movie "LEAP YEAR"

Just had a late sleep last night after watching Leap Year, I thought it’s a horror movie or something, actually it’s a romantic comedy, a ‘fortunate misfortune’ love story. And I ended up laughing out loud around midnight. Some love stories make me sick but this one, it kept me awake, not minding it’s already midnight.

Maybe to some it’s just one of those paint-by-numbers comedies, predictable from the first frame to the ultra-corny ending. Yeah maybe it was, but truly I enjoyed watching it. To hopeless romantic, it would surely clack! I know the story is typical, nothing so extraordinary, but still, it went out so lightly wonderful… Add to that are those enthralling and captivating Irish locations and of course the charming character of Amy Adams and Matthew Goode.

Bratty, little self-centered and uptight Anna (Adams) follows an Irish romantic tradition in which a man must say yes if she proposed to on a leap day, so she travelled to Dublin to propose to her boyfriend. But because of a bad weather, her plane is diverted to rural Ireland. No ferries are running, but Anna is hell-bent to get to Dublin and she finds a boatman who drops her off at a picturesque town on Ireland’s Dingle Peninsula.. There she met Declan(Goode), enigmatic, spoiled and unpredictable. Since Anna was so desperate to get into her boyfriend’s location before February 29, she hired Declan no matter how irritated she was, to drive her off to Dublin…of course for a certain amount of money.. And as critics expected, avalanche of catastrophes intervenes. Their car fell into a creek, missed the train, and got pelted by hail and rolls down a grassy hill into the muck and so on… Attach to that their "on and off" petty fights! But behind those host of disasters and (sweet moments), they’ve reached Dublin just in time! And the rest you should watch!

..And romantic comedies supposed to make you laugh but there was this point in the movie that suddenly broke my heart. The scene where Declan thought Anna left him there in the bus station without waking him up. His reaction made me tear-jerking.

Before I’ll end this up.. I’ll leave a question for you. “What will you grab if you’ll find out you’re house is burning and you’ve got only 60 seconds?