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I just really don't like all the straight-to-video movies MK&A do. When are they NOT on holiday in France/Rome/Britain/Australia/the Bahamas? Since Passport to Paris, all they have done is travel films, and they all follow the same formula...by the way, how come they meet a LORD? I've lived in Britain all my life, and I've never met a Lord - and I'm sure, if I did, they wouldn't be that stereotypically pompous. And Jesse Spencer? Didn't he use to be in NEIGHBOURS?????

This was made before I was born so lots of the special effects do look pretty cheesy (Zaphod's head obviously, and the sperm whale) - but I'm a hoopy frood who knows where her towel is, I can overlook this. Abolutely wonderful! This is brilliant! I only have two complaints: Trillian. TRILLIAN IS NOT MEANT TO BE A DUMB BLONDE. She is MEANT to have a degree in maths and another in astrophysics and have, and I quote, 'long waves of black hair'. And: why did they leave out the Nutri-Matic Machine????? I love that machine! But they did show Arthur drinking the substance that was almost, but not entirely unlike tea (and grimacing appropriately). I thought it might have a bad ending, but it was a surprisingly good one, with Arthur and Ford walking off discussing a planet used in a game of snooker that got sucked into a black hole. And the Paranoid Android rocks! Ultimate Question: How many reviews will there be once I post this? Answer: 42.

This was quite good. Some people have commented on the music choice. I really love We Will Rock You, but the dances got a little too modern. Nobody important would have dared to dance like that. Heath Ledger is really cute, especially when he cuts his hair, but Jocelyn spoils it all. She's really ugly, and sets it off with mustard-coloured dresses and red-and-green dyed hair that makes her head look like a pineapple. I still think William should have taken off with the blacksmith Kate, who is prettier by far, doesn't demand he lose his jousts, and the actress is brilliant. Shanynn Sossamon is completely wooden. It's hard to believe William could fall for someone so horrible. She told him to lose his jousts, for god's sakes! I hope I never see that awful pineapple hair ever again. Oh, and Chaucer - wonderful. He rocks.