JamesG
01-08-2010, 05:59 PM
Movie Reviews: Leap Year
We have only just entered the second week of 2010, but the New York Times's A.O. Scott has already dubbed Leap Year the worst movie of the year.
He remarks that he is certain that other bad movies will certainly come along. "What makes Leap Year so singularly dispiriting is precisely that it is bad without distinction -- so witless, charmless and unimaginative that it can be described as a movie only in a strictly technical sense."
Claudia Puig in USA Today calls it "a paint-by-numbers comedy, predictable from the first frame to the ultra-corny ending."
Several critics do allow that Amy Adams and Matthew Goode's chemistry in the film prevent it from being a complete bust.
But Liam Lacey comments in the Toronto Globe & Mail: "Leap Year is the second romantic comedy in a month, following the Hugh Grant-Sarah Jessica Parker movie, Did You Hear About the Morgans?, which proves the most charming of actors can be left flailing in the face of a feeble script and direction."
-IMDB News
We have only just entered the second week of 2010, but the New York Times's A.O. Scott has already dubbed Leap Year the worst movie of the year.
He remarks that he is certain that other bad movies will certainly come along. "What makes Leap Year so singularly dispiriting is precisely that it is bad without distinction -- so witless, charmless and unimaginative that it can be described as a movie only in a strictly technical sense."
Claudia Puig in USA Today calls it "a paint-by-numbers comedy, predictable from the first frame to the ultra-corny ending."
Several critics do allow that Amy Adams and Matthew Goode's chemistry in the film prevent it from being a complete bust.
But Liam Lacey comments in the Toronto Globe & Mail: "Leap Year is the second romantic comedy in a month, following the Hugh Grant-Sarah Jessica Parker movie, Did You Hear About the Morgans?, which proves the most charming of actors can be left flailing in the face of a feeble script and direction."
-IMDB News