Amy Adams Regrettably in New 'Leap Year' Trailer

Almost without fail, it's a bad sign if a gag from your movie is recognizable as the same thing they tried to do in the Ashton Kutcher-Brittany Murphy flick, She's Loony and He Created Punk'd. Wait...Just Married - that's what it's called. It's an even worse sign when it's an Amy Adams movie that's riffing on Just Married, because she doesn't have to resort to this kind of nonsense. In the trailer for the new romantic comedy Leap Year, there's a direct lift of that previous rom-com, not that the trailer showed a lot of promise up to that point. In Just Married, Murphy plugs in a hair dryer or some other small electronic, and the power goes out in the couple's quaint bed and breakfast. It may have actually caused a fire. In Leap Year, the power throughout an entire village goes out when Adams attempts to charge her phone.
Trailer courtesy of Trailer Addict For Adams' sake, I hope the pay day is good. She might actually drum up pretty good business for this, but if that's true, it would be because Amy Adams is in it and not because she slides down a hill in Ireland. So, you know, keep doing better movies. I guess it goes without saying that this will be an early January release, right? Yeah, January 8th. Can it be worse than Bride Wars? Probably not, but it doesn't look a whole lot better.

Comments

[Vince]

Well, it doesn't look too offensive or anything (I did laugh at the wedding hijinks- spilling on the white dress & such), although it's super predictable I'm sure, as well as literally stealing bits from other movies (the whole "show us a real kiss" was most recently in "The Proposal").

But...I can watch Amy Adams in absolutely anything. Even when she's in a weak movie ("Sunshine Cleaning" IMO) or her character is obnoxious (her "Julie" to Streep's fantastic "Julia"), she's still often comes across as sweet, funny, and likable.

Needless to say, if a girl forced me to see either this or the horrendous piece of junk that will be "When in Rome"...it's a no brainer.

[Get The Big Picture]

Good catch on The Proposal. I actually exclude that from the discussion of bad romantic comedies, so maybe that's why I whiffed on it completely.

I can watch Amy Adams read the phone book for two hours. She just has so much natural believability. Not too many like her, and I think it helped that she wasn't famous at a young age. She got to develop, and now she's a real pro. I get why actors do crap like this, but usually they don't have any choice. And as much as I like Kristen Bell, I'd take this one, too, over When in Rome.

[MRPigg]

Maybe it will be okay, it took a full two minutes to get to the other sure sign of a bad movie: head trauma in the trailer.

[anybody]

I've seen worse... at least she's good, matt goode can be as well (I'm looking forward to catching Tom Ford's A Single Man) and Adam Scott is funny as a dickhead in StepBrothers and as the laid-back lead on Party Down. Not saying I'll rush to the theaters or video store for this one, but like I said, I've sure seen worse.

[ummm]

you guys are being a little harsh on romcoms, its a genre like any other...like in a biopic when the central character gets empowering advice from a stranger that changes the way they look at life or a scary movie when the killer is stalking the victim but the victim is unaware...everythings been done it's about putting a nuance on it and making it fresh.