Heard about Leap Year quite a while back and missed it when it hit the screens last year sometime I guess. But the fact that it had Amy Adams in it was sufficient for me to feel really bad about missing it the first time. And therefore the HBO premiere wasn’t to be missed for certain. I knew it was just a standard Romantic Comedy and was not expecting anything better. But then Amy Adams is Amy Adams and was a sufficient driving force to be glued to the TV for the 9 pm prime time telecast. Unfortunately it was an insipid 90 odd minutes in front of the screen and turned out to be quite disappointing eventually.
There was nothing terribly wrong with Leap Year actually. It was reasonably well made but nothing that you have never seen before. The usual questions about “what would you take with you if your house was burning down and you had only 60 seconds to take whatever you wanted”. It is an old way to get across the message of true love – but in a new movie. It is a question that has dogged a whole lot of us over the ages and which most of us are familiar with the answer to as well.
Girl and guy are apparently well and truly in love. Girl i.e. Anna Brady (Amy Adams) who is in a very unique profession of getting houses ready for sale / lease and guy Jeremy (Adam Scott) who is a cardiologist. They have been seeing each other for 4 years now but the dimwit hasn’t popped the question yet. So Madam Brady is being tested for her patience for certain. She is hoping that Jeremy will pop the question tonight but instead he gives her super expensive “Ear” rings instead. Ha ha. And then after all of it, he runs off to Ireland to attend some cardiologist meet. A frustrated Anna is surfing the net and surprise surprise – there is a weird custom in Ireland that allows a girl to propose marriage to a man on the 29th February in a Leap Year. And so madam decides to pack her Louis Vuitton suitcase and takes off to Ireland but standing in her way are a huge storm that has stopped all flights and Declan O’Callaghan (Matthew Goode) a gorgeous Irish man who runs a pub and is nursing a broken heart. The rest of the story is obviously very predictable frame by frame and therefore quite boring.
Director Anand Tucker (fancy name at that) does a reasonable job with Leap Year but the story is too darn predictable for him to really make much of a difference. Having said that, he is not the hottest property in Hollywood for certain even if he builds a niche for himself in “predictable” RomComs. Amy Adams rocks as always and this time around it is the guys who provide the eye candy. This one is a chick flick in the true sense of the word and should be watched either on DVD or on HBO when u really have nothing else to do with your lives 5 on 10 from my side.
Watch the trailer at http://www.imdb.com/video/imdb/vi2052654361/
There was nothing terribly wrong with Leap Year actually. It was reasonably well made but nothing that you have never seen before. The usual questions about “what would you take with you if your house was burning down and you had only 60 seconds to take whatever you wanted”. It is an old way to get across the message of true love – but in a new movie. It is a question that has dogged a whole lot of us over the ages and which most of us are familiar with the answer to as well.
Girl and guy are apparently well and truly in love. Girl i.e. Anna Brady (Amy Adams) who is in a very unique profession of getting houses ready for sale / lease and guy Jeremy (Adam Scott) who is a cardiologist. They have been seeing each other for 4 years now but the dimwit hasn’t popped the question yet. So Madam Brady is being tested for her patience for certain. She is hoping that Jeremy will pop the question tonight but instead he gives her super expensive “Ear” rings instead. Ha ha. And then after all of it, he runs off to Ireland to attend some cardiologist meet. A frustrated Anna is surfing the net and surprise surprise – there is a weird custom in Ireland that allows a girl to propose marriage to a man on the 29th February in a Leap Year. And so madam decides to pack her Louis Vuitton suitcase and takes off to Ireland but standing in her way are a huge storm that has stopped all flights and Declan O’Callaghan (Matthew Goode) a gorgeous Irish man who runs a pub and is nursing a broken heart. The rest of the story is obviously very predictable frame by frame and therefore quite boring.
Director Anand Tucker (fancy name at that) does a reasonable job with Leap Year but the story is too darn predictable for him to really make much of a difference. Having said that, he is not the hottest property in Hollywood for certain even if he builds a niche for himself in “predictable” RomComs. Amy Adams rocks as always and this time around it is the guys who provide the eye candy. This one is a chick flick in the true sense of the word and should be watched either on DVD or on HBO when u really have nothing else to do with your lives 5 on 10 from my side.
Watch the trailer at http://www.imdb.com/video/imdb/vi2052654361/
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