Review of Leap Year

Leap Year (2010)
8/10
Green is the color of love in Ireland I suppose - and it looks good!
13 April 2014
This is a very good movie for its genre with a good script and good cast. In general of course it was predictable but in details it even had the element of surprise a bit. I would like to see Ireland one day, one of my dreams actually so when I read the plot I thought I should check it out. However I was afraid it was a bad movie since it was down 7 in IMDb rating. But anyways I watched it and - LOVED IT. Amy Adams (some say future Meryl Streep) was absolutely good and their chemistry with Goode was amazing. The Ireland landscape scenes were drop dead beautiful - as expected. The tune of the movie was in harmony with everything in the movie, the music, colors, the staging; everything. And we were not expecting an Oscar movie with this plot so, what was the disappointment that drove this movie under 7 I wondered. When I checked out the reviews I realized it was only down 7 because Irish people (and people around UK) gave it bad points! Why? Because it was inaccurate about ferry times and that amazing landscapes whereabouts, and stereotyping about old Irish folk, and an outside February wedding in Ireland and blah blah blah... Come on! Look, I am from Turkey and I know Hollywood stereotyping really good so, let me tell you something, even if it was stereotyping, it didn't feel like it and we fell in love with Ireland! What's the big deal? The movie put a smile on my (and I believe on many's) face in the end so, it was a good movie hence - recommended for everyone!
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