While I had planned to see it much sooner, I finally got around to it today, but not before re-reading the book in the interim and taking the quiz to make sure I had my facts straight.
In general, I thought it was good stuff. Having just finished re-reading the book yesterday, it was clear to me that they strayed from the book a bit in some key parts, clipping here and adding there (or more precisely, they threw a little bit of the second book into the story), but I think it was probably necessary for continuity and succinctness. It was already nearly two hours long as it was. Explaining in further detail as the book does in some cases would have probably exceeded audience tolerance. Even the great epic films get around to their point in not much longer a time (unlike myself).
Probably the one thing that disturbed me was the misinterpretation of the title of the next story, The Restaurant at the End of the Universe. They end the movie like the first book is ended by saying they're going to get a bite at the aforementioned restaurant, but then they stop and someone says something along the lines of "ahem, it's at the OTHER end of the universe", and the ship turns around and goes the other way.
That's all well and good, but the trouble is that the great thing about the title of the second book is NOT that it refers to "one end" of the universe vs "the other", but rather that the restaurant is TEMPORALLY located at the precise moment when the universe ENDS, so you can watch it end while you enjoy your meal.
So now you understand my very slight distress. There is no "other end" unless we are talking "alternate universes", but then we'd also be talking about a different restaurant.
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