A comedy with a brain

Rating: 10/10 (18 September 2007)

There is something deeply satisfying about a movie that takes a premise and runs with it to it's logical conclusion. How many days must have passed to change Bill Murray's character? (Trick question - the answer is "One".) The endless playing out, like variations on a theme, take us and the character far from the starting point. There are Faustian parallels here. Faust was not free until he was able to say "Stay for thou art fair",just as Groundhog day will recur until the errant weatherman realises that this day is perfect (better than that day in the Bahamas that he would have originally preferred.)And how refreshing it is not to have some glib "explanation" offered as to why this happened. See this movie, enjoy and then contemplate how much nicer a person your local TV weatherman would be if he spent an eternity in Punxsatawney.