Cinemas - Film of the Week - 25/2/10

Feb 25 2010 Runcorn and Widnes Weekly News

LEAP YEAR (PG)

THE luck of the Irish runs out for one hopeless romantic in Anand Tucker’s implausible comedy, so it does, to be sure, to be sure.

Promoting a stereotypical image of rural Ireland which would make Father Ted and his flock roll their eyes in disbelief and shout, ‘Begorrah!’, Leap Year is a sappy road movie that clearly signposts every tiny pothole in the path to true love.

Timed for release, predictably, at the end of February, Anand Tucker’s jaunt across the Emerald Isle brings together two strangers on a hare-brained adventure that ultimately brings them together.

To say the lead characters are an unlikely match would be an understatement: She’s a fiercely independent interior designer from Boston with money to burn; he’s a lackadaisical chef from the nether regions of Ireland, about to lose his pub to the debt collectors.

Never the twain shall meet, except in the screenplay by Deborah Kaplan and Harry Elfont, they must.

The eejits.

H