They say that the quickest way to a man's heart is through his stomach...well that is absolutely true and after watching this movie it's even more so. I guess the best way to describe Julie & Julia is that it was cute. We have the always amazing Meryl Streep playing the obnoxious real life cook, Julia Child and Amy Adams playing a woman by the name of Julie Powell. Julia Child wrote a book "Mastering the Art of French Cooking" and Julie Powell cooked every receipt in that book...and there lies the premise of the movie. We got to see how Julia Child's rise to fame as a popular chef and how her book came to fruition and we saw from Julie Powell the rigor of cooking those 524 receipts in 365 days. The 2 stories were going on concurrently, one with each character, and they flipped back and forth for the two hour run time but something was ultimately missing for me.
I don't know if I just didn't get the movie or if I didn't understand the character of Julia Child but I found myself becoming very annoyed with Meryl Streep's portrayal of Julia Child. I know in real life she was a rather eccentric lady but man o man was she annoying. The supporting characters were very lackluster, the ending was extremely anticlimactic, and the movie seemed to go on for days and days and days. I love food so in that respect the movie was great but I don't think I would subject myself to seeing it again and for that reason I would give Julie & Julia a C.
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this is more or less a suggestion, if you see a movie with someone for example with kate, you should get whoever you are with opinion kind of like a 2nd persons perpective or as a guest critic.
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