one of my favourite lines in all of fiction is found in Hitchhiker's - "The ships of the Vogon constructor fleet hung in the air in exactly the same way that bricks don't" No idea why but I find that to be incredibly funny! Yes, read the book, it's fantastic!
He was great at writing contradictory imagery. My favourite was when Arthur attempted to drink "a liquid that was almost, but not quite, entirely unlike tea."
Was about to go to sleep but not now lol this is bonkers Jen but fun bonkers 😀 narrated by the brilliant Steven fry who has one of those perfect for audiobook voices 👌 video after video your epicness ( is that even a word 🤔 ) continues it's like Christmas everyday 🎉 ok let's do this 👍
Love your reaction, this was a favourite franchise of mine as a kid, and absolutely loved this movie as an adult. It's a shame we lost Adams before he could make the rest of his "Trilogy in Five Parts" as movies. One of many fun easter eggs here is that in thebscene where theu jave to queue up, there is a silver, boxy, humanish-looking robot - that was Marvin from a 1981 version of Hitch Hiker's Guide To The Galaxy. Quick background for those playing the home game - this started as a BBC Radio Play that then become two books, which then became a BBC TV show, he then expanded the book series a few times. He also delighted in making each version a bit different from the others 😆
That opening theme was Journey of the Sorcerer by the Eagles: A great piece of music that, uh, came out right before I did. It was also used in the old Hitchhiker's Guide TV series.
'Goodbye and thanks for all the fish' 'A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.' - Douglas Adams
I spent some time camping in hammocks, we would all read books and spontaneously quote aloud whatever we found worthy. You seem like exactly the kind of person for that.
Forgot to mention in my earlier post, the actor in the hologram welcoming committee to Magrathea, is Simon Jones, who plays Arthur in the original BBC series.
I remember reading the book (or the fist in the series) when I was a teenager - it hooked me so bad, that I actually read it in one sitting, only put it down to go to the bathroom and eat (quickly).
22:16 The silver robot with an `X` on the side of it`s head is the `Marvin` the paranoid android from the television series. 25:21 Simon Jones. Played the original Arthur Dent in the radio series and the tv series. 34:44 Douglas Adams. Rest in Peace you genius, and thank you.🙏 After listening to the radio series I bought the book when it was first published as a random pick when I was waiting for my gf.I sat drinking coffee and giggling like an idiot for an hour...people were staring😄 Lent it out 17 times...I counted. I had to buy another copy. People adored it. All the books are excellent.
The books are great. There are six of them in the "trilogy", which just plays right into their absurdity. That is their central theme, the absurdity of humans, played out on a universal scale, through myriad other species. Adams and Terry Prachett were both great at writing satire about our foibles. Adams mostly in sci-fi, Pratchett mostly in fantasy(Discworld series). They were two of my favorites, RIP to both.
One of the funniest book series I’ve ever read. Just remember: Don’t Panic and Never go anywhere without your towel. Wacky movies: “The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across The 8th Dimension,” “Cannonball Run,” “Big Trouble In Little China,” and “The Golden Child.” It’s a shame they never did the other books.
Love the TV series more - very quotable! Those swishing doors say "Glad to be of service" every time and Marvin calls them smug, self-satisfied 🤣 Douglas Adams was a genius.
I read the book when I was about 12 years old. Completely changed my outlook on life, I kid you not. Loved the book, the TV show and the film. All quite different but fantastic.
I couldn't believe the sad, depressed, suicidal robot was Alan Rickman. If I remember right, Hitchhiker's Guide was a running joke, since it was a trilogy with 5 parts.
I'm old enough to have heard the radio series, I read all of the books many times, and I loved the TV show when it was released. I watched this film with eager anticipation, and was shocked at how bad it was. I still believe they would never have been allowed to butcher it like that if Adams hadn't died before it was filmed. To those people that like it, I'm glad you do. And if it encourages you to go and watch, listen, and read the earlier incarnations, even better.
as several others have mentioned, hitchhiker's began as a BBC radio show in 1978, it was like an oasis in a desert of mediocracy, the sound effects still sound unique and other-worldly to this day. If you ever get to see the TV series (a mere 6 episodes) please be gentle and kind, they had a minuscule budget and primitive special effects. BTW in the TV and Radio versions the indispensable usefulness of towels is explained, and they get to go to the restaurant at the end of the universe.
I hate reading, and I read this book a couple decades ago and loved it. I gave it to my adult son. He's been reading it, and likes it too. I read the book before the movie came out, and it was WAY better, as is usually the case I'd imagine
Huge fan here.. I've cosplayed Arthur a few times and was once intercepted by the police in Glasgow Central station en route to a Sci-fi convention.. ..I'd been spotted on CCTV and 'Big Brother' was worried that I'd walked out of a care home.. dressing gown, slippers, towel, etc.. fortunately, the big Cop was a fan and understood what I was up to.. he borrowed my 'guide' and held it up to the security camera, tapping the 'DON'T PANIC' message on its cover, and I was happily back on my way to the convention across town. Douglas would've loved that. 😃 'ZZ9' is the official fan club (running since around 1980), and the radio phases and fits are still the best way to experience Douglas' classic, wacky humour. 🤪 👍
I read this book when I was 11 because the cover looked cool. I had no clue WTH i was reading. And I was reading things like The Shinning and The Stand at the time.
Douglas Adams wrote this for a BBC Radio series which I first heard on copied cassette tapes in college in 1980. It changed my outlook on the meaning, or lack there of, of life. From the radio program to the BBC TV series to the books Douglas Adams kept rewriting it everytime, discarding bits and sticking in other bits, same with this movie. In one version there's a whole bit about the British Shoe Corporation, in another Author is see as a god on one planet. So... it is worth seeing or reading every single version he was involved with.
