The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (film)/YMMV

"Questular: (jealous) She's lying. She's skinny, and she's pretty, and she's lying!"
 * Crowning Music of Awesome: The main theme.
 * Ear Worm: "So long and thanks for all the fish, so sad that it had come to this, we tried to warn you all but oh dear..."
 * Freud Was Right: Questular has an instant dislike to Trillian.


 * He Changed It Again But It Sucks This Time
 * Hilarious in Hindsight: The team appearing as knitted figures before achieving normality, seeing as Stephen Fry is the guide to both universes...
 * Love It or Hate It
 * Misblamed: Many things the fans complained about were Adams' intention from when he first outlined this adaptation - fans should remember that he tried to work in new bits into every new Hitchhiker's adaptation - and much of the script was written by him.
 * Older Than They Think: Some people think that the movie ripped off the name "Babel Fish" from the website. Completely forgetting of course, that it is based on the biblical story of the "Tower of Babel".
 * And that the name of the website comes from the book.
 * Romantic Plot Tumor: This very movie features a fairly obvious example of this trope, between Arthur and Trillian. The "original" source materials (book, TV and radio series) all handled their past differently, but agreed that Arthur had been briefly interested in Trillian during a single superficial encounter in the past; when he re-encounters her during the story, he displays jealousy at a few points, but not much more than that. By comparison, the movie version features an Arthur who is desperately pining over Trillian, who could have been his one true love had he not been afraid to pursue her, and he spends most of the movie time thinking about, worrying about or focusing on her. This was deliberately inserted by Douglas Adams when drafting the movie, before his death, to increase studio interest and audience acceptance of the movie.


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