First in a trio of fantasy movies

Rating: 9/10 (29 October 2002)

Harold Ramis has an offbeat and upbeat taste for science fiction and flights of fancy, as his earnest performance in Ghostbusters would have us believe. And he reinforces this vision in Groundhog Day, the beginning of a triptych of lighthearted fantasy films (the other two are Multiplicity and Bedazzled). Their intelligent directing and writing will make you feel at the same time a little happier, and a little smarter, by movie's end.