The story of "Leap Year" is entirely predictable, so whether the movie makes the grade or not depends on the journey: how do the main characters actually get to where you know they're going to end up, almost from the very beginning?As Anna Brady, Amy Adams is a real estate "stager" (she basically pretties up properties by bringing nice and fancy stuff into the places to make them look better for owners trying to sell) from Boston. She's in a long-term relationship with boyfriend Jeremy (Adam Scott) and she has reason to believe that he's bought her an engagement ring and is going to propose. Instead, she gets ear-rings and he flies off to Dublin on business. Not one to give up easily, Anna travels to Ireland to find him and ask him to marry her, in keeping with an old Irish tradition that the woman can propose to the man on Leap Day - February 29. But weather throws her plans into chaos, and she teams up to travel with with smooth talking local pub owner Declan (Matthew Goode), who's going to help her get to Dublin by the deadline.You get the point. Obviously, Anna and Declan are going to fall for each other. But how's the journey that gets them to that point? It's quite pleasant actually. It's not outrageously funny, although it has some humorous moments. It's very innocent - nothing "improper" ever happens between the two of them. And as the viewer you get some really nice shots of Irish scenery along the way. And Anna herself says to Declan at one point that people tell her that her legs are her best quality - and, indeed, there's a fair amount of focus on Amy Adams' legs most of the way through. But it's always very innocent.It's a sweet movie, as opposed to a great movie. Unlike some I didn't personally feel the incredible chemistry between Adams and Goode, but they worked well enough together that I really wanted their characters to end up together. And with Amy Adams being her usual adorable self (I admit I've been a bit smitten with her ever since seeing her in "Enchanted") this can't really take a wrong turn. It may not be a great movie - but, yes, it's a sweet romance; a very pleasant movie to watch. I'm only going to rate it as a 5 - but I'd say it's a 5+. Not quite a 6, but a 5+.

I was really expecting better from the movie, especially since I have always been intrigued by the leap year. It is a classic boy meets girl story which intentionally goes awry before they of course end up together in the end. I just felt the premise was meh and the middle was slow and forced.I am a big fan of Amy Adams and she is adorable as usual in this movie though very uptight. I actually did not like her character in the movie AT ALL which is funny because she is actually a lot like me lol. Super organized, anal, OCD, etc. I know these are not flattering qualities and I do not like seeing them in myself or another character haha.I had never seen the male lead before and although he fit the bill when it came to looks, I utterly despised his character. I know they were going for the opposite of the protagonist, but did they need to make him so gross, goofy and crude? Again, I guess that's what they were going for making him the opposite of her but I really just didn't care for the extreme contrast. Usually I find men 75% more attractive when they have this kind of accent but I found him incredibly difficult to even understand and anything but charming.Still, there are definitely cute parts throughout and a few laughs. Most people I spoke to adored this movie so maybe it is just me. The ending is worth the wait and definitely will leave you smiling. Definitely worth a watch, I just wouldn't watch it again.

First of all, I hate when in almost all movies, they show a successful man as a senseless person that he does not deserve love from women and almost always the woman in the movie falls in love with a jobless guy. What the hell was this movie about? This girl was with her boyfriend for 4 years and obviously she loved her so much that she decided to go to Dublin to propose to him. But again, like many other similar movies, she fell in love with a stranger that has nothing but a women-likable personality and in this kind of movies, the director tries to show such a nice person from this type of men and, on the other hand, they show the successful men as jerks. From the moment she met that guy in the bar, I knew they might end up together but I was hoping that I was wrong as I hated the guy, but the director again like many similar movies, disappointed me and she left her successful man ( they did a good job by making him a jerk at the end of movie when he said he proposed to her because of his business)This type of movies has a negative effect on society and romantic relationships as they make people think that successful men do not have feelings and the only men that have feelings are some jobless men that they have not accomplished anything in life rather than being able to talk good and being charming. My rating to this movie and its predictable story is 2.

Dear IMDb, I saw this movie, and I took notes. 1. The guy is billed as "charming" but comes off as an asshole, the lady is an up-tight stick in the mud because writing a multi-dimensional character for women is really hard, I guess. 2. Since screen writing must be so incredibly difficult, when these two clichéd characters interact it's through arguing. See, having characters argue is a good substitute for quality dialog when none is provided for in the screenplay. 3. Hey, Ireland sure looks pretty though, doesn't it? If you are planning a once in a lifetime vacation you could do a lot worse than Ireland. 4. Why did the film makers work so hard for this movie if their intention was to make this movie?