Perhaps not the best movie for younger people.

Rating: 8/10 (22 January 2005)

The first time I saw this movie (more than 10 years ago) I didn't really like it all that much. Of course I was a lot younger then (I'm 26 now), didn't have the same taste for movies that I have now and probably didn't understand everything as well as I do now. The cynical humor, the seemingly endless repetition of almost every detail... I probably wasn't ready for it then, but I sure was now and I loved every part of it.
Phil Connors, a cynical weatherman, is sent to a small town (don't make me say the actual name because I would probably get my tongue into a nod) to cover a story about a weather forecasting groundhog or 'rat' as he calls it. When the job is finished he wants to get out of the town as quickly as possible, but a snow storm (which he didn't even predict right) forces them to stay one more day. The next day he wakes up and finds out that it's Groundhog Day again. The same for the next day, and the next day, and the next... And every time he wakes up and starts his day with that annoying song from Sonny and Cher combined with the even more annoying voices of the deejays.
This really was an hilarious movie like we don't get enough these days. The humor was right, the acting and the story were very good. This movie really worked. Still, I wouldn't recommend it to younger viewers, not because of some explicit content, but just because I guess that they will not be able to fully appreciate the movie (just like me). Anyway, I reward this movie with an 8/10, perhaps even an 8.5/10