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Leap Year (2010)

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Average Rating: 4.2/10
Reviews Counted: 126
Fresh: 27 | Rotten: 99

Amy Adams is as appealing as ever, but her charms aren't enough to keep Leap Year from succumbing to an overabundance of clichés and an unfunny script.

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Average Rating: 4.4/10
Critic Reviews: 24
Fresh: 5 | Rotten: 19

Amy Adams is as appealing as ever, but her charms aren't enough to keep Leap Year from succumbing to an overabundance of clichés and an unfunny script.

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Average Rating: 3.2/5
User Ratings: 127,090

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Movie Info

A woman (Amy Adams) heads to Ireland in order to force her boyfriend (Adam Scott) to accept her wedding proposal by scheduling it on leap day, the only time when he couldn't refuse due to the country's tradition in this Spyglass Entertainment romantic comedy. Shopgirl's Anand Tucker directs from a script by Harry Elfont and Deborah Kaplan. Matthew Goode co-stars as a handsome innkeeper who throws a wrench into the woman's plans. ~ Jeremy Wheeler, Rovi

PG, 1 hr. 41 min.

Comedy, Romance

Deborah Kaplan, Harry Elfont

May 4, 2010

$25.9M

Universal Pictures/Spyglass

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All Critics (127) | Top Critics (24) | Fresh (28) | Rotten (100) | DVD (4)

Leap Year is a sweet little movie, although so by the books that it doesn't exactly distinguish itself

January 9, 2010 Full Review Source: MSN Movies | Comment

Leap Year may be the least funny Hollywood comedy to take advantage of Irish tax credits since The Honeymooners.

January 8, 2010 Full Review Source: New York Post | Comment
New York Post
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The most charming of actors can be left flailing in the face of a feeble script and direction.

January 8, 2010 Full Review Source: Globe and Mail | Comment
Globe and Mail
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What makes Leap Year so singularly dispiriting is precisely that it is bad without distinction â" so witless, charmless and unimaginative that it can be described as a movie only in a strictly technical sense.

January 8, 2010 Comment
New York Times
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If the premise seems lame, the actual script by Deborah Kaplan and Harry Elfont is far worse, leaning on so many clichéd situations it's a wonder 45 other screenwriters weren't credited.

January 8, 2010 Full Review Source: Detroit News | Comment
Detroit News
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There's not one surprising moment in the script, but Adams and Goode allow you to look past the familiar and develop a rooting interest in them as a couple.

January 8, 2010 Full Review Source: Associated Press | Comment
Associated Press
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The bright spot in this boggy botched mess is Amy Adams, a fine and always interesting actress who sparkles and shines here despite the stilted storyline, preposterous improbabilities and an artificially sweetened storybook ending.

October 5, 2011 Full Review Source: American Profile | Comment

...a familiar yet watchable piece of work...

May 9, 2010 Full Review Source: Reel Film Reviews | Comment
Reel Film Reviews

...generic romantic comedy about a beautiful young woman (Amy Adams, experiencing a career low) who plans to land her commitment-shy boyfriend by flying to Ireland and surprising him by proposing on Feb. 29

May 8, 2010 Full Review Source: Arkansas Democrat-Gazette | Comment
Arkansas Democrat-Gazette

Scribes Deborah Kaplan and Harry Elfont rely heavily on the dramatic Irish landscape - and it is dramatic - to make up for the lack of drama in their script.

March 25, 2010 Full Review Source: Moving Pictures Magazine | Comment
Moving Pictures Magazine

Adams is cute as a button, as always, but even she can't energize this tired excuse for a comedy.

March 12, 2010 Full Review Source: Salt Lake Tribune | Comment
Salt Lake Tribune

Rubbish. Irish eyes will be hard pressed to grimace, let alone smile.

February 26, 2010 Full Review Source: Empire Magazine | Comment
Empire Magazine

While thereâ(TM)s some chemistry between the pair, itâ(TM)s not enough to compensate for their paper-thin characters, never mind all the crosseyed Guinness-swilling extras.

February 26, 2010 Full Review Source: Time Out | Comment

Everyone tries hard, but Leap Year shows talent cant redeem a truly uninspired script. For committed rom-com fans only.

February 26, 2010 Full Review Source: Film4 | Comment (1)

The film is packed with spontaneous acts of Irish country dancing and twinkly locals beaming over their Guinness. Ireland should sue.

February 26, 2010 Full Review Source: Times [UK] | Comment
Times [UK]

The only "leap" I felt like making was off a motorway gantry into the fast lane of the M25.

February 26, 2010 Full Review Source: Guardian [UK] | Comment
Guardian [UK]

Adams and Goode are hampered by a witless script, which aims for It Happened One Night cross-country battle-of-the-sexes entertainment but misses the mark so completely.

February 26, 2010 Comment
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Audience Reviews for Leap Year

Good rom-com with Amy Adams and Matthew Goode that brings some laughs for there are pratfalls and other silliness. Adams really has wonderful physical comedic skills but still allows her charm to come across and make me smile. While the movie gets a little clumsy, nothing is bad enough to keep me from appreciating her.

January 7, 2010
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Dean McKenna

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Romance comedies have been bad for years, the record stands even stronger with this. Amy Adams needs to stick with movies like The Fighter, and he just needs to get in more movies PERIOD! A boring and predictable movie but I did respect the beautiful settings in Ireland, but then we get dumped back with a cliche and

March 13, 2011
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Brad Wright

Super Reviewer

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Foreign Titles

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