Leap Year
Universal Pictures | Release Date: January 8, 2010 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
33
METASCORE
Generally unfavorable reviews based on 30 Critic Reviews
Positive:
3
Mixed:
14
Negative:
13
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Critic Reviews

Critic scorePublicationBy date
75
Chicago Sun-TimesRoger Ebert
This is a full-bore, PG-rated, sweet rom-com. It sticks to the track, makes all the scheduled stops and bears us triumphantly to the station. And it is populated by colorful characters, but then, when was the last time you saw a boring Irishman in a movie? Read full review
67
Entertainment WeeklyOwen Gleiberman
Leap Year could have used more pizzazz. Read full review
63
New Orleans Times-PicayuneMike Scott
Fortunately, there's enough charisma in those doe eyes -- to narrowly rescue the featherweight Leap Year from becoming a full-blown case of Erin-go-blah. Read full review
58
Christian Science MonitorPeter Rainer
Amy Adams is such a likable actress that she makes the romantic comedy Leap Year worth watching even though we’ve seen it all before. Read full review
50
Arizona RepublicBill Goodykoontz
A by-the-numbers romantic comedy as predictable as it is cloying. Read full review
50
ReelViewsJames Berardinelli
We believe the dislike at the onset but not the romance at the payoff. And that's a major flaw. Read full review
50
Chicago ReaderCliff Doerksen
As modern rom-coms go, this is trite but relatively painless. Read full review
50
Philadelphia InquirerCarrie Rickey
Usually Amy Adams can work all kinds of magic with her wide-eyed gaze and wistful smile. But these attributes aren't assets here, they are distancing devices. Read full review
50
USA TodayClaudia Puig
Where it should be light and graceful, Leap Year trips and thuds. Read full review
50
San Francisco ChronicleMick LaSalle
Virtually every word and plot turn is insincere, manufactured, unfelt and dishonest, and its portrayal of people demonstrates either an ignorance of human behavior or a disdain for truth. Read full review
50
Orlando SentinelRoger Moore
The "Made of Honor" screenwriters don't deliver enough jokes or feisty exchanges between the ill-matched traveling companions. Read full review
50
St. Louis Post-DispatchCalvin Wilson
In Hollywood, it’s all about the concept, and some studio executive must have thought it would be fun to watch Adams slogging around in the Irish mud. Unfortunately, there’s no accounting for taste. Read full review
42
The A.V. ClubNathan Rabin
There isn’t a spontaneous or unpredictable moment in this loving, perversely reverent homage to rom-com, road-movie, and mismatched-romance conventions. Read full review
40
Village VoiceBrian Miller
Leap Year belongs to the Prada backlash subgenre of women's pictures--epitomized by "The Proposal"--in which smart, stylish women must be muddied, abased, ridiculed, and degraded in order to get their man. Read full review
40
VarietyDennis Harvey
Pleasant enough overall, if also somewhat gratingly old-fashioned. Read full review
40
The Hollywood ReporterMichael Rechtshaffen
An uneven romantic comedy that feels as fresh as a hunk of week-old soda bread. Read full review
40
Boxoffice MagazineMark Keizer
Nobody here brings their A-game, denying us the pleasure of what Adams and director Anand Tucker could create together. Read full review
38
Chicago TribuneMichael Phillips
The scenery's nice. But once you've said the scenery's nice, you're no longer talking about a movie worth talking about. Read full review
38
Boston GlobeWesley Morris
It’s unclear what Amy Adams did to deserve Leap Year, but all that’s missing from the movie is a set of jailhouse bars over her scenes. Read full review
38
New York PostLou Lumenick
Rent "Enchanted" with Adams, and watch Goode as Colin Firth's boyfriend in his other current movie, "A Single Man." Read full review
30
SalonStephanie Zacharek
If only Leap Year were an anomaly, the kind of picture that comes along only once every four years. Instead, it's yet more evidence that romantic comedies are only getting worse. Read full review
30
TimeRichard Corliss
Mostly awful. Read full review
25
Miami HeraldConnie Ogle
Rich in cliché and brimming with the sort of potent idiocy that can only be found in January-release romantic comedies, Leap Year manages to do every possible thing wrong. Read full review
25
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)Liam Lacey
At least Adams and Goode are always watchable, even when you occasionally feel embarrassed for them. Read full review
20
New York Daily NewsElizabeth Weitzman
On the plus side, the Irish landscape is gorgeous, and Scott and John Lithgow are amusing in small roles. But Goode barely makes an effort, so Adams' frantic exertions feel especially disheartening Read full review
20
Time OutAaron Hillis
Why, pray tell, do we not get a four-year break between generic, charmless and sexist rom-coms like this on our side of the pond? Read full review
20
EmpireAnna Smith
Rubbish. Irish eyes will be hard pressed to grimace, let alone smile. Read full review
12
Washington PostStaff (Not credited)
A retread of just about every rom-com cliche ever turned. Read full review
10
The New York TimesA.O. Scott
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. Read full review
0
Austin ChronicleMarc Savlov
This film is unquestionably the most unromantic and downright despairing romcom since "Made of Honor" or, possibly, "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" Read full review
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