Leap Year a disappointment
Leap Year (2010)
A disappointing start to movies of this year, Leap Year failed to touch me in ways other great romantic comedies have. Opening with Anna (Amy Adams), a stuck-up successful young woman applying to live in a prestigious building with her equally stuck-up, high maintenance boyfriend Jeremy (Adam Scott), the two are taking the big step to move in together. Later, Anna's friend hints to her that Jeremy left a jewelry store with a little box that could only be one thing - an engagement ring. Thinking she has everything going for her, Anna is expecting Jeremy to pop the question over a candle lit dinner right before he departs to Dublin for business, unfortunately she's disappointed when he gives her a pair of diamond earrings.
After the let-down Anna decides that the Irish leap year tradition, which states that a girl can propose on the 29th of February, might be her way to get what she wants. The whole story follows Anna on this adventure to Dublin to find her boyfriend and propose. Unluckily, the plane she boarded from America had to make an emergency landing outside of Dublin and Anna struggles to get there by the 29th. Declan (Matthew Goode) the owner of the inn where Anna finds herself stranded agrees to help her on this journey. Indeed there are very romantic scenes in the film but the story is too much of a stretch. To view this girl on such a sure mission to propose to her long-term boyfriend so heavily thrown off emotionally over a couple days with another man is far-fetched.
Director Anand Tucker definitely had the perfect setting for a romance. Full of beautiful visuals and incredibly romantic settings it just seemed the whole story was too unrealistic. I didn't believe the feelings between Anna (Adams) and Declan (Goode), it all happened too quickly and unnaturally.
The chemistry between Adams and Goode is humorous as they are so different in character. The idea of “opposites attract” is very evident, but Goode was definitely the highlight of the movie with his witty remarks and charming persona.
In the end it is a toss up for what Anna will do. She went through the worst just to get to Jeremy and really loves him but found a new and different love along the way. I would advise you to wait until it is out for rental; the only thing setting it apart from any other average romantic comedy is that it's set in Ireland.
A disappointing start to movies of this year, Leap Year failed to touch me in ways other great romantic comedies have. Opening with Anna (Amy Adams), a stuck-up successful young woman applying to live in a prestigious building with her equally stuck-up, high maintenance boyfriend Jeremy (Adam Scott), the two are taking the big step to move in together. Later, Anna's friend hints to her that Jeremy left a jewelry store with a little box that could only be one thing - an engagement ring. Thinking she has everything going for her, Anna is expecting Jeremy to pop the question over a candle lit dinner right before he departs to Dublin for business, unfortunately she's disappointed when he gives her a pair of diamond earrings.
After the let-down Anna decides that the Irish leap year tradition, which states that a girl can propose on the 29th of February, might be her way to get what she wants. The whole story follows Anna on this adventure to Dublin to find her boyfriend and propose. Unluckily, the plane she boarded from America had to make an emergency landing outside of Dublin and Anna struggles to get there by the 29th. Declan (Matthew Goode) the owner of the inn where Anna finds herself stranded agrees to help her on this journey. Indeed there are very romantic scenes in the film but the story is too much of a stretch. To view this girl on such a sure mission to propose to her long-term boyfriend so heavily thrown off emotionally over a couple days with another man is far-fetched.
Director Anand Tucker definitely had the perfect setting for a romance. Full of beautiful visuals and incredibly romantic settings it just seemed the whole story was too unrealistic. I didn't believe the feelings between Anna (Adams) and Declan (Goode), it all happened too quickly and unnaturally.
The chemistry between Adams and Goode is humorous as they are so different in character. The idea of “opposites attract” is very evident, but Goode was definitely the highlight of the movie with his witty remarks and charming persona.
In the end it is a toss up for what Anna will do. She went through the worst just to get to Jeremy and really loves him but found a new and different love along the way. I would advise you to wait until it is out for rental; the only thing setting it apart from any other average romantic comedy is that it's set in Ireland.
