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

Tree-hugging, whale-saving b****cks. I don't understand the appeal of this film. The humour is cheesy and deserves to be on what Slartibartfast knew nothing of (early 60's sitcoms). The best minds on a multi-species earth can't work out what's going on, and yet Spock - all on his own in a Klingon spaceship - in a flash of inspiration decides that the probe is trying to contact some extinct whales . An invisible starship lands in the middle of a San Francisico park for three days and nobody bumps into it the whole time. A helicopter lowers material into the same starship and nobody notices . Scotty's fingers fly across a computer keyboard like he's been doing it all his life (unlikely). I could go on, and on, and on. The entire film is pants from beginning to end. And I'm a Trekkie!

Pants? PANTS?

Pantomime, perhaps. I think you might be taking it a little too seriously. It's almost entirely a gag from start to finish. It's just a shame the next one took itself so seriously.

(interestingly, Wrath of Khan got away with being quite serious, as did Undiscovered Country. How?)

And I do seem to remember hearing a comment years ago from someone who either lived in San Francisco or knows it well that the park they land is MASSIVE, and it's not that unbelievable that the landing struts would go unremarked for a couple of days in a space that huge. (I stress I don't know, I'm just repeating something I read. Anyone from Frisco know the place able to confirm this?)

Thanks for reading - I knew this would rattle up a few comments!



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Hampstead Heath is also pretty damn big, but I doubt that you could hide a Klingon Bird of Prey there for long without someone tripping over it

*Wonders if he should also mention that he loved ST1... decides not to*

I enjoyed the entry though