When yet another anniversary passes without a marriage proposal from her boyfriend, Anna decides to take action. Aware of a Celtic tradition that allows women to pop the question on Feb. 29, she plans to follow her lover to Dublin and ask him to marry her. Fate has other plans, however, and Anna winds up on the other side of the Emerald Isle with handsome, but surly, Declan -- an Irishman who may just lead Anna down the road to true love.
Leap Year may be the least funny Hollywood comedy to take advantage of Irish tax credits since The Honeymooners.
– Lou Lumenick,
New York Post,
8 Jan 2010
rotten:
Leap Year is a sweet little movie, although so by the books that it doesn't exactly distinguish itself
– Mary F. Pols,
MSN Movies,
9 Jan 2010
rotten:
Will they fall in love? Will we ever care?
– Aaron Hillis,
Time Out New York,
13 Jan 2010
rotten:
In Hollywood, it's all about the concept, and some studio executive must have thought it would be fun to watch Adams slogging around in the Irish mud. Unfortunately, there's no accounting for taste.
– Calvin Wilson,
St. Louis Post-Dispatch,
14 Jan 2010
rotten:
While therea(TM)s some chemistry between the pair, ita(TM)s not enough to compensate for their paper-thin characters, never mind all the crosseyed Guinness-swilling extras.