Paradise becomes a sun-soaked Hell, a place endured and never escaped, where pizza pool floats are enervating torture devices and crippling alcoholism is a boon instead of a disease. Now imagine that “over and over” extends beyond a number the human mind is capable of appreciating. © 2023 NYP Holdings, Inc.Imagine living the same day of your life over and over, stuck within an hour and a half of Los Angeles but so closely nestled in paradise’s bosom that the drive isn’t worth the fuel. It’s easy to see why Hulu and Neon dropped all that cash on it. “Palm Springs,” which premiered at Sundance this year, was the highest seller in the film festival’s history at $17.5 million. You will cherish the 65-year-old Oscar winner’s interpretation of being high on coke. He pops up occasionally to hunt Nyles with a bow and arrow or a shotgun to seek revenge. Simmons as a gruff wedding guest named Roy, who got trapped in the time-loop earlier after a misguided cocaine binge with Nyles. Her character’s resolution is too tidy - a science-fiction version of an old-school sports montage - but it fits in fine with director Max Barbakow’s silly style. He sure sparks with the subdued Milioti, 34, who brings approachable darkness to the unreliable, emotionally bereft woman who drinks like a beluga. Andy Samberg lives up to the title of “Palm Springs.” Hulu/Everett Collection Today, however, he’s perfect for this lovable indie, having relaxed and grown into an appealing lead. Back then, you could only take his juvenile antics for a few minutes. “Palm Springs” - streaming July 10 on Hulu - also answers the all-important question, “What would happen if Andy Samberg was trapped at a wedding for all eternity?” Man up, is what.ĭuring the “Brooklyn Nine-Nine” star’s days on “Saturday Night Live,” Samberg, 41, was a Peter Pan with a pot dealer - talented, but overblown, and especially known for satiric music videos. Nobody sucks, and it’s about quantum physics rather than godly intervention. True, this millennial-driven laugher would not exist had Harold Ramis’ classic not come before it, however screenwriter Andy Siara’s zany script is refreshingly absent of its hard moral shell and Scroogey turnaround. The premise is a lot like “Groundhog Day.” Cristin Milioti and Andy Samberg chill out in “Palm Springs.” Hulu/Everett Collection Nyles has been inside so long, he can’t remember what his job was, and he optimistically thinks of his hopeless circumstance as a mischievous retirement. The time-loop vet explains that anyone who walks into the light is forced to experience the same 24 hours ad infinitum. “What did you do to me?!” Sarah screams at the Hawaiian shirt-clad Nyles, who’s lounging on a pizza float in the hotel pool. Yes, the poor man and woman are doomed to forever endure what is, for many, one of life’s most hellish punishments: another couple’s nuptials. The lush follows the smooth-talker, against his wishes, into a cave emanating a bright orange light, and then wakes up back in bed. Sarah, a constant screw-up, meets laid-back Nyles at her little sister’s California wedding ceremony, and ends up scurrying away with him to a sandy nook for some nookie. I know what you’re thinking - that these punks are mocking Punxsutawney Phil and Bill Murray - and we’ll get to that, woodchuck-chuckers. Not the “Rocky Horror” line dance, although there is some dancing their characters Nyles ( Samberg) and Sarah ( Milioti), are stuck in the unenviable sci-fi scenario of repeating the same day over and over. In the Hulu comedy “Palm Springs,” Andy Samberg and Cristin Milioti do the time warp again. Rated R (sexual content, language throughout, drug use and some violence).
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