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

I'm not sure kids today get this... with no cold war experience, they'd lack a frame of reference.

The classic Warner Brothers animation.

Both of these are/were great for adults, too.

I was in Manchester when the film version came out a few years ago. Actually, it had been out a month or so when I finally got around to seeing it.

So, I buy my ticket, go to the screen, and find the place completely empty. I waited for the film to come on, and the place remained desert except for me. I was the only person in that screening.

I loved it. It was funny in the style of bad puns that fall flat, just like I remember the original cartoon being. It was funny because it tried too hard to be funny, and didn't manage it. Sort of post-modern irony funny. Which I imagine is what was intended. If not, then I was watching a completely different film to the one they planned.


Geggs

Sounds like the right one. I thought the teenage FBI agent (or was it CIA) was really disruptive to the self-aware basis of the thing.