Bad Movie Beatdown: Leap Year (REVIEW) 

Oh no, Disposable Fiancee saved the computers which probably have vital work-related stuff on them because everything is kept on computers these days. It's not as if he might have needed the files on there for this job!

Now come on, Matthew. The Lucky Charms cereal box is way more faithful to Ireland than this movie.

I don't get why these romcoms has to be repetitive on 90's slap-slap-kiss relationship. A boy and girl first met hate each other for no reason. Years later they suddenly love each other. I thought anime has the worst Tsunderes...

17:57 Especially in a country where people recently voted in favor of equal marriage rights. Would have been a fun scene to have that lady be visited by a same sex couple and she would have been completely okay just insisting they sleep separately until married. Would have been little different and interesting mix of liberal and conservative values.

Does the creator of this movie not know that Cork is the Silicon Valley of the British Isles? Ireland is a tad more technologically advanced than what this movie make it out to be.

No, you're not experiencing deja vu, this was up earlier, but someone pointed out that I'd mixed up Declan's name in a few instances (my fault at the scripting stage, I'd somehow put 'Duncan' at several points) and went back to correct them. Alas that means the comments from the earlier version are now lost, so if you want to repost your comments, you're welcome to do so. Apologies again!

Every time Film Brain uploads, my day get x1000 times better. Especially when it's a BMB.

17:32 Apparently, in this parallel dimension, b'n'b' owners are so rich that they can just turn away potential paying customers for no real reason.

if we were to go buy romance movie logic: any one youve been dating for an extended period is actually a bad person, you should definitely break up with whoever your with to marry someone youve met within the last month OR someone you grew up knowing but lost touch with. and youre a bad person.

Well you know what they say, Matthew, "Faith can move mountains, but shitty scripts can fuck with geography"

This movie doesn't even know how cows work. I went to a farm this past December that contained several fields/pens of cows, and I had hoped to get close enough to pet them. Nope. Unless they are already familiar with you, a cow won't let you get close enough to pet them. In fact, they will actively back away on sight. So there shouldn't have been an issue with the main character needing so shoo away cows in the road-- they would've taken off on their own the minute they saw her coming toward them.

7:00 "We're buying this apartment, and it's perfect - I know how I'm going to change it." So it's not perfect, then. :-P

Someone on IMDB claims that this is a remake of the 1945 film I Know Where I'm Going. Too many differences: the woman's already engaged to be married to her rather-older boss on a Scots island, and gets stuck on another island by weather and meets an impoverished laird. Also it's by all accounts a fine film...

"Kiss the girl" - much better when Sebastian sang it in The Little Mermaid.

.....Did - did the writers never even visit Ireland? I've only been to Ireland once but even I know everything in this movie is wrong even without you pointing it out.

I’m Irish and I would NEVER do anything to MY chickens like this! And that bit is already reminding me of my brother how he treats chickens.😡

best ending ever... she jumps before he gets the ring and then it ends on that note hah

Definitely a film not forgotten here in Ireland, with so many geographical errors and backward twee presentation. So glad you displayed all the location errors on a map, especially since you would think that location filming would have given the filmmakers a bit of sense, the Irish would (and indeed do) hate this choice to have random shots with no connection. I am pretty sure one of our Irish Times reviewers did claim it to be a cultural insult at the time funny enough.

And the lesson to be learned here: if you want a good Irish movie that has some to do with romance, just watch Sing Street instead.

I tried to watch this movie once, and I couldn't. I quit around the bar fight scene, because nothing says hilarity like sexually harassing a woman in public while everyone laughs. It's a comedy!

So many Irish stereotypes that you should have forced Diamanda watch this with you. ; )

I've actually been to Dingle and, though not a big town, is much larger, busier and more technologically advanced than this film will have you believe.

I feel bad for the person who was born in a leap year. They only get a birthday every 4 years, and yet age the same way as everyone else.

I discovered Film Brain with Bad Movie Beatdown and that is what I enjoy the most of his work. The more irritated he is at a movie the better it gets.

Jesus Christ, I'm not even Irish and I'd be offended by this movie.

Also, I've been checking out a few of these beatdown vids and while I don't agre with everything. I really liked this one. The film was obviously a landscape showcase to "show off" Ireland but your constant pointing out to the geographical anachronisms made the whole episode hilarious.

This would have been better if they were being harassed by Warwick Davis's leprechaun.

For a film set in Ireland, this film seems to have a pretty big problem with the Irish.

"No wonder you through up at the thought of kissing him." I rewatched this video, just to hear that line.

The filmmakers seem to think that Ireland is a barren Third World country.

The way Film Brain feels about this movie is same way I feel about Night of the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian (also with Amy Adams), messing up the geography of the Smithsonian.

I forgot this movie ever even existed.

it cant be the worst film of 2010, the last airbender came out that year

This movie sure does suck, but damn, Matthew Goode is still a fine-looking man!

It's funny to think Matthew Goode was considered to play Superman in Man Of Steel. In an alt universe we could be looking at Lois and Clark.

The reason their short trip across Ireland took several days is because since our country is so damn big, when Americans think about cross-country road trips, we time our journeys in terms of days, not hours. We tend to forget that most European countries are the size of American states, and the writers didn't factor the scale difference into account.

4:37 - 4:53 - As they say in Paddy's Pub: "Shut up, bird."

Leap Year: Middle Earth

Does Adam Scott ever NOT play a character who's personality is "smarm"?

I'm gonna go on a leap (year) and say that the creators PROBABLY didn't do enough research on Ireland.

Too bad it wasn't a horror movie. There are a few fun people here who could make a good death scene.

I agree with you on Matthew Goode's Irish accent in this. Dear god its worse than Ralph Fiennes American accent in Maid In Mahattan. And both Fiennes and Goode are British.

I'll stick with Jacksepticeye for my daily dose of Irish.

This movie makes Father Ted look like an anthropological study of Ireland

Being Irish I can safely say this movie is adorably awful!

The fucker killed a chicken just like that. Okay did he ask the owner if he can take one and put it in a pot or just arrogantly assume he can? Because people don't like when their livestock is killed without a permit. Even if they aren't emotionally attached to them.

Looking up Saint Brigid, there's a theory that she was a local goddess who later got turned into a saint. Where's THAT romcom?! I wanna' see a romance between an Irish goddess and a Catholic missionary!

If Declan didn't put the parking brake on, what was stopping the car from rolling down the hill in the first place?

When I was in high school, me and my best friend would watch shit romcoms whenever we had a sleepover. This movie was pretty much perpetually on OnDemand, but we never ended up watching it for whatever reason. Can't tell if we missed out on a riff-fest, or dodged a cringe bullet.

This movie was recommended to me by a work friend. I didn't have the heart to tell her I thought it was boring.

The Starz network ran this ad nauseam a few months back. I kept coming upon the chicken scene while channel surfing and thought it was a dark suspense film. Goode's expression was so macabre I thought he was playing a serial killer. Turns out he probably just didn't like the role. All the film was missing was that Touched By An Angel lady and the sound of wolves baying at the moon to complete the stereotypes.

You've been my favorite reviewer for many years, and I am so glad you have continued the BMB series..

I'm not sure why the pretence was needed at the BnB. There are a number of ways in which people travel in groups, surely they would have a room with multiple beds or even (gasp) separate rooms to cater to non couples?

4 years later, this airs on RTE one. The Irish national broadcaster showed this this evening. Oh dear

You know what you should do? Leave your whole life behind so that you could be with a broke dude who owns a bar that's been successful for a whole of two days with so much issues one therapist isn't enough. Oh and you've known him for less than a week. YAY!

Film Brain: There's no need to jump Me: I'm from the future Amy you're gonna be in Man Of Steel & Batman V Superman.......JUMP!!!

'The room she's offered is a shoebox' Actually that room looks more comfortable than the one I paid good money for in college

I own this on DVD HAHA. My cousin's boyfriend is the dead ringer of Matthew Goode. I loved Amy Adams since Enchanted. The first time I seen this film I hated it,then I seen it the second time and surprisingly I enjoyed it.

Couldn't they have just gotten an Irish lead? I'm sure there were more to choose from than just Colin Farrell.

A lot of inaccuracies on the locations they have chosen. It's nice that you really pointed out those flaws. :D

8:36 As Theresa May is constantly reminding us, there’s technically no border control between The UK and Ireland, so she’s not smuggling herself into the country.

Jesus Christ, this has a 6.5 on IMDB with glowing reviews from some people. "Delightfully innocent and sweet" - 10/10 "Most fun I've had at a theater in quite a while" - 9/10 "An absolute delight" - 10/10 What the actual fuck? This movie is simply textbook by the numbers shit. Woman needs to get somewhere, can't, is aided by someone she doesn't get along with but by happenstance, they suddenly fall in love. We've seen this plot a million times. lmgtfy.com/?q=movie+where+boy+and+girl+hate+each+other+then+fall+in+love I'd also like to know what's up with Matthew Goode's accent? It's all over the place. And that old guy demanding that they kiss? Dude, not to kink shame but get your frills elsewhere.

So, wait a minute, a movie where the premise is all about an Irish tradition where the women propose instead of the men, and both proposals in the movie show the men proposing to Amy Adams?

This sounds like an unofficial remake of I Know Where I'm Going. But way, way more contrived. Thank you for taking on films like this. It may help get back good romantic comedies. Some day...

Adam Scott? No wonder Krampus went after him.

This movie must be a lot of fun to riff with an Irishman.

I think this movie assumes Ireland is about the size of Rhode Island. You can just get to anywhere in only a couple hours. Great review, Film Brain. Good to see another BMB again. :)

And ride that storm as far as Dingle, on the extreme west coast, than Cork which a) they pass on the way to Dingle, b) is a sheltered harbour and c) is where they're being paid to go. Of course the simple fact of the matter is if you're taking a ship from south Wales to Ireland, you're landing in Rosslare, Co Wexford on the south-eastern corner of the country. Arrrgh, the stupid, it burns. Oh and PS, the cliffs of Moher aren't in Dingle.

Wow, this was published on my Birthday.

16:12 was anyone else expecting to see a dragon flying around?

Mathew is amazing! Love bad movie beat down and projector. How can I get into doing film reviews?

And she doesn't even propose. Wasn't that supposed to be part of the story? That the woman proposes on the 29th of February?

Ya. I new Bad Movie Beatdown. For a while I figured you had mostly decided to retire from doing movie reviews aside from holiday specials.

I hope you review Hangover III some day

OK, quite honestly, I still want to watch this movie sometime. There's a certain Beauty and the Beast quality that I like and I like quest stories. However, after Enchanted, it's really hard seeing Amy A in these shrill, snobby type roles as if aforementiond movie she was luminescent.

New theme, awesome!

I could remember actually liking this movie, but looking back the only think I was really remembering was the Irish landscape, so...

The Quiet Man is brilliant, indeed!

Thanks for the Irish geography lesson, Matthew !

Corrour station in Scotland is in the middle of the countryside/mountains - it's the one featured in Trainspotting, just ask Geoff Marshall.

Awwww, this movie came out right after I got back from studying abroad in Ireland, so I watched it several times just to see Ireland again, because I missed it so much. Of course, being as I actually went to several of the locations supposedly shown, I knew it was total bullshit, and was actually rather offended on Irelands behalf as it was being portrayed as a land of stereotypes where its still the 1800s, when I knew it wasn't anything like that. So, even though I know the movie sucks, it makes me remember my time in Ireland, which was an amazing time in my life, so I enjoyed this review even more than usual :)

You seeing your BMB reviews all the romcoms you did, it makes me wonder if these filmmakers know anything about romances and how relationships work.

4:37 Shut up, bird!

Love the new intro music!

The most humiliating moment in Amy Adams Carrer

Mat, would you consider reviewing Surviving Christmas this Christmas?

Matt should review "The Boy Next Door" next. It's tailor-made for this show.

I have was wondering if you were going to review batman v superman because saw I think a tweet from you saying you were working on the script?

I think he was more cheesed off than usual with this one. This was one of the funniest ones yet! :) God bless.

yay BMB is back!!

Glad your back,miss your old theme damn copyright

Amy Adams should give me a lapdance

Sweet Dee?! You're too good for this.

Why weren't they flying into Shannon anyway? Every time I've flown to Ireland I've landed in Shannon

The Healy-Raes of Kerry would probably loved this schlock!

Don't you hate when actors you like make shit? I do, kind of pisses me off.

(bows on hands and knees repeatedly)

Nice review, Matthew. Somehow the plot also reminds me of the great movie "It Happened One Night", where also two people who don't like each other pretend to be a married couple. I have been in Ireland a few years ago, also in some of the real places, incorrectly portrayed in the movie. It's a wonderful country. So why do they need to add some cheap and stupid stereotypical clichees into this unfunny and prodictable movie? And why do so many movies have such stupid and too-simple-minded love connections? I don't get it. I remember seing a German musical movie from 2013 where a woman marries a guy she barely knew after 2 days from a place called "Salzkammergut" in Austria. But it was based on a classic play from the 1900s where there were only references to marriage and it was playing on the positive way of creating a world where everything like that is possible and different than in the real world, in that case Berlin, Germany. And the movie adaptation looked like a parody on cheesy "Schlager"-movies. This supposed to be a fantasy world. But here??? No.

If Matthew Goode thought this was a bad job, I wonder what he thinks of The Discovery of Witches 😅

I would imagine being shived by a leprechaun is horrible