Science Fiction & Fantasy > N Science Fiction & Fantasy > Jennings, Garth

Don't Panic

Advantages: Story, book
Disadvantages: none

...in "The answer to life, the universe and everything" Quite strange the result, right? Don't panic, read on :). BASIC INFORMATION Released by 29 April, 2005 (USA), rank in IMDB 6.6/10 Direct by Garth Jennings Based on the book of Douglas Adams, who also wrote the screenplay. Cast: Anna Chancellor as Questular Rontok Warwick Davis as Marvin Mos Def as Ford Prefect Zooey Deschanel as Trillian Su Elliot as Pub Customer (as Su Eliott) ...
...Stephen Fry as Narrator / The Guide (voice) PLOT SUMMARY Arthur Dent becomes the only survivor of human after a clearance of galaxy path construction. He is saved by his alien friend - Ford Prefect, a hitchhiker of galaxy. Ford gives Dent two things to calm him down. One is a towel with lots of nutrients in it, the other is a book named The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy with the big word in the front - Don't Panic. But what to be panic, ...

shanshuiii 24.10.2008 · Read full review
Ciao members have rated this review on average: helpful
Review of The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy (DVD)

Don't Panic

Advantages: Dares to evolve the idea at the risk of alienating older fans
Disadvantages: The humour is not everyone's cup of tea

Review of the Movie The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy is a British science fiction institution and any attempt to add to it was always going to be controversial to its fans. Translating a story that works as a novel and a television series to a feature film is inevitably going to require changes. The film treads a thin line between trying to evolve the concept by bringing it to a new audience while still remaining true to the original concept, ...
...his best friend Ford escape the destruction of the planet Earth. It's a very english tradition to route for the underdog character and Arthur is as far away from your standard american hero as you can. The humour will likely polarise audiences. For those that do enjoy it, they'll find a more light hearted and streamlined set of gags to enjoy. Every now and again we get a humorous animated section from the guide, voiced by Stephen Fry who was an excellent ...

frostbyte 04.09.2009 · Read full review
Ciao members have rated this review on average: helpful
Review of The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy (Blu-Ray)

You Look Like a Radioactive Tampon

Advantages: Great Direction and Acting
Disadvantages: Too Slow for some

Moon reminds me a lot of those big weighty Sci-fi films of the seventies where it was all about atmosphere, storyline and your imagination rather than riotous special effects and wise cracking aliens. This film is utterly beguiling, its tense but strangely relaxing, all of these is down to two men, the director Duncan Jones and the star Sam Rockwell. This is Jones' first feature film and its an incredibly impressive debut, he eschewed using his father ...
...it is a really fantastic film which is a credit to him. Starring Sam Rockwell as Sam, the only worker on an automated lunar mining complex. He has been working on his own for nearly three years and nearing the end of his term in space he feels lonely, isolated and confused....as anyone would, I imagine. With only a droid, Gerty (Voiced by Kevin Spacey) for company, Sam is alone and starts to feel a world apart from Earth, he feels he is alone but ...

paulie1975 29.12.2009 · Read full review
Ciao members have rated this review on average: very helpful
Review of Moon (DVD)

Sometimes, Ignorance is bliss

Advantages: clever thriller, good story, well acted
Disadvantages: bit depressing?

Dont misunderstand my review title, this is a cracking film. You can nearly always say that about Nicolas Cage films, but this one really is! The premise is simple. There are many disasters happening on earth, for some reason, aliens decide to warn mankind about the upcoming disasters by "whispering" them to a little girl in the 1950's. Unfortuneately, that girl does nothing with the information other than write it down on a bit of paper and allow ...
...capsule. The capsule is dug up in the current day and discovered by Nicolas Cage's character. He soon discovers the code in the series of numbers written on the page and works out that the code tells of impending disasters, when they will happen, how many will die and the location. The story continues on along this path, with a worrying fortelling of the end of days. We don't know what will happen right until the end. I wont ruin it for you either, ...

AgeUK 28.12.2009 · Read full review
Ciao members have rated this review on average: helpful
Review of Knowing (Blu-ray)

Return To Form!

Advantages: Classy return to form, set in the future! very well done!
Disadvantages: should have been an 18 to be its best!

...is I am a big Terminator fan. I loved Terminator 1 and 2. With Terminator 3, they ruined the franchise, it was rubbish on many levels. Terminator salvation is literally the saviour of the fanchise. In the same way that Casino Royale, Batman Begins and others have saved other franchises, the same has happened here. The most thrilling thing is that Terminator Salvation is the first film set in the future. During the war against the Terminators and ...
...as you'd expect from a Terminator film. Sure, Arnie wasn't in it, but perhaps that was a good thing. You can have too much of a good thing after all. Christian Bale does a very good job of being bad-ass and insipiring at the same time. The way its set in the not too distant future, featuring current human weaponry being used against the machines in a nice touch. The picture and sound on the blu ray edition is first rate and makes the scenes with ...

AgeUK 28.12.2009 · Read full review
Ciao members have rated this review on average: very helpful
Review of Terminator - Salvation (Blu-ray)