TV Guide: The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy

Video: Teaser Trailer

Trailer Addict — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 12:00:00 -0500

Douglas Adams's long-awaited film version of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, based on his five-book series, is a funny, wacky, highly creative ride through a bizarre universe. Martin Freeman stars as Arthur Dent, a British everyman suddenly thrust into intergalactic intrigue when the earth is destroyed by the Vogons to make room for an interspatial highway. Arthur travels the skyways with good friend Ford Prefect (Mos Def), an alien writer for an electronic encyclopedia called The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. Things get downright dangerous--and absolutely hysterical--when Arthur and Ford thumb a ride with the president of the universe, two-headed Zaphod Beeblebrox (a wild and crazy Sam Rockwell); earthling Tricia McMillan (Zooey Deschanel), whom Arthur once had a thing for back in England; and a perpetually depressed robot named Marvin (voiced by Alan Rickman, played by Warwick Davis). With much of the galaxy after them, the motley crew makes its way toward a super-computer

Video: Trailer

Trailer Addict — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 12:00:00 -0500

DON T PANIC! You are about to join the most ordinary man in the world on a most extraordinary space adventure across the universe to the furthest edges of irreverent sci-fi comedy in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. So grab a good towel, stick your thumb out at the stars and get ready for a mind-boggling ride of cosmically funny proportions. Twenty years in the making, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy brings the story that became beloved by millions -- and a part of the world s pop cultural zeitgeist -- at long last to the movie screen. Mix-mastering science fiction, comedy, adventure and philosophy into one original entertainment experience, acclaimed author and Renaissance man Douglas Adams novel was always considered ahead of its time. But now a new day has dawned on the story with this motion picture version that Douglas was intimately involved in creating prior to his tragic early death of a heart attack. It all begins with Arthur Dent (Martin Freeman), a typical guy hav

Video: Trailer B

Trailer Addict — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 12:00:00 -0500

Special trailer for The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy that describes how movie trailers should be presented. Don't Panic... Stick out your thumb to join the most ordinary man in the world on an extraordinary adventure across the universe in the hilarious comedy, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. Earthman Arthur Dent is having a very bad day. His house is about to be bulldozed, he discovers that his best friend is an alien and to top things off, Planet Earth is about to be demolished to make way for a hyperspace bypass. Arthur's only chance for survival: hitch a ride on a passing spacecraft. For the novice space traveler, the greatest adventure in the universe begins when the world ends. Arthur sets out on a journey in which he finds that nothing is as it seems: he learns that a Towel is just the most useful thing in the universe, finds the meaning of life, and discovers that everything he needs to know can be found in one book: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.

Video: The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy

CinemaNow — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 12:00:00 -0500

Planet Earth is about to be demolished to make way for a hyperspace bypass leaving Arthur Dent one chance for survival: hitch a ride on a passing spacecraft.