The "Mel Brooks" comment is what made me close the page. If he thinks he's more like Mel Brooks than Python, he's not getting the point of what Douglas' work was about. Spaceballs was just awful.
Clearly the producers and writers of the last Hitchhiker's movie didn't understand that either and that's why the movie completely and utterly sucked. Though I do recall most people here didn't think it was that bad when it premiered.
Has anyone changed their minds about it? I still think it's ultra-terrible and was badly cast to boot.
Adams' Hitchhikers series are my favorite books of all time. Period.