15 May 2013. This romantic comedy takes is basic plot points as snobbish girl meets obnoxious man in a foreign country while making her way to her "beloved" to propose to him. A predictable, but consistent, and photographically breathtaking landscape movie, with a nice balance of comedy and drama, yet nothing extraordinarily outstanding. More light-weight than substantive in its more poignant moments and humorous outpouring. Amy Adams comes across pretty unlikeable at the beginning, making her transformation in this movie more challenging, maybe even unnecessarily so. Comparatively, this movie seems to be missing an underlying layered quality that adds a spicy mixture of complexity to other excellent romantic comedies. Intolerable Cruelty (2003) had the high-powered fire works of two A-class movie stars portraying high stakes money in getting married through getting divorced, How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days (2003) which plays on the notion of how easy it is to pick up any girl bet, Morning Glory (2010) and America Sweethearts (2001) that both sparkle with all-star casts had the backdrop of television studio dynamics or Salmon Fishing in the Yemen (2011) that added the foreign flavor, Music and Lyrics (2007) had the impending musical piece to be completed for a famous singer and her fans, and Mostly Martha (2001) had the cooking in a restaurant, The Proposal (2009) where Sandra Bullock, a stuck-up business woman marries a man to keep her visa to stay in the State to keep working, Just My Luck (2006) where the luckiest girl's luck gets transferred to the unluckiest guy; You Kill Me (2007) is about a relationship with a paid assassin, while My Super Ex-Girlfriend (2006) had the superhero facing a deadly nemesis, Kate & Leopold (2001) had time travel and being out of both time and place, the classic The Ghost and Mrs. Muir (1947) or the more contemporary Just Like Heaven (2005)had the paranormal, and the contemporary Warm Bodies (2013) undated and included a zombie genre in its theme that all added the in forced interaction and interplay between the couple. I Think I Love My Wife (2007) is an example of the comedic embarrassments of sex with the other woman, but much more dramatic in its overall presentation, a much more difficult creative balance or If Only (2004) that captures a much more substantively nuanced romance, comedy, and drama of the bittersweet vision of love, or the fantastical but superb occult comedy romance drama of the all-star cast of Practical Magic (1998). One a more qualitatively comparative level, Two Weeks Notice (2002) has the same temperament and script quality set in the dynamics of male lawyer and a female lay assistant, 13 Going on 30 (2004) a fantasy of a girl who discover love after waking up to being 17 years older, The Ugly Truth (2009) another straight-forward romantic comedy set in a television setting with polar opposites on fireworks display, or The Truth About Love (2005) centered over a impulsive love postcard set to a woman who already has a love interest who just happens to be he mailer's bestfriend.
Leap Year, nevertheless doesn't rise to the almost magical blended complexity and diverting entertainment of Simply Irresistible (1999) centered on the power of cooking or the intriguing element of mental illness in the award-winning Silver Linings Playbook (2012). The romantic movies of this genre are But it is The Decoy Bride (2011) set in Scotland that has the most resonance with Leap Year along with a more exciting, dramatic subtext where a Hollywood actress seeks to get married out of the spotlight of the media.
Leap Year, nevertheless doesn't rise to the almost magical blended complexity and diverting entertainment of Simply Irresistible (1999) centered on the power of cooking or the intriguing element of mental illness in the award-winning Silver Linings Playbook (2012). The romantic movies of this genre are But it is The Decoy Bride (2011) set in Scotland that has the most resonance with Leap Year along with a more exciting, dramatic subtext where a Hollywood actress seeks to get married out of the spotlight of the media.