Undescribable Perfection

Slow pace in the most part of the movie.

Load of rubbish!!

As Good As It Gets

Why its good: Enjoyable plot, watchable at any time, funny at parts, great music and Meryl Streep is great.However, there are some problems: The Julia plotline is a bit too weak to merit as much time as it does. There are one or two periods of very long narration by Julia which verges on annoying due to her over the top nature. Also, disappointing in the sense that the two characters never actually interact which leaves the film feeling more like two seperate films rather than one big work.

The female blogger this story is about is so bland, self-centered and void of any personality or original thought, it is frankly painful to watch. Even though the story was written by herself, she fails to inspire anything but a simmering hatred at the fact that a person can be so self absorbed to waste everyones time with this garbage. This is also not Amy Adams fault, I truly believe she made the character as likable as humanly possible, but frankly, nobody is good enough to manage that.The story about the cookbook author is interesting though, so I suggest skipping to those parts. Meryl Streep is as wonderful as ever.

I liked it, but it was very different from what I had expected, well I don't actually know what I had expected... it was just not that.The two main characters are played by Streep and Adams, they both do a very good job, but my good Streep must have had some problems with her voice at night after shooting a could of scenes on this set. Their husband/boyfriends are played by Tucci and Messina, also they do a good job. Its kind of like the older generation of great actors vs. the new one :)The story is good, long but good, this could have been at least half an hour shorter if that was what the director etc. had gone for. But it wasn't, this film was to show Julies and Julias struggles in their time and their hard work to get appreciated and loved.This movie will tell you a lot about Julia Child and her life, but you still have to buy her book to learn and experience the dishes yourself.

With Food Network playing shows all day about the food industry, travel Chanel basically changing its name to the next Food Network, and food constantly being advertised in our faces, why in the world would we make a another food movie? Two words: Meryl Streep. Yes, that's right, old Meryl is showing the world that she's such an amazing actress and pretends to act humble when really she's just looking for another Oscar nomination. There's no denying the skills of Meryl Streep's acting, or that she has had an impressive career, but enough is enough! We don't care about your lame french accent or about a boring chef who can't cook without butter! Julia Child and Julie Powell - both of whom wrote memoirs - find their lives intertwined. Though separated by time and space, both women are at loose ends... until they discover that with the right combination of passion, fearlessness and butter, anything is possible. Yes, history and modern day have clashed into one mess of a film. Amy Adams is so obnoxious and delivers her worst performance to date as Julie. Usually, Adams is delightful in everything she does. This time around she fails miserably, playing a desperate for attention wannabe who can't find the groove of her terrible character. Streep, like most biographic performances by an actor or actress, is cliché and unimpressive. She tries way to hard and portrays Julia Child as if she were in a cheap commercial for a local french restaurant. With only a two hour long running time, "Julie & Julia" feels longer than a week! It absolutely refuses to make one scene interesting or artistic, returning to the same old biography movie techniques that have been done hundreds of times. And, in all fairness, there's nothing interesting about a chef who made millions by using butter.