Everything Is More Important Than My Dissertation Part 3 – Compact Review: Leap Year
Here’s the thing. I love Amy Adams. I love Matthew Goode. I love John Lithgow. I love Adam Scott. I lovelovelove American presentations of British life, especially little rural British (Irish in this case) towns. And I most of all love those awful predictable films where two characters hate each other when they meet and fall in formulaic love over the course of the film. So this film should’ve instantly become my favourite guilty pleasure. Except for one thing. It was so, so dull. It could’ve been lovely. It should’ve been lovely. And yes it was okay, the protagonists were nice and the subsidiary characters were alright and the story was quite sweet, but the script tried too hard and ended up being slightly worse than all those other films just like it. If only it’d been as short and sweet as this review.
