kateozxx This is one of if not the finest modern romantic movie, given the remarkable traditional Irish hospitality, glorious pictures, fascinating music and heart touching performance. It reveals the dark side of the human nature, greediness and selfishness, as well as the bright side, that is the beauty of true love. Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it. Especially Richard Corliss from the Time magazine. Things that matter most must never be at the mercy of things that matter least.

sddavis63 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+.

h-abdollapuri 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.

Prismark10 Amy Adams plays a go getter who heads for Dublin in order to get her cardiologist boyfriend (Adam Scott) to accept her wedding proposal by scheduling it on leap day. The reason being he cannot refuse due to the tradition of the country (which is false by the way). She gets detoured as her plane gets diverted and has to find her way to Dublin where she meets grumpy innkeeper Matthew Goode.The film is unfunny, full of stereotypical and non believable characters, even the scenery looks poor as a lot of its bad green screen.As a romantic comedy it fails. You feel little appeal for Adams character and I found Goode's curmudgeon to be off putting as well. No wonder Goode has washed his hands off the film and I expected better from Adams who may I remind you is a five time Oscar nominee.