Leap Year may swing round every four years, but romcoms where a haughty control freakette gets a lesson in romantic humility from a scruffily handsome blue-collar boor seem to fire up around here as regularly as the one o'clock gun. Amy Adams plays a materialistic go-getter who decides to surprise her officious prig of a boyfriend by flying to Dublin and proposing to him on 29 February. Blown off-course, she ends up in an "oirish" backwater in need of a lift, and the only man in Eire with a car appears to be Matthew Goode.

From here on their itinerary will include bickering, a woman falling over a lot, a drunk scene and much, much less. Our stars take three days to make the four-hour journey from Dingle to Dublin, but time hangs so heavy it feels like four years.

By SIOBHAN SYNNOT