@Richard: HHGttG was a fun movie. And it even played a lot of scenes from the book very well. It’s problem was that the writer of the screenplay HADN’T READ THE DAMN BOOKS. (until he got the contract) Seriously, Google it. It blows the mind. There was an example, right in the movie, where he used Douglas Adams’ setup to a joke, then failed to deliver the punchline, because he didn’t recognize it as the punchline!

What I like about this one, from just one viewing of the trailer…

1) Britcom. Can’t go wrong with British Comedy. Well, you can. Badly. But I’ve got a soft spot for them. So I’ll put that in the “plus” column.

2) Self-Aware Time Travel! As in, a bunch of scifi geeks, who do things like discuss the nuance of how time travel “would have to work”, thrust into a situation where they get to try it out.

Okay, it sounds lame said that way, so I’ll rephrase:

3) Most (maybe all?) time travel movies suffer from some critical flaw. Something that doesn’t *work* and breaks the movie’s internal consistency. By its premise (and I’m basing this on a couple lines of dialog in the trailer), this movie sounds like they may have make an effort to stay consistent. We shall see. Fingers crossed.

Much fun. (I hope)
— Doug