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ORIGINAL: Emyr Thy King

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ORIGINAL: BOHEMIANBOB

There is no Cardiff in this film

There is no spoon...no wait:

YouTube

Check the 40 seconds mark.

"We're diverting to Cardiff, Wales"

"Wales?!"

Haha.

I know love but there's more here than wooden love spoons, male voice choirs and green valleys.

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ORIGINAL: BOHEMIANBOB

Just to elaborate-if you are going to Dublin from Cardiff,and end up in Dingle,you are in a shit film that deserves no analyis
But Amy

You should at least give me a précis! I love her 'orgasm' face in the trailer (0:15 mark).

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Any amount of shame is worth it for the lovely Miss Adams (1).

1. Isn't she married? So it should be 'Mrs' but she's kept her maiden/stage name though.

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ORIGINAL: Emyr Thy King

Any amount of shame is worth it for the lovely Miss Adams (1).

1. Isn't she married? So it should be 'Mrs' but she's kept her maiden/stage name though.

Amy Adams is married, but has kept her maiden name.

I had the misfortune to watch Leap Year as a compromise. My wife is a sucker for romcoms so this was what I had to sit through in order to see State Of Play (which is great, btw).

Leap Year is a film so bad that, in terms of depictions of Ireland, it makes PS I Love You look like The Magdalene Sisters. It's so bad that even though Matthew Goode knew the script was rubbish, he admitted he only made it for the money, and also because it meant he'd be able to go home at the weekends to see his newborn daughter! It's dull, predictable, utterly awful and actually offensive in its awful cliched vision of Ireland:

- The notion that all civilisation and culture in Ireland ends at Dublin city limits.
- The suggestion that all rural Irish people are feckless simpletons, drunks, criminals, or superstitious buffoons. 
- The assumption that diddly dee folk music is the only music performed in Ireland.
- The suggestion that phones don't work, or that public transport just doesn't happen at the weekends.
- The suggestion that the country is so wild, huge and remote that it takes days to get from Dingle to Dublin, encountering apparently only one car and van on the way.

As Catherine Tate's Nan would say, "what a load of old shite". I'm from Northern Ireland rather than the Republic, but I was amazed at the sheer amount of lazy stereotyping at work in this film. That aside, the only vaguely redeeming feature of Leap Year is Amy Adams, who surely must've lost the plot if she thought that this bilge would be a good career move.