Amy Adams Can't Save Leap Year

The Irish scenery is charming in the new romantic comedy Leap Year, but most critics run out nice things to say about the movie beyond that.

• Amy Adams does her best as an American seeking to exploit an Irish tradition about women proposing once every 4 years, but her considerable talents "don't do much for the film "except for perhaps ensuring that it's not a completely painful cinematic experience," writes Jeff Vice at the Deseret News.

• This "paint-by-numbers comedy, predictable from the first frame to the ultra-corny ending," is saved only by the location and the charms of Adams and co-star Matthew Goode, writes Claudia Puig at USA Today.
• The movie is "trite but relatively painless," writes Cliff Doerkson at the Chicago Reader. Director Anand Tucker "should consider a career shooting travel brochures."
• "Rich in cliché and brimming with the sort of potent idiocy that can only be found in January-release romantic comedies, Leap Year manages to do every possible thing wrong," complains Connie Ogle at the Miami Herald.

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