My girlfriends and I have been wanting to watch this movie for a while - romantic comedies are mindless fun and therefore the best way to spend Sunday afternoons (AS OPPOSED TO DOING LAUNDRY).

The story is simple - girl loves boy (mostly because boy is a cardiologist and therefore rich), boy fails to propose, girl gets impatient and decides to believe in a ridiculous tradition that “allows” women to propose to their boyfriends on leap year. So far, so good - romantic comedies shouldn’t be intelligent or deep.

We never really meet the sugar daddy in question but spend lots of time with burning-hot, rustic Matthew Goode - so who cares? Girl and boy (not THE boy, but Mr. Hot Abs) go through a train-wreck of a trip to Dublin, hating each other the entire way, as girl frantically tries to reach Boy1 so she can propose according to the tradition.

In other words, Amy Adams plays a “typical woman” who goes absolutely bananas at the whiff of her very own wedding cake and goes through horrors to try and nail that opportunity. Horrors including: trekking miles on a road of dirt in stilettos, climbing a hill in stilettos, frolicking on the sand in stilettos.. you get the picture. To be fair, it wasn’t all FULLY horrible since she managed to keep her hair picture-perfect through severe storms, nearly drowning, and a casual cross-country escapade (on *cough* stilettos).

None of this REALLY ruined the movie experience - again, it was a Sunday afternoon and it didn’t include scrounging for quarters. But when our VERY SINGLE heroine runs back to Ireland in search of hot abs (a grumpy, heartless man who finds Amy Adams extremely whiny and annoying) and he PROPOSES to her…. barf.  Really Hollywood?

CONCLUSION: Leap Year is at times surprisingly funny and mostly “cute” (minus the parts where cute is nauseating) but do wait till it comes out in DVD and you’re snowed in to watch this.