Zaphod. He's just some guy you know. I love the book, the radio adaptation and the TV series but I'm afraid not the movie version of "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy". Like the curate’s egg it's good in parts but with such wonderful source material I'm struggling to see how they could drop the ball. Martin Freeman is great as Arthur and Alan Rickman as the voice of Marvin is a hoot, but Sam Rockwell as Zaphod and Mos Def's Ford never really work. It's too rushed in places, too laboured in others and the love interest between Arthur and Trillian just a sop to the studios and US audience testing. Karen's comment summed it up, and she is no mean Hitchhiker fan. "I missed Dr Who for this?"