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50A by-the-numbers romantic comedy as predictable as it is cloying.
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0This film is unquestionably the most unromantic and downright despairing romcom since "Made of Honor" or, possibly, "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?"
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38It’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.
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40Nobody here brings their A-game, denying us the pleasure of what Adams and director Anand Tucker could create together.
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As modern rom-coms go, this is trite but relatively painless.
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75This 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?
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38The scenery's nice. But once you've said the scenery's nice, you're no longer talking about a movie worth talking about.
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58Amy Adams is such a likable actress that she makes the romantic comedy Leap Year worth watching even though we’ve seen it all before.
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20Rubbish. Irish eyes will be hard pressed to grimace, let alone smile.
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67Leap Year could have used more pizzazz.
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25Rich 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.
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63Fortunately, 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.
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20On 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
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38Rent "Enchanted" with Adams, and watch Goode as Colin Firth's boyfriend in his other current movie, "A Single Man."
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50The "Made of Honor" screenwriters don't deliver enough jokes or feisty exchanges between the ill-matched traveling companions.
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50Usually 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.
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50We believe the dislike at the onset but not the romance at the payoff. And that's a major flaw.
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30If 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.
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50Virtually 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.
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50In 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.
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42There isn’t a spontaneous or unpredictable moment in this loving, perversely reverent homage to rom-com, road-movie, and mismatched-romance conventions.
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25At least Adams and Goode are always watchable, even when you occasionally feel embarrassed for them.
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40An uneven romantic comedy that feels as fresh as a hunk of week-old soda bread.
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10What 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.
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30Mostly awful.
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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?
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50Where it should be light and graceful, Leap Year trips and thuds.
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40Pleasant enough overall, if also somewhat gratingly old-fashioned.
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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.
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A retread of just about every rom-com cliche ever turned.