I think that's what Dave meant, Firecat. "Showing your age" can equally mean "showing your youth."

Quite fun, but they tried to get far too much into the time. They'd have done much better to cut out lots of it and leave it for a possible sequel.

Much too rushed, for that reason. The action crowded out the words. And Marvin? That's not my idea of what a paranoid android should be like (and he wasn't even an android, but a robot. Big difference.) And I didn't much like what they did with the music.

It's generally agreed that the authentic version is the one you first came across. I'm glad it was the radio original for me.

But Bill Nighy made it. He tends to do that to films that aren't quite up to the mark. God knows how.