Ok, so this week I've been keeping up with my TV shows that I had mentioned in the previous blog, and the only new movie I saw was Leap Year staring Amy Adams and Matthew Goode. I had no Idea who he was until I looked him on IMDb and saw that he played the semi-bad guy Ozymandias in the 2009’s Watchman.
Was I looking forward to this movie? No. But it was on my list of semi-interesting chick flicks I had to see before I could properly judge. One of my biggest rules that I have for critiquing movies is that I have to at least watch it before I criticize it. The other rule is that I have to watch the movie more than once at different stages in my life. I feel that there is a huge influence on a viewer’s present mood and the film they watch. Moods are constantly changing and therefore so are opinions.
Anyway, back to Leap Year. Overall, I thought the story was slow and the intended “cute comedy” was silly and was nothing new to (wrong word) previous chick flick films. Small neat organized woman gets her Louis Vuitton bag stuck in mud and girl falls in mud. Har har. It’s been done. The overall basis of the story is about a girl who has not yet been proposed to by her boyfriend and gets so distraught so she decides to do it herself. It happens to be Leap Year which is significant because there is an Irish tradition that there is one day of the year a woman can respectfully ask a man to marry her. It is conveniently so that her boyfriend happens to be traveling to Dublin and so she follows him only to get delayed over and over again. In the process she falls in love with another man.
First of all, I hate the idea of building a romantic comedy off of a woman who clearly is in love enough with a man to go out of her way to propose herself, yet she falls in love with another. The writer ends the movie by making the boyfriend a sudden douchebag and therefore making it ok that she had fallen for the new love interest.
I get the idea of combining old love comedy with the modern idea of woman proposing to man and woman loving two men at once, but I think they should have hinted at the boyfriends hidden douchebagness throughout the movie, so it wasn’t such a surprise to the viewer in the end. Yeah! Then I might have been ok with her new love interest.
In comparison to other more recent romantic comedies I’ve seen, The Back-Up Plan, When in Rome, Love Happens, and Did you hear about the Morgans. I think Leap Year had unoriginal comedy and was simply unromantic.
Tata,
C
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