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Title: Julie & Julia
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Parents aside from a dropped 'f bomb' and a couple other dirty words there isn't much here to concern yourself with. It's about cooking. Not dirty cooking, just straight up cooking. Recommended for ages 12 and up. |
The advantages with Nora Ephron's "Julie & Julia" is that it has a winning cast of actors, the subject is not terribly predictable, and it makes you smile a lot. The big drawbacks to this film is that it is essentially two movies in one, one of the storylines isn't as interesting as the other, and that makes it one film too many. On one hand we have the storyline of Julia Child (Meryl Streep) living in France, taking cooking classes, and writing what would become the book that would define her career. This, like most biograpy storylines, is pretty interesting. Even more so this time around because Julia makes for an intriquing person as she is. At over six feet and not too attractive, she makes for an interesting screen pressence because she doesn't follow the mold we expect from our leading ladies.
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The other movie is about Julie Powell (Amy Adams) who decides one day to start a blog and write about her making all of Julia Child's recepiets in a year. Her reason for this is out of a frustration that she's always starting goals but never finishing them, so she puts herself on a rigerous deadline for this project. Her husband Eric (Chris Messina) supports her, but starts to get confused about why the project is so important. His wifes neroutic breakdowns over not cooking fast enough even gets him to walk out on her at one point. It's this movie that started to get on my nerves at times. While Julia's ambitions are unrealistic you can see why she would strive for them (getting published can be a big deal sometimes). Julie's ambitions are a bit more vague in importance, and it makes you wonder sometimes why she stresses so much.
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Also, in an ironic twist, the roles are reversed for the men. Julia's husband Paul (Stanley Tucci) is a supportive husband with the heart of a saint. He can be dull sometimes, but we like him. Now Eric is another story altogether. While supportive of his wife he has concerns about her little cooking obsession and makes his feelings well known. The irony is that while it seems like you should be able to guess who's the more interesting character it's...well, I'll let you discover that for yourself. What does work though is that the movie has a lot of heart and laughs in it. It's simple, yes, but it's also not dumb. It's one of those feel-good movies where logic doesn't become a problem until analysis comes after the film is done. This is likely to become a favorite for "Girls Nights Out" over the month. Good for them. I just recommend having diner before hand.
P.S. Though the idea of Julie Powell seems asinine and pointless in this movie, she never-the-less has inspired me to work on a project of my Oscar blog. On my blog I will be analysing all the Oscar-winning movies and then compiling those reviews in a book (the book will have extra features not shown online). Click here , the project starts 9-9-09.
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