Butter…Everything tastes better with butter. Including, Julie and Julia, a delightful little movie starring Meryl Streep as Julia Child and Amy Adams as Julie Powell. You might think this is a chick flick…and well…maybe it is. But, it’s also a foodie flick. You can probably get over the whiny Julie Powell just to love and live vicariously through Julia Child and her food loving time through Paris. Before you go and get your buttery popcorn, you’ll want to be sure to eat some special brownies or smoke some great weed, because it will only enhance the munchies feeling you would get without doing so. And believe me, you’re going to want that feeling watching all the goodies unfold on big screen in front of you. Just be sure to stock up on all your snacks before you go into the movie or you’ll be even more ravenous when you come out.
Julie and Julia is an interesting romp through two different lives that never intertwine. Julie Powell is a government worker who takes phone calls from people who seem to only want to complain about the new 9/11 monument or talk about their relative who passed away during 9/11. For Julie, it doesn’t seem to be a very fulfilling job. Along with a job that she hates she now has moved to an apartment she despises. The only thing that appears to make Julie happy is cooking.
Julie comes home one day after a lunch with friends and begins complaining about her friend’s blog. How could her friend have a blog that anyone would want to read or care about? Yet, she does. Julie’s husband decides that it would be a perfect time for her to write a blog so Julie creates the Julie/Julia Project.
On the flip side of the movie we are learning to LOVE Meryl Streep as Julia Child. She portrays Julia as the most wonderful, happy, go-lucky person that you just want to be meet and hang out with. You can’t help but be drawn into the incredible foods that this woman creates. How are they not both fat? I haven’t mastered whatever it is they are doing apparently. Anyway, Julie Child doesn’t give a crap about what anyone thinks of her and instead tends to just win people over left and right. Really, the whole movie could have just been about Julie Child and I would have been more than happy.
Unfortunately, the movie is not only about Julie Child. You’re forced to view the Julie Powell bits too. At first it wasn’t so bad, but after 45 minutes of someone who just seems to whine and moan and grown and complain almost constantly it gets a little tiring. Yes, you hate your job. Yes we know you HATE where you live. Yes, you berate the one guy in your life who seems to love you no matter what. And, now you hate whine about having to continue cooking because you set yourself up to do it in a year. OMG….Get over it!
I’m still imploring you to go see the movie just…be aware that there is a nagging female going a little overboard for about half. Don’t take it out on all of us women please. Really, we’re not all like that.
After you’re done with the movie, invite me over for dinner. I’ll be more than happy to come for your Cassoulet of Duck Confit, Toulouse Sausages, and White Beans. Oh and don’t forget the appetizer fois gras! Bon appetite!
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