>According to this review, it's really, really bad
>http://planetmagrathea.com/shortreview.html
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>>http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/4463797.stm
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>>Movie version. Looks interesting; I heard a lot about the books, but I wasn't able to get hold of a copy yet.

Yep. I blogged on this http://www.bloglines.com/blog/AlexFeldstein?id=351 when the info came out.
In most cases the book is so much better than the movie.