1993: Original GROUNDHOG DAY Review | Film 93 | Classic Movie Review | BBC Archive
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- Barry Norman reviews the time loop comedy Groundhog Day. Is this Bill Murray vehicle a bonafide romantic comedy classic, or have we seen it all before?
Originally broadcast 3 May, 1993.
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I've been watching this same review, every day...for almost 30 years!
Saw an excellent article in which the reviewer gave their take on what Groundhog Day was really about. In essence, Punatawney was Purgatory and Phil was imprisoned there until he expiated his past sins. At the end of the film his soul is put up for 'auction' and is bought by Rita - an angel in human form! Interesting take.
Interesting where they decide to live.
Old reviews are as subtle as a brick to your head. Love it.
Met Barry Norman once. A gentleman. Like Morecambe & Wise, he was part of the golden age of the Beeb
Sir Barry. The one review I remember of his was for Anaconda, where he showed us Jon Voight leering at Jennifer Lopez and called it a "king leer". Classic Bazza.
🤣🤣
Yes… I remember he showed the clip twice!
Yes...i so remember that review..that leer..priceless!!
A review that has massive spoiler alerts everywhere
You mean "had".....shirley? How else can a review be made?
I was just thinking the same thing. Not so much a review as it is a summation of the entire movie!
People didn't get so triggered by spoilers back then.
@@malahammer he did mean had, and don't call me Shirley
Honestly, you can glean as much from the trailer.
“A dry wit, which leads me nicely on to the next film, which in a sense it what it’s for” classic Barry Norman delivery.😁
"And why not."
Can’t beat a movie review that tells you the complete plot of an upcoming movie
It's ok, back in 93 film would have already been out for a year in America, everyone would have seen in on a shaky pirate VHS and read the novelisation.
When I write film criticism, I absolutely hate summarizing plots. I think it means I'm not meant to be a film critic
Stephen Tobolowsky is amazing in this - he was unrecognisable as the bad guy in Bird on a Wire…
He's also the head of the kkk in Mississipi Burning, and the principal in The Goldbergs - the guy's got range! Great actor
I miss this fella
😲 He actually used to tell us the whole plot?!! No recollection of that at all.
Ikr!? Would NOT fly nowerdays
@@slartibartfast7921 It would definitely not, fellow hitcher. 🤨
@@fredfredrickson5436 😁
No because trailers have them instead now you watch a trailer you don't have to see the film 🤬
This is exactly what I remember about Barry's reviews , always full of film ruining spoilers.
Little did Barry know that it would enter the language for ever afterwards.
Great review Baz. RIP
if you dont know sony kind of made a sequel to this movie but it was a virtual reality game following phil connor's son called like father like son i kind of liked it.
The thing is, pretty much all video games are like Groundhog Day.
I miss Barry Norman and his film reviews. I remember these programmes so well.
Wow. These days he'd get a thousand complaints for spoilers.
Back then if a reviewer really liked a movie they'd give a very vague premise and say "I don't want to ruin the rest for you" but if they didn't care for it they'd spoil the whole thing with a complete overview of the movie. But in this one, he seems to like the movie but manages to spoil the big parts anyway. Still a good movie though.
@@JustWasted3HoursHere he does in all the clips on this channel, except sometimes for a finale sequence’s exact details. I hadn’t realised quite how vague we’ve gotten today! Even churned-out promo fluff in the early 00s would often casually mention some big final setpiece and show a clip from it.
@@kaitlyn__L Speaking of revealing details, some cultures don't place a big importance on spoilers. For example, when The Empire Strikes Back first came out, the poster for the movie in South Korea (I believe it was) actually says "He's Luke Skywalker's father!". Can you imagine?
@@JustWasted3HoursHere SPOILERS!!!!
I still haven't seen Groundhog Day yet, so this is actually a new review to me in 2023. I have a lot of catching up to do! Love Barry Norman, God bless him.
Once you do, you'll have to watch it again, and again, and again, and again (repeat to fade).
@@8bitgamerC64 LOL 😄
Great great film..... I need to check it out again it's been a year or two between viewings
I've watched this film several times and this is still a spoiler for me
I watch this every day
Baz Normal, a part of my childhood, sound guy.
Damn Michael Fish getting destroyed up in here poor guy
Oh I say - Harold Rarmis 😆
It was Dan Aykroyd in the Ghostbusters review.
Did he like it or not? The film was amazing and still is but he made sound only so so
And very nice it is too, the rather successful sequel to and very nice it is.
Michael "Hurricane" Fish. Brilliant!!!🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
0:39 Obnoxious? Funny how words lose their power over time, and I'm talking about hundreds of years, not since 1993!
Aaaaaaaaaaand, why not?!
Anthological underrating of a comedic master-piece.
Way too many spoilers in this review.
He would be fired on his first day now, horrible reviews and spoilers.
spoilers!
I don't think it's a review, I believe it's called spoileeeeeeer
A review should mention how the acting, how the sound effect, how's the story, is it too fast is it boring, is it exciting. I don't know how many times I watch this movie, I just love it :-)
none of us were karens back then.
Of course it's a proper review. The plot is only summarised (and evaluated), not explained. Back then, film reviews on the BBC assumed you wanted some information about the movie, and not just whether it sucked or it shone.
Way to spoil the movie for me, Barry.
It's called a review and none of us were karens back then.
@@malahammer What's a "Karen" is that like an SJW?
@@andyjohnson4907 I guess it’s kind of the opposite? It’s, in its most literal form, “the woman who always demands to speak to the manager over nothing”. But of course sometimes people intend more complex variations and it can be impossible to tell exactly what they mean
@@kaitlyn__L Aah, I see. Like the Mandela Effect.