His Movie Reviews

The funny thing about having a movie review blog is that a lot of people get you movie related gifts for Christmas.  When in doubt, get a theater gift card I suppose.   So with gift card in hand, we went to see the newest incarnation of the romantic comedy, Leap Year.  Amy Adams and Matthew Goode star in this film about a woman that hashes out this plan to propose to her boyfriend on February 29th in Ireland.  Of course nothing goes as planned and seeing that the other main star of the film is not her boyfriend, you can pretty much figure out the rest. Leap Year produces no clever advances or accomplishments to the romantic comedy genre, instead it is a straight by the book. In fact, just by watching the preview you get the whole movie in a nutshell. And with that being said, it makes this movie almost feel like a straight to DVD release.  Amy Adams is cute, but seems a bit weak in parts as conflict arises.  For example, when someone steals her bag, she rushes in then quickly turns timid and awkward.  Matthew Goode does an alright job but don’t expect an award winning performance.  Overall it is a simple love story that has been seen a million times before, and if you like romantic comedies, you’ll probably enjoy this.  The biggest flaw in this movie however is the horrible green screen.  Throughout the film, it is easily seen that they have been pasted into the beautiful landscape of Ireland and makes me wonder if they were ever there in the first place.  I mean seriously, I just paid $18 dollars for us to see this movie, at least make it look like they are actually there.  There are parts in the film where the green screen is about as good as what I can achieve with the fake iChat backgrounds on my Mac.  This one problem does a huge disservice to the film and especially Ireland.  I would say skip this movie, or just watch the trailer below – it’ll save you time and money.

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