Director: Anand Tucker
Year: 2010
Rating: *
Totally fluffy movie with little character development or really even content, but featuring gorgeously scruffy Englishman Matthew Goode
(sporting a not-so-noticeably-fake Irish accent) and Amy Adams
(who, while admittedly pretty and currently omnipresent, continues to annoy the shit out of me because she acts every part the same way). Featuring actual lines like "I can't die without getting engaged!" and lots of walking around the Irish countryside in 5+-inch heels, this is definitely more of a "catch it from the couch when you have a cold and don't quite care to reach the remote" kind of movie than a "feel good chick flick," even.
Adams plays Anna, a career-driven Bostonian
(ha! one shot of a Boston statue does not a Boston movie make) who fully expects her boyfriend of 4 years to propose to her when she hears from a friend that he has visited a jewelry store. When he doesn't
(and I give nothing away here, because it's in the preview), she decides to follow him on his business trip to Dublin in order to propose on Leap Day -- apparently an age-old Irish tradition. She encounters just about every type of weather-based disaster one possibly could, and recruits Declan (Goode) to get her from Dingle
(yes, it's a real place, Southwest coast of Ireland. Gorgeous, really. Anyone wanna go with me?) to Dublin.
Mishaps ensue, many of which might
not ensue were she not wearing the aforementioned inappropriate footwear. They hate each other, then they like each other reluctantly, then cook together, kiss, sleep in the same bed, crash a wedding, and... shocker... she wonders if she should really be going to all these lengths to propose to the less hot, less suitable, less
everything American instead of the adorable "Irishman." Again, it's basically in the preview.
You could leap on past this one, lass, and have a goode year just as well.
(How did all those puns get in there?! Sneaky.)
