Why the hell did my wife and I watch Leap Year? Morbid curiosity? We shut off the cable and wondered if it could be worse than most of that crap that we watched? In the interest of familiarity, it follows Amy Adams, Matthew Goode, and Louis Vuitton The Suitcase on an impossibly long journey across Ireland so that Anna (Adams) can propose to her boyfriend on Leap Day (an old Irish folk tradition).

I won't argue the coincidental nature of a dashing ruffian Irish chef happening to be available as a taxi driver in the tiny village Anna finds herself in. You throw out coincidences, and you throw out most movies, since that literally describes crossing of paths. I will argue that this movie was composed to be a perfect fit as a Lifetime Saturday Matinee. Transitions even quick-fade to black like a commercial is about to pop up.

The poster, marketing, and everything is aimed at American women of some Irish descent who identify as "Irish", are obsessed with Cladegh rings, are probably Catholic (lapsed or not), and obsessed with nuclear family values. The three stars make the most they can of the material (admittedly not much),including "Louis" the suitcase. I hope they got a big fat pile of money from Louis Vuitton for product placement, since the repeated brand-dropping is more prevalent than a believable plot or characters to speak of. The Blu-ray tellingly only includes seven minutes of deleted scenes in the extras. The movie bombed hard, and on top of that, everyone involved seemed to be fully cognizant that they were in MadLibs: The Movie (Romantic Comedy Edition!). And, SPOILER ALERT: They spoil the end of the movie in the photos on the back of the case and the clips in the menu, and on top of that, when Anna walked up to a cliff at the end, I kind of hoped she would jump and make the movie somehow memorable rather than execrable.