Marvin the Paranoid Android. Name[edit] Marvin does not actually display signs of paranoia, though Zaphod refers to him as "the Paranoid Android.
"[4] Nor does he show any signs of mania, though Ford refers to him as a "maniacally depressed robot. " He remains consistently morose throughout. In fact, he exhibits remarkable stoicism, being willing to wait hundreds of billions of years for his employers. Radio and TV series[edit] According to his autobiography read in the Secondary Phase of the radio series, Marvin was constructed much against his own wishes by the Sirius Cybernetics Corporation to prototype human personality artificial intelligence. The cutaway illustration of Marvin made by Kevin J. When the Heart of Gold crew arrive on the ancient planet of Magrathea, they abandon Marvin on the surface. According to Marvin, "The first ten million years were the worst, and the second ten million years, they were the worst too. Novel series[edit] Film[edit] 2005 film version Songs[edit] Cover of Marvin single "Marvin"[edit]
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So long, and thanks for all the fish! It is such a bizarrely improbable coincidence that anything so mindboggingly useful could have evolved purely by chance that some thinkers have chosen to see it as the final and clinching proof of the non-existence of God. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy has this to say on the subject of love: Avoid, if at all possible. Listen, if you're gonna survive out here, you've gotta know...where your towel is. [first lines in the movie] It's an important and popular fact that things are not always what they seem. Workers of the Earth...I bring good tidings of peanuts...and BEER! If there's anything around here more important than my ego, I want it caught and shot now! If there's anything more important than my ego on this ship, I want it caught and shot right now. So much for the laws of physics.Buttons aren't toys! Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy Movie Trailer. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Movie Reviews.
All Critics (205) | Top Critics (40) | Fresh (117) | Rotten (77) | DVD (53) The problem is not that the film debases the book but that movies themselves are too capacious a home for such comedy, with its tea-steeped English musings and its love of bitty, tangential gags.
May 2, 2005 [It has] visual goofiness and flights of thespian bravura. [The movie] captures the quizzical, quasi-spiritual nature of [Adams'] book and manages to nail a surprising number of his dry little jokes, even some that you think could work only on the page. Although Hitchhiker starts out a total gas, it doesn't have enough fuel to sustain the ride, ultimately amounting to little more than some amusing gags strung together in search of a story. Galaxy is good enough to keep you rooting for it, but the mode of transport needs fresher points and plugs.
While it won't win any awards, it's fun as a time killer. It's hard to dislike a movie in which one of the heroes gets brain power from lemon juice. September 25, 2006. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (2005. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (film) Adams, who co-wrote the film's screenplay, died in 2001, before production began.
The film is dedicated to him. Zaphod explains that he is seeking the planet Magrathea, where he believes he can discover the Question of Life, the Universe, and Everything to match with the answer "42" given by the supercomputer Deep Thought. Zaphod stole the Heart of Gold to use its improbability drive to get to Magrathea through trial and error. During one of these attempts, they end up on the planet Viltvodle VI.
Zaphod decides to visit Humma Kavula, his opponent from the election. The Heart of Gold is chased by the Vogons, led by Galactic Vice-President Questular Rontok, who is attempting to rescue Zaphod from himself. On the planet, Zaphod, Ford, and Trillian take a portal to Deep Thought. As the crew regroup outside the house they are surrounded by Vogons and take shelter in a caravan as the Vogons open fire.