It's a cool poster, therefore it would be a cool movie, right? WRONG!
The movie introduces the main character Arthur Dent who wakes up one normal day and realizes that his house is about to be torn down to make way for new road construction. There's no three week warning or money for the inconvenience. Nope, just get out and leave. Well Authur's best friend, Ford Perfect, takes him out to eat to "relax the nerves". I guess that includes telling Arthur that he is actually an alien from outerspace. He is writing a book called "The Hitchikers Guide to the Galaxy", and that the Earth is going to be destroyed today to make way for new galatic road construction. (I bet Arthur was feeling selfish now). Suddenly a spaceship appears and BOOM! bye bye Earth.... That's it. Millions of lives gone, but it's ok because Arthur and Ford did what Ford knew best, they hitch-hiked on a passing spaceship.
Well, Arthur is now probably the luckiest man on Earth... oh wait... (Too soon). Anyway, like every hitchhiker, they are caught and thrown out into the deep, cold, vacuum of space. Fortunately, they are found and rescued by yet another passing spaceship (they must have sold tickets to see the firework show... oh, still too soon?). Ironically, this spaceship happened to have Ford's "semi-half brother", who also happens to be the President of the Galaxy ( who also stole the ship... but I guess it's ok if it's the President of the Galaxy.) On board, Arthur befriends a paranoid robot named Marvin and falls in love with this random woman who also survived earth... No one knows how or why but at least she's alive.
The President of the Galaxy tells Arthur that they are looking for a special planet named, Magrathea, which holds the answers to the "Question of life, the Universe, and Everything."(Shouldn't the President of the Galaxy know where every planet is?) Apparently the spaceship that he stole has a computer called "Deep Thought" who gave him the number 42(yeah, that's a really deep thought.), which started there journey. On their quest, they made a pit stop on the planet of the President's arch rival from the past galatic-election, Humma Kavula, who happens to know the coordinates of Magrathea . However Humma demands the "Point-of-View" gun which can make the target understand the shooters point of view. (I need one of those.)
Basically, after some fighting, flying, re-elections, sperm whales, and petunias, the group finds Magrathea and learns that the answer to their ultimate question about life, love, and good movie making was hidden inside of... wait for it.... the Earth. You would think all hope is lost now, right? Think again because, as luck would have it, they are already in production of Earth Mark II. After a tour of the new Earth, the people of Magrathea take Arthur home and he kills some really smart (and creepy) mice that want his brain for study purposes. Arthur also comes to find out that the President of the Galaxy signed for the destruction of Earth thinking it was an autograh signing (seriously, who voted for this guy??). After a couple of shots from the Point-of-View gun everybody lives happily ever after having lunch at "the Restuarant at the End of the Universe." The end. There is no after the credits ending for this movie.



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