h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Just wanted to say I lurve this Entry. Cheered me up no end!

I especially love 'Free Hat', the fact that a film can be so bad that it kills the entire audience...

I believe it was called SpiceWorld.

Aw never saw that...was it really that bad?

But it had Stephen Fry in it!

Well I'm still alive, so I clearly didn't see all of it.

Perhaps, if I get a bit depressed... It does explain the incomprehensible failure of Mel B's 'LA State of Mind' to sell by the bucketload...

SpiceWorld was campy and self aware... If it had been serious it would have been very bad indeed.

Gigli on the other hand...

(I've not seen it but from scenes I've read about,


Very nice article by the way GodBen.

I agree, good article. Although I didn't care for the movie, I've always liked the TV series. I'm a big fan of animated films, especially Pixar's with their excellent 3D technique AND their excellent writing, voice acting, etc. There are a lot of poor animations out there, due mostly to concentrating on animation technique (usually 3D which has made great advances in recent years) at the expense of story and character. For me, South Park's minimalist animation shows that a good story can carry the day.

I liked the movie... Some of the musical numbers got tedious but it was a load of laughs. But I think the funniest thing was how it kept that R rating. According to Trey and Matt they were still pretty upset that their first movie, Orgasmo, was given an NC-17 rating (basically an X rating, no one under 17 allowed). There was very minimal nudity in it. I think the only true nudity it contained was Matt Stone's posterior, the rest is off camera and yet it still couldn't get an R rating. Here in the states NC-17 or unrated movies can not do the business they deserve because of the prudish attitudes of theatre owners and film distributers (remember that Kubrick controversally digitally altered Eyes Wide Shut for the US because of this). Well, with SP: B,L&U they now had Paramount behind them so they were not going to settle with cutting their film for an R. The MPAA (US Rating board) do not tell film makers what needs to be cut for a rating change, they just let the film makers resubmit the film for a new rating. Well, everytime the MPAA returned SP:BLU with and NC-17 Matt & Trey returned it with MORE bad words and adult content. They did this several times (which explains some of the more graphic yet hilarious scenes, especially with Sadam and Satan I suspect). Finally the MPAA relented and gave them their R rating.

They used a different tactic for Team America... the extended "puppet sex" scene was intentionally way over the top so that the MPAA would focus on that. This way when they resubmitted the film with a cleaned up version they got their R while still keeping all the others scenes that would normally have merited an NC-17 by themselves.

Yeah I like South Park...........it's good to have some of that type of humour going on. I dot care what the politically correct grannies say.............occasionally even Officer Barbrady comes oou with sonme home truths.

Uncle Jamal