Movie Review: Leap Year

Yeah yeah. It seems like I've seen a lot of movies lately. I might even go see Valentine's Day in the theater. Blow my mind!

Now I really wanted to like Leap Year. I really did. But let's cut to the chase: Amy Adams is an uptight, stick-up-her-ass-sanitizes-bar-counters-before-drinking-there home stager who thinks it's romantic to run to Ireland to follow some folklore about proposing to her boyfriend.

She's not likeable whatsoever. First off, home stager? In Boston? I don't know about the real estate market there, but home staging is not going to bring your home up $150k. If it can, I'm dragging her ass to my house and make her work her magic. She goes all the way to another country and seems to only bring fancy clothes and high heeled shoes. If you're flying with LV luggage, than you know that you need a pair of slippers or running shoes when traveling. ANd no, it's not cute to bore the person next to you about how you're going to propose to your boyfriend, on most airlines if you're yapping on overnight flights they tell your ass to STFU.

I suppose we're supposed to think she's adorably quirky. Like how she's snotty because she expects to find a cab to take her to Dublin. And naturally the locals are bumbling idiots who won't help her. Or how about how she manages to trash an entire teenie hotel room because she wants to plug in her blackberry.

Probably the tip off is when she's reading a recipe and has huge issues over the size of the carrots, whether they're "medium" or not.

I wish I could push on the side of the irish dude played by Matthew Goode but nope...he was just as rude and unlikeable. And he looked like he needed to shave.

So the redeeming parts of this movie:
1. Her wardrobe. Girl had some NICE ASS SHOES in this movie. Her wardrobe is to die for.
2. The wedding scene.
3. The scenery. Ireland is gorgeous.
4. Her boyfriend/soon-to-be-fiance. Maybe we're supposed to t hink he's the stereotypical uptight preppy boy wearing an ascot. But he was always nice to her (unlike Matthew Goode), always saying he loved her, and while they mock his job as a cardiologist...eff that. He's a cardiologist! Rock on sistah.

She makes a turning point at the end when she realizes that he's not the one for her, because when the fire alarm went off he went and grabbed the same items that we would all grab and who knows what she wanted him to grab...her maybe? Who knows. If there's a fire, i'm grabbing my cats, the family jewelry not in the safe deposit box, my purse (i mean, come on...you lose your house you're gonna need your cell and your wallet/ID/car keys)...and if there's another second, my flatscreen. Hey, I back up my photos with Carbonite and everything else is in the safe deposit box. And if Kraig's legs aren't working, there's no way i can drag him AND the cats.

Overall though it's cute. A rental I guess. I had pretty high hopes for it because Amy Adams is a fantastic actress (go see Junebug) but really I just wanted to smack her for most of the movie. There. I said it.