Groundhog Day: The Drama; A Walking Cliché

Rating: 6/10 (20 March 2005)

*Spoilers* Before people pre judge my review because of my "Name", let me just say that I wanted to like this movie. I have the capacity and appreciation to like this kind of movie. Unfortunately this film couldn't make me enjoy it. First of all this movie leaves no surprises. Everything is predictable and those who were "surprised" haven't seen any movie that has intense twists and turns. Also let's count the clichés: 1. Girl Meets Poor Boy whom she falls in love with. 2. Dancing In The Street 3. Parents don't approve of poor boy cause of his background. 4. Girl Leaves boy. 5. Girl meets another rich guy who is equally charming and good looking. 6.Parents approve of rich guy. 7. Girl runs into first guy and they fall in love again. 8. Now girl has to choose between rich guy whom she loves is the "smart" choice and Poor guy whom she loves passionately and is the "right" choice. 9. Old people looking back at the past. 10. Memory Loss 11. The Ending (Im not gonna give it away just so others can see how obvious it is.) There were,however some things I did like about this movie. How anyone can not like James Garner is beyond me. The film also captures it's time setting very well and looks beautiful. And every cliché it uses it executes well and is believable. The Acting is also very good. In the end this isn't really a bad movie its just not original and in a world with cookie-cutter genres originality is the only thing saving hollywoods soul.