The Question to the Ultimate Answer

What? I don't know what it is!

But I am (like I'm sure many nerds around the galaxy are) getting very excited about the upcoming movie The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy due to the launch of the official trailer today on Amazon.com.
(Thanks to Toria for pointing this out)

It's a must see... some time in the past hour it changed from Flash to WMV format which is a relief because, well, encoding a movie in flash is generally a bad idea.
Here it is.
I'm not even going to bother with a low-bandwidth link, the hi-bandwidth is teensy enough.

Watch the trailer before reading on...

But it looks fantastic. Looks like Zaphod does after all have two heads (in a somewhat limited capacity.) Some interesting points though:

• We knew Ford was American. I didn't realise Zaphod and Trillian were also American. The only bloomin' person who's British is Arthur, innit, innit? Well, Ford and Zaphod I can understand. They're aliens. But Trillian is from London. Oh well they do look like good actors, and they look a lot of fun.
  
• Gah stupid trailers, always have to have American voice-overs dont they?
  
• For all the showcasing of the phrase "DON'T PANIC", if you pause on the shot where the Guide is opened, it doesn't seem to actually have the writing on there. I thought the words "DON'T PANIC" were supposed to appear when the Guide is activated.
  
• "It's the guide. It's got everything you need to know to survive in the universe." Umm, isn't it the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy?
  
• What's with the Men In Black music at the end? lol.
  
• Did u catch the stars arranged in the shape of "42" in the top left corner when u see the main logo?
  
• Looks like the date's been advanced from May 5 to April 29. Well thats good. I can't help but notice... May 5 was a Thursday, April 29 is a Friday. (hehh)
  

Yay!
Incidentally I just finished reading the fifth book last night. Despite what some people have told me, I thought the ending was quite good. It'd have to be wierd or it wouldn't be HHG.

Oh and, does anyone know how Arthur was able to communicate with all the aliens in the fifth book? He took the Babel fish out of his ear at the beginning of the fourth!

Oh and by the way: Leetness!!!!!! (At time of writing, we're 469th in Lordaeron!)

"(Arthur) had just read an entire book in which the main character had, over the course of a week, done some work in his garden, played a great deal of netball, helped mend a road, fathered a child on his wife and then unexpectedly died of thirst just before the last chapter. In exasperation Arthur had combed his way back through the book and in the end had found a passing reference to some problem with the plumbing in Chapter 2. And that was it. So the guy dies. It just happens.

"It wasn't even the climax of the book, because there wasn't one. The character died about a third of the way through the penultimate chapter of the book, and the rest of it was just more stuff about road-mending. The book just finished dead at the one hundred thousandth word, because that was how long books were on Bartledan."
- Douglas Adams: Mostly Harmless