Leap Year (2010)

This is such a bad film. I just honestly wanted it to end. And I do like Amy Adams as an actress, I just hated her in this film. I don’t even know if this classifies as a comedy. There are about 3 attempts for jokes in the film, and none of them hit. I might like the film better if it was classified as just a flat-out romantic film, but I probably still wouldn’t like it. Amy Adams is cardboard in it, and it’s sad because I know she can be a great actress, like she was in Catch Me If You Can. As for the two other main characters, one of them (Adams’ character’s boyfriend) is not in the film AT ALL, he has about ten minutes of screen time, and as for the other character, the Irish man (Matthew Goode) who helps Adams’ character out, is nothing but a paper-thin stereotype. It is nothing but obvious he is not Irish. The small thread of a plot is that a woman (Amy Adams) wants her boyfriend to propose to her, but he doesn’t. She learns of this Irish tradition where on Leap Year, the woman can propose to the man. So while her boyfriend is on a business trip to Ireland, she goes to fly out to surprise him so she can propose to him. But her plane has to land miles away from where she is supposed to be, so she eventually ends up hiring a cab driver (Matthew Goode) to take her there. Most of the rest of the film plays out that way. Think Due Date or Planes, Trains, and Automobiles without the jokes and with romance. Not really that appealing, huh? Thought not. The movie just doesn’t even try. It is a lazy film made by lazy people who knew the film was going to make money. And they didn’t even cash in on a leap year! It was released in January 2010. The leap year before and after that were February 2008 and February 2012. Surely they could have waited. There’s no other purpose in the film to cash in, so why didn’t they wait so they could cash in more? So the film isn’t just lazy, it’s impatient. This is a lazy impatient film, and I know Amy Adams can do better.
2.5/10