Needless to say, Arthur is shocked to see that aliens are real, intergalactic travel is commonplace outside the scope of human knowledge, and everyone he’s ever known or loved has been vaporized in favor of a convenient space HOV lane.
Still, the disintegration of Earth is just the beginning of Arthur’s problems, as he and Ford attempt to navigate the stars using a guide book handily titled The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy. As the film builds to its bizarre and introspective conclusion, the duo interact with plenty of wacky characters, including the president of the galaxy, who has kidnapped himself in a complex ransom plot, a severely depressed robot voiced by the inimitable Alan Rickman, and even a pair of mice who set out to architect a new Earth from scratch.
