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WHAT IT S ABOUT:
Niles (Andy Samberg) has been living the same day over and over. He gets up. Sometimes has sex with his girlfriend that he knows is cheating on him. He usually goes to the wedding that he is in Palm Springs to attend. Sometimes he has to survive the latest attack from Roy (JK Simmons), the only other person caught in the same time loop. Occasionally, he even travels far out of Palm Springs. The days always end the same way, with him waking up in the same bed, at the same place, on the same day. When Sarah (Cristin Milioti), the bride s dysfunctional sister, unintentionally gets caught in the same time loop, nothing will ever be the same for Niles, Sarah or Roy ever again.
Movie Review: Palm Springs is quirky comedy with Groundhog Day premise
Siskiyou Daily News
“Palm Springs” is a strange, quirky and raunchy comedy that takes a familiar concept and makes it its own.
It takes the basic plot of the Bill Murray classic “Groundhog Day,” where a day is repeated over and over again for infinity for a person, or in this case persons, but adds its own unique sensibilities to the genre. Palm Springs,” which is well directed by Max Barbakow, is elevated by standout performances by Andy Samberg and Cristin Milioti as two people who are trapped for what appears to be – for all eternity – stuck each day on Nov. 9 at a wedding.
What are most rom-coms missing? Existential dread. Andy Samberg and Cristin Milioti deliver that with the laughs in ‘Palm Springs.’
For editor Matt Friedman (“The Farewell”), the challenge was structuring a story that features soul-crushing repetition without inflicting soul-crushing repetition on the audience. His tack was to flesh out the details beyond the screenplay.
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“My style as an editor is to talk about the mechanics and the minutiae of everything,” Friedman says. “I don’t understand how I can tell a story if I don’t understand it explicitly, even if it’s something that isn’t necessarily going to be told to the audience.”
Palm Springs
By Jessica MasonDec 22nd, 2020, 2:26 pm
No one really came into 2020 with high expectations. The last half-decade had been rough, what with the Trump of it all, the climate change, the global uncertainty, systemic racism, sexual assault reckoning and, I don’t know, that weird
Transformers movie with King Arthur in it, we were already tired and broken. Even so, no one expected this year to be this bad. No one expected … this.
In that way, we went into 2020 feeling a lot like Sarah (Cristin Milioti) in the movie
Palm Springs when she headed to her sister’s wedding. We weren’t doing great before we got trapped in an endless, disconcerting time loop from which there seems to be no escape, but we couldn’t have guessed how weird things would get.