Review | Leap Year
Credit: Jonathan Hession
OPENS FRIDAY 1/8
The normally reliable Amy Adams makes a rare misstep in this lackluster romantic comedy. She plays a controlling Boston yuppie who travels to Ireland to propose to her beau on February 29 (inspired by an Irish tradition in which women can pop the question on a leap year). But after some bad luck strands her on the other side of the country, she pays a cash-starved innkeeper (Matthew Goode) to drive her to Dublin and -- spoiler alert! -- falls for him. Despite some nice turns at the end, the flick suffers from too many cheap laughs and zero spark between the stars.
--BRADLEY JACOBS
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1I Hate when american actors try pull off the irish accent. First off they dont and CANT!!!! So why bother??? Its just a waste of the directors money and time!Its only gonna bomb in the cinema!Ireland isnt a country full of people goin round talking like leprechauns sitting under a rainbow with a pot of gold! ITS NOT LIKE THAT! so dont insult us wit your pity attempt at the accent!You cant pull it off and you sound like a person in the 1800's 1900's ireland has come a long way from then! And i bet none of the peole involved in the film has been to ireland??? to take in the accent properly!hmmm?(apart from probably film there)didnt tink so! And why dont you employ irish actors??? instead of big names wit usless attempts at our accent!Gonna boycott this film its a disgrace and an insult to our nationality! SHAME ON YOU!!!! I Hate when american actors try pull off the irish accent. First off they dont and CANT!!!! So why bother??? Its just a waste of the directors money and time!Its only gonna bomb in the cinema!Ireland isnt a country full of people goin round talking like leprechauns sitting under a rainbow with a pot of gold! ITS NOT LIKE THAT! so dont insult us wit your pity attempt at the accent!You cant pull it off and you sound like a person in the 1800's 1900's ireland has come a long way from then! And i bet none of the peole involved in the film has been to ireland??? to take in the accent properly!hmmm?(apart from probably film there)didnt tink so! And why dont you employ irish actors??? instead of big names wit usless attempts at our accent!Gonna boycott this film its a disgrace and an insult to our nationality! SHAME ON YOU!!!!