You know how it is when you travel back home? You know the point of take-off and you know where you’re going. But it is the journey back to the familiar — the actual journey itself — that can make the difference between the experience being a good one or a bad one. Thus it is with Leap Year, a new romantic comedy starring Amy Adams and Matthew Goode.

Leap Year is the story of Anne, a girl (Adams) who thinks her boyfriend Jeremy (Adam Scott) is going to propose. He does not. He leaves on a business trip to Dublin. Her father (John Lithgow in a cameo so small as to be non-existent) tells her that in Ireland on Leap Year Day, February 29, it is an accepted custom for woman propose to the man she loves. So, Anne decides to go there and propose. What ensues is the usual boy-meets-girl story we follow until the inevitable happy ending.

Now, wait a minute! Just because story’s predictable, does not by any means make it automatically bad. Leap Year takes us on a fun journey. The scenery in Ireland is beautiful and we like the protagonists.

My only quibbles are (1): Didn’t anybody involved ever hear of Sadie Hawkins Day? This Leap Year Day custom was adopted and disseminated in the US by cartoonist Al Capp in L’il Abner (comic, Broadway show, film and through countless summer camps and schools that had Sadie Hawkins Day dances). The surprise with which the news of said custom is received makes one wonder how they could never have known about this. And (2): one also has to ask why Anne, clearly a well-educated and smart woman, says “FebUary,” rather than the correct “FebRUary.” That’s just basic English the wrong pronunciation is jarring.

But that’s small potatoes. The point is that Adams and Goode are charming. Director Anand Tucker unveils no surprises but the film moves briskly and is lovely to look at, so that’s OK. (Perhaps it’s because he’s not an American that he didn’t know about Sadie Hawkins Day. But the Americans in the cast — especially the Harvard-educated Lithgow — should have.)

Should you see Leap Year? Well, if you like this kind of story, if you are susceptible to charming people and scenery then, by all means, do. It’ll warm you up on a cold winter day.