Like most formulaic romantic comedies, it is easy to guess the basic plot of Leap Year. Boy meets girl, they run into difficulties, but in the end of the story the boy and girl end up together for their happily ever after. But isn’t it nice to have that security of knowing the ending is going to be a good one? For me, knowing the formula does not make the movie any less fun, and Leap Year provided plenty of the laughs and touchy-feely moments that I expected.
Control freak, American Anna paired with go-with-the-flow, Irish Declan immediately dislike each other upon introduction, making an excellent “opposites attract” pair. The relationship that builds throughout a series of hilariously unfortunate events seems to come as a surprise to the characters, but not the audience. It felt predictably right seeing Anna and Declan together in the end, with the complications of other love interests and emotional walls having melted away.
Overall, Leap Year provides that good ole security blanket feeling that that is warm and fuzzy.
Nic says:
I couldn’t agree more. What attracts us to Leap Year is not the suspense of will she or won’t she end up with Mr. Right? What we go to see is how she ends up with him. The movie takes us through a series of unfortunate events, some even Murphy’s Law would have trouble believing; such as Anna trying to charge her Blackberry and short-circuiting an entire village (really?). However, my favorite part of this film is Declan’s epiphany-inspiring moment to Anna: “If your home was on fire, and you only had 60 seconds, what would you save?”
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