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Leap Year

Generally unfavorable reviews
Based on 30 critic reviews
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Based on 13 votes
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Movie Info
Genre(s): Comedy | Romance
Written by:
Harry Elfont
Deborah Kaplan
Directed by: Anand Tucker
Release Date:
Theatrical: January 8, 2010
Running Time: minutes, Color
Origin: USA | Ireland
Language(s): English
Summary
RATING: PG for sensuality and language
Starring Amy Adams, Matthew Goode, Adam Scott, and John Lithgow
When their four-year anniversary passes without a marriage proposal, Anna decides to take matters into her own hands. Investing in an Irish tradition that allows women to propose to men on February 29th, Anna decides to follow her boyfriend Jeremy to Dublin and get down on one knee herself. But airplanes, weather and fate leave Anna stranded on the other side of Ireland, and she must enlist the help of handsome and surly Declan to get her across the country. As Anna and Declan bicker across the Emerald Isle, they discover that the road to love can take you to very unexpected places. (Universal Pictures)
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What The Critics Said
All critic scores are converted to a 100-point scale. If a critic does not indicate a score, we assign a score based on the general impression given by the text of the review. Learn more...
Chicago Sun-Times Roger Ebert
This is a full-bore, PG-rated, sweet rom-com. It sticks to the track, makes all the scheduled stops and bears us triumphantly to the station. And it is populated by colorful characters, but then, when was the last time you saw a boring Irishman in a movie?
Read Full Review >New Orleans Times-Picayune Mike Scott
Fortunately, there's enough charisma in those doe eyes -- to narrowly rescue the featherweight Leap Year from becoming a full-blown case of Erin-go-blah.
Read Full Review >Christian Science Monitor Peter Rainer
Amy Adams is such a likable actress that she makes the romantic comedy Leap Year worth watching even though we’ve seen it all before.
Read Full Review >Orlando Sentinel Roger Moore
The "Made of Honor" screenwriters don't deliver enough jokes or feisty exchanges between the ill-matched traveling companions.
Read Full Review >San Francisco Chronicle Mick LaSalle
Virtually every word and plot turn is insincere, manufactured, unfelt and dishonest, and its portrayal of people demonstrates either an ignorance of human behavior or a disdain for truth.
Read Full Review >St. Louis Post-Dispatch Calvin Wilson
In Hollywood, it’s all about the concept, and some studio executive must have thought it would be fun to watch Adams slogging around in the Irish mud. Unfortunately, there’s no accounting for taste.
Read Full Review >Arizona Republic Bill Goodykoontz
A by-the-numbers romantic comedy as predictable as it is cloying.
Read Full Review >ReelViews James Berardinelli
We believe the dislike at the onset but not the romance at the payoff. And that's a major flaw.
Read Full Review >Chicago Reader Cliff Doerksen
As modern rom-coms go, this is trite but relatively painless.
Read Full Review >Philadelphia Inquirer Carrie Rickey
Usually Amy Adams can work all kinds of magic with her wide-eyed gaze and wistful smile. But these attributes aren't assets here, they are distancing devices.
Read Full Review >USA Today Claudia Puig
Where it should be light and graceful, Leap Year trips and thuds.
Read Full Review >The Onion (A.V. Club) Nathan Rabin
There isn’t a spontaneous or unpredictable moment in this loving, perversely reverent homage to rom-com, road-movie, and mismatched-romance conventions.
Read Full Review >Village Voice Brian Miller
Leap Year belongs to the Prada backlash subgenre of women's pictures--epitomized by "The Proposal"--in which smart, stylish women must be muddied, abased, ridiculed, and degraded in order to get their man.
Read Full Review >Variety Dennis Harvey
Pleasant enough overall, if also somewhat gratingly old-fashioned.
Read Full Review >The Hollywood Reporter Michael Rechtshaffen
An uneven romantic comedy that feels as fresh as a hunk of week-old soda bread.
Read Full Review >Boxoffice Magazine Mark Keizer
Nobody here brings their A-game, denying us the pleasure of what Adams and director Anand Tucker could create together.
Read Full Review >New York Post Lou Lumenick
Rent "Enchanted" with Adams, and watch Goode as Colin Firth's boyfriend in his other current movie, "A Single Man."
Read Full Review >Boston Globe Wesley Morris
It’s unclear what Amy Adams did to deserve Leap Year, but all that’s missing from the movie is a set of jailhouse bars over her scenes.
Read Full Review >Chicago Tribune Michael Phillips
The scenery's nice. But once you've said the scenery's nice, you're no longer talking about a movie worth talking about.
Read Full Review >Salon.com Stephanie Zacharek
If only Leap Year were an anomaly, the kind of picture that comes along only once every four years. Instead, it's yet more evidence that romantic comedies are only getting worse.
Read Full Review >The Globe and Mail (Toronto) Liam Lacey
At least Adams and Goode are always watchable, even when you occasionally feel embarrassed for them.
Read Full Review >Miami Herald Connie Ogle
Rich in cliché and brimming with the sort of potent idiocy that can only be found in January-release romantic comedies, Leap Year manages to do every possible thing wrong.
Read Full Review >New York Daily News Elizabeth Weitzman
On the plus side, the Irish landscape is gorgeous, and Scott and John Lithgow are amusing in small roles. But Goode barely makes an effort, so Adams' frantic exertions feel especially disheartening
Read Full Review >Time Out New York Aaron Hillis
Why, pray tell, do we not get a four-year break between generic, charmless and sexist rom-coms like this on our side of the pond?
Read Full Review >Empire Anna Smith
Rubbish. Irish eyes will be hard pressed to grimace, let alone smile.
Read Full Review >Washington Post Staff (Not credited)
A retread of just about every rom-com cliche ever turned.
Read Full Review >The New York Times A.O. Scott
What makes Leap Year so singularly dispiriting is precisely that it is bad without distinction -- so witless, charmless and unimaginative that it can be described as a movie only in a strictly technical sense.
Read Full Review >Austin Chronicle Marc Savlov
This film is unquestionably the most unromantic and downright despairing romcom since "Made of Honor" or, possibly, "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?"
Read Full Review >What Our Users Said
The average user rating for this movie is 5.2 (out of 10) based on 13 User Votes
Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.
James H gave it a6:
Unlike most guys, I like a good romantic comedy and this is ALMOST a good one. What downgrades it for me are the the many "sit-com" moments (all by the Amy Adams character). On the plus side, Amy Adams and Matthew Goode are very good in this movie and have a good chemistry, and the movie is shot in the beautiful Ireland countryside. If only there weren't all those eye-rolling sitcom moments! Still, not horrible.
Chad S gave it a5:
Boy gets girl, it's the rule of thumb in romantic comedy, which is why Marc Webb's "(500) Days of Summer" stands out: boy doesn't get girl, and boy, did this genre abberation hurt so good. Hollywood should take note of this absolutely winning indie, and consider incorporating the unhappy ending, every so often, to help revive this ailing genre, made moribund by its utter predictability. Far from being the nadir of the bunch(that honor goes to "The Ugly Truth"), the worst label you could slap on "Leap Year" is that it's "bland". As Anna(Amy Adams) and Declan(Matthew Goode) go through the motions of courtship in the same dramatic setting(Ireland) that Hillary Swank and Gerard Butler managed in "P.S. I Love You", the moviegoer may wonder: "Haven't I seen 500, or at least, 55 versions of this same film?" Conditioned by countless rom-coms where the inevitable uniting of star-crossed lovers send droves of moviegoers home, theoretically, happy; for the jaded, those obstacles which delay the simultaneous epiphany of love among lovers just before that clinching kiss, doesn't necessarily build drama, it builds tedium. To make a routine rom-com like "Leap Year" watchable again, some degree of doubt has to encroach on the moviegoer's expectations, in regard to the major studio-sanctioned screenplay. Does boy always have to get girl? In "(500) Days of Summer", The Smiths fan's life turned back into "There Is A Light That Never Goes Out" after 500 days of "You Make My Dreams", because the screenwriter gives Summer(Zooey Deschanel) the freedom to be more than a girlfriend sentenced to impending matrimony; she gets to be the boy's antagonist. In "Leap Year", Declan blows it, but Anna gives him a second chance, since genre requirements dictate that she do so.
Kathy S gave it a7:
I enjoyed it much more than I expected I would. Of course, it's a bit formulaic but it is still an entertaining romantic comedy, and the performances of the leads really elevate the material. I'd like to see more of Matthew Goode. (You may remember him from Woody Allen's "Match Point.") If you like Ireland and romantic comedies, then this one is worth seeing.
Carolyn B gave it an8:
A solid romantic comedy with good actors and great scenery. If you are a fan of romantic comedies you will like this movie. Amy Adams and Matthew Goode have great chemistry and really sell the rather lame script. Once again, the critics are way off base. I always skip what the "professionals" think of any movie and read user reviews. I would give this movie a solid B+.
Carolyn M gave it a5:
No big highs, no low lows, not very original, average acting without much chemistry between the principles. The photography in Ireland was gorgeous, so we didn't walk out.
Heather gave it an8:
Critics must be very jaded not to like this movie. Amy Adams and Matthew Goode do a great job in their roles. Perfect romantic movie!!
Nora V. gave it a2:
Really boring, what a waste of money, the only thing I enjoyed was the popcorn.
