Amy Adams can do a movie about watching paint dry and I would be all about it. Her very presence on screen makes any film worth the drive. But now she is going to be in Leap Year with Matthew Goode, and I am just not sure I want to see it. Say it isn’t so!!
In Leap Year, Adams plays a woman ready for marriage to her long term boyfriend. When he doesn’t propose she is distraught. However he is on a trip to Dublin and she discovers a tradition that says if a woman proposes to her lover on Leap Day, February 29th that he has to accept. So taking advantage of the custom, she races off to Dublin to meet up with her man to propose. But the trip is not as smooth as she expects.
And as an added bonus we get the poster as well!
On the surface it looks absolutely charming, but the trailer gives EVERYTHING away. We know that she is on this romantic mission that is plagued by roadblocks, and she will be falling for the guy who volunteered to help her (Wait.. isn’t that Enchanted??) and will eventually have to choose. But they even lay down the exact scene where she is put in the awkward situation and the proposal is flipped on her.
I have no doubt that this will have tons of charm, and Amy Adams is infectious. But the trailer spelled out the whole thing for me, and the plot is too romcom generic. I think I have seen it already, but maybe it will have something else that makes it worthwhile. But at this point I don’t know what that might be.
