Who doesn’t love a good time loop movie/episode? Especially a crude (at times) time loop + romantic comedy.

Nyles: I guess you followed me. It’s one of those infinite time loop situations you might have heard about.

Sarah: That I might have heard about?

Nyles: Yeah.

I think that’s pretty much the best part about the movie: there is more than one person trapped in and aware of the loop and Nyles at least is perfectly genre aware. He’s seen the time loop movies and knows how screwed up they can be.

Plotwise, it’s stock standard time loop + comedy + a touch of romance. For the time loop they go through all the stages: figure out what’s going on, not believe it, trying to kill themselves, enjoying themselves, giving up, and finally pushing through to get out. For the comedy, there are bits of adult oriented humor, various absurd situations played for laughs. For the romance, there’s the meet cute, the falling for each other, the betrayal, and the final reconciliation. There’s nothing new under the sun, at least not in these particular genres, but I think they did a good job combining it all.

Castwise, Andy Samberg is Andy Samberg. If you like his sort of humor, you’ll like him in this movie. Cristin Milioti does a great job as costar/costuck-in-time love interest, and J.K. Simmons absolutely shines as Roy a grumpy old man also stuck in the time loop . Is there anything he doesn’t shine in? Having only otherwise seen Tyler Hoechlin as Superman in Supergirl was … distracting. But he’s got a relatively small part.

Overall, it’s a fun movie. There’s nothing deep here and it doesn’t quite rise to the rewatchable classic status of Groundhog Day, but I’m glad I watched it. For that, it ends up about in the middle of the year.

Ranked: 2021 Movie Reviews

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1. The Nightmare Before Christmas
2. Avengers: Endgame
3. Avengers: Infinity War
4. The Matrix Resurrections
5. Captain America: Civil War
6. Captain America: The Winter Soldier
7. Spider-Man: Far From Home
8. Thor: Ragnarok
9. Captain America: The First Avenger
10. Spider-Man: Homecoming
11. Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings
12. The Suicide Squad
13. Moana
14. Black Panther
15. Iron Man
16. Guardians of the Galaxy
17. Finding Nemo
18. Ant-Man
19. Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi
20. Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back
21. The Greatest Showman
22. Captain Marvel
23. Ant-Man and the Wasp
24. Doctor Strange
25. Black Widow
26. Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope
27. One Hundred and One Dalmatians
28. Luca
29. Palm Springs
30. Knives Out
31. Shazam!
32. Tenet
33. The Rescuers Down Under
34. Iron Man 3
35. The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh
36. A Clockwork Orange
37. Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace
38. Godzilla vs Kong
39. Stargate: Continuum
40. Iron Man 2
41. Thor
42. Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith
43. Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2
44. Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones
45. Avengers: Age of Ultron
46. The Incredible Hulk
47. Thor: The Dark World
48. Stargate: The Ark of Truth
49. Nutcracker
50. Space Jam: A New Legacy
51. Mortal Kombat
52. Bambi

Who doesn’t love a good time loop movie/episode? Especially a crude (at times) time loop + romantic comedy.

Nyles: I guess you followed me. It’s one of those infinite time loop situations you might have heard about.

Sarah: That I might have heard about?

Nyles: Yeah.

I think that’s pretty much the best part about the movie: there is more than one person trapped in and aware of the loop and Nyles at least is perfectly genre aware. He’s seen the time loop movies and knows how screwed up they can be.

Plotwise, it’s stock standard time loop + comedy + a touch of romance. For the time loop they go through all the stages: figure out what’s going on, not believe it, trying to kill themselves, enjoying themselves, giving up, and finally pushing through to get out. For the comedy, there are bits of adult oriented humor, various absurd situations played for laughs. For the romance, there’s the meet cute, the falling for each other, the betrayal, and the final reconciliation. There’s nothing new under the sun, at least not in these particular genres, but I think they did a good job combining it all.

Castwise, Andy Samberg is Andy Samberg. If you like his sort of humor, you’ll like him in this movie. Cristin Milioti does a great job as costar/costuck-in-time love interest, and J.K. Simmons absolutely shines as Roy a grumpy old man also stuck in the time loop . Is there anything he doesn’t shine in? Having only otherwise seen Tyler Hoechlin as Superman in Supergirl was … distracting. But he’s got a relatively small part.

Overall, it’s a fun movie. There’s nothing deep here and it doesn’t quite rise to the rewatchable classic status of Groundhog Day, but I’m glad I watched it. For that, it ends up about in the middle of the year.