Needless to say, Arthur is shocked to find that aliens are real, that intergalactic travel is commonplace outside the scope of human knowledge, and that everyone he has ever known or loved has been vaporized for the benefit of a space lane reserved for HOVs.
Yet Earth’s disintegration is only the beginning of Arthur’s problems, as he and Ford attempt to travel the stars with the help of a guidebook titled ” The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy. As the film comes to its bizarre and introspective conclusion, the duo interact with many wacky characters, including the president of the galaxy, who has kidnapped himself as part of an elaborate ransom plot, a seriously robot depressed voiced by the inimitable Alan Rickman, and even a pair of mice who set out to build a new Earth from scratch.