The new Amy Adams-tumbles-down-an-Irish-hillside romantic comedy has racked up a slew of groaning reviews. Read the full post.
Jan 9
2010
11:34 AM ET
Amy Adams' 'Leap Year': What Hollywood gets wrong about women and marriage
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Personally, I enjoyed this movie. So what if it was every silly, cliched thing I could ever have expected from a romcom? So what if they end up riding happily into the sunset in the end? Life sucks enough as it is without reminding us in movie after movie after movie that it sucks. Maybe I would like to live vicariously through Adams, as a girl who has become disillusioned with most ideas of love. So what? I’d say I’m a feminist and I still loved it. Sometimes, it’s okay to stop being snobby and rant on and on about “intelligent” film. If I want to sit back and be hand fed a movie that makes me feel warm and fuzzy inside and forget about that jerkhole of an ex I stopped talking to 10 minutes ago, I’d say I have the right. Do all women rush to the aisle? No. Do some women? Yes. There is a such thing as a bad movie, but a movie with silliness, romance, and (SHOCK!) a happy ending does not automatically constitute one.
It’s a movie! It’s about chemistry and Adams and Goode were smokin’. I thought it was adorable but then again, I like The Blind Side too.
I loved Leap Year!!! In fact, I am obsessed with its romantic, feel-good ending. I have taught film and mass media at the college level, I currently chair a women’s commission, and I consider myself a feminist who has been critical of my own church for its patriarchal attitude, but I still LOVED THIS MOVIE! It was cathartic, fun, and charming! It’s message about “everything I ever wanted but nothing I really needed” is important. I didn’t have to think too hard, I salivated over Matthew Goode, and since, I bought everything in TV and cinema available that he has made. I don’t apologize for loving this romcom or for watching it repeatedly. Did I mention I am 65? Of course, the plot is silly, the Irish characters, are stereotypical, and the disasters are ridiculous…I still loved it! It made me feel good, and all I asked of this film. When I want to leave the theatre brokenhearted and pensive, I’ll watch Million Dollar Baby or something else by Clint Eastwood.
Just saw the movie. Of all the romantic comedies I’ve been dragged to, this was actually good – way better than the Notebook – which I fell asleep watching. In my limited experience about 3 in 5 women do go crazy over the thought of marriage. But you seem to be obsessing on this point and not on our heroine. She figured out on her own that her marriage dream was a bad idea and is to be applauded for transcending the stereotype. She decided to leave and make ‘no plans’ with Irish boy and he’s the one that re-introduces the marriage idea she had abandoned. If you want to berate someone how about a guy who proposes after knowing someone two days? But it is just a movie …
I am a 60 year old woman who just retired. I am now getting around to watching movies. I choose to look at Leap Year over and over, The scenery is breathtaking and I love th characters. Not everyone wants to marry a doctor as Anna soon finds out. I love this movie and I am very sorry that people thought so badly of it. The movie was enjoyable and easy to watch for me.
Personally I found this movie funny. I found it enjoyable and funny because I actually know people like that! Several! To be caught up in the “stereotype” and the “cliche” that one must get married and it must be a certain time and place is just funny to me because of the ridiculousness of it all. However, I can also see why many are annoyed with this premise for the film. It IS annoying that Hollywood doesn’t have more rom-coms that portray women more as we are. It is possible (and much more common than “they” seem to give us credit for) that a woman can be in love and level-headed….we do it all the time.