Hitchhiker Guide to the Galaxy fans will admire the striking visual effects, laugh at familiar scenes and leave the theater satisfied, though a little disappointed with the left-out bits. But the inside jokes and loopy antics could throw the general population into a panic--a violation of the Guide's golden rule.
Even with an appealing Paul Bettany on the back line, Wimbledon's cross-court love match mostly fumbles along rather than running up to the net for the kill shot. (How about that for a bunch of tennis clichés?)
What a Girl Wants may make you reminisce about your own father-child relationship. It's just sitting through the rest of the teenage girlie stuff that is a little hard to take.
By:
Guylaine Cadorette
February 13, 2002 10:10am EST
While the talented cast creates a stirring and heartbreaking biopic of the late Iris Murdoch, the story is weighed down with too much gloom and despair.