A Great Watch

Rating: 8/10 (27 February 2017)

Groundhog Day is work a work of marvelous comedy. This comedy exudes from the natural inclination to be humored by the hysterical facial expressions and the unfortunate situations Phil, Bill Murray, is placed in along the ride. It uses the somewhat mind boggling circumstance that the comical Bill Murray is stuck in time, and the situations involving romanticism, death, anarchy, and other natural human desires that may not be the best in certain situations. These experiences Phil finds himself creates not only just amusement and a reason to laugh, but also they make us think and feel for how we would've responded to such a phenomenon as defying space and time. Inspiring us with its progressive attitude of growth and morals, it makes us want to be better people and to mature, hopefully in a far less amount of time that repeating a single day hundreds of times. It exceeds in not just reaching those who want a good laugh, but also accomplishes speaking, through film, to those facing romantic struggles, depression, a weak will to live, and other such issues most humans experience throughout their lifetime. Though it did achieve a lot with such a small concept, related to humanities struggles, and gave us hope for a matured self, I could not reconcile the fact that Rita, Phil's love in the end (played by Andy McDowell), would settle for a man such as Phil. The movie also was vague, other than the fact that Phil had been a jerk and a prideful snob, about the reason that Phil had been sentenced to such a temporary fate as he was in Groundhog Day but it doesn't shed much light off of the great film that it is. It struts many of the great concepts of comedy that we all know and love and influences us to be better people. All in all, it is a stand-up movie that will not disappoint after a lazy night of movie-watching!