areatw There isn't much wrong with 'Julie & Julia', but there isn't much going for it either. It's a pleasant yet bland biographical drama film that bores just as much as it entertains. The story is weak and just not interesting enough to be made into a film, though it is partially rescued by Streep and Adams, who bring personality and energy to their roles.As a biographical film, perhaps it would have been a better idea to focus on Julia and give a more detailed account of her life and career. Instead we have two stories running parallel, neither of which are properly explored, and the films suffers for it. Overall, 'Julie and Julia' is a pleasant but bland and uneventful drama.

John Fonte This movie poses a simple question: can an audience member rally behind a spoiled protagonist? What can we tolerate? What can we ignore? What can we forgive?Norma Ephron (that's her name, right?) tests our limits in a movie replete with first world problems. Amy Adams, an elf-boy living in Queens, has a respectable mid-level job, living in her own apartment in the New York City Metro area, surrounded by her supportive friends and co-workers. Of course, having your own life and sharing it with an attractive husband who loves you (and is nauseatingly agreeable) is not enough for her. Rather, she bitches and moans about it, interspersing her temper tantrums with unprovoked emotional breakdowns. "I'm gonna write a blog!," she says. Umm...okay, so do it. What's the antagonist there? Norma Ephron (that's *still* her name, right?) lets you figure that one out; she'll keep the shot on the actors seconds too long for the awkward pauses to set in. She (he?) also loves putting Julia in the center of the frame. Rules of threes, Norma! Without spoilers, let me summarize this movie with one of its quotations by Amy Adams's character: "I'm a bitch. That's me, Sarah - I'm a bitch." Everyone knows it. Everyone acknowledges it. Amy even knows that they know. Yet, no one has the cajones to tell Julie to take a chill pill......because no one cares (which is ironic because the whole point of this movie was that Julie would get people to care about her uneventful life). Even Julia Child called the whole thing a publicity stunt. Julie Powell, if you're reading this, there are easier ways to make friends. Go help out for a charity. Bring a dog to the dog park. Whatever it is, it's easier than getting Norma Ephron (who?) to write a movie about you crying for attention and expect people to watch it.

Yunyun Z Julie and Julia are the two heroes of the movie, but they never meet each other. Food - the love of food - connects their lives. In two eras, the two parallel story lines intersect with Julie's cookery book. There are no ups and downs in the film, but the plain story has the magic to be impressive and memorable. It still inspires me to improve myself even after several years. Julia is a government clerk. Her job is to answer hundreds of phone calls every day. Life is stagnant and boring. The only thing that makes her happy is cooking. She has a great idea: to cook famous TV chef Julia Child's 524 French cuisine recipes in 365 days. The task is not as easy as she imagines. Julia experiences difficulties, failures and almost gives up. However, she persists. Like Julie, a middle age American housewife living in Paris, she never gives up her pursuit of her dreams. Julia succeeds; she and her blog become popular. The real success of her one-year assignment is gaining self-awareness and finding out the meaning of life and love.Julie and Julia's story tells us that nothing is too late. You just need to start and persevere. A small change and challenge will make your life quite different. What are you waiting for? Take action and move nearer to your dreams.

Vessiana Arty Writing a review of a movie like 'Julie and Julia'(2009) is difficult because there aren't many occurrences taking place - the plot is simple and common. It's based on the true stories of two cook - Julie Powel (Amy Adams) and Julia Child (Meril Streep) and I think the feature is interesting by reason of two things: the first is the fact that the success is a book/blog away and the second – the quality of the love between spouses in each of the couples. I have always believed in the good turns maybe because too many bad turns happen as well. Plane crashes, car incidents, people incidents, unexpected betrayals, sinister health diagnosis. And at once we have movies on true stories wherein the main heroes get return for the experienced misfortunes. When read articles on such movies I realized that the plots are often dissimilar than the real lives of the participants and sometimes they are striking changed. Reality is very relative notion and everyone gets it differently even when the persons are at the same place in the same time. Because of that it isn't easy the real events to be reflected, especially in a film. But after all I was very surprised when I heard about the real Julie Powell's marriage problems – a modern woman with ordinary job who makes a cooking blog and has the goal to cook a few hundreds meals for one year using the recipes of the famous chef Julia Child. The feature shows how Julie's husband supports her, also shows his unconditional and infinite love, a lot of good advice and generally he is represented as Mister Right. But it turns out that they both had extramarital relations during the period of their lives produced in the movie and also after that. I have read they are got together several times. This somehow spoiled the romantic impression this movie had left in me. Anyway, Julia is good at cooking, despite some nervous breakdowns, annoying girlfriends, her mother who always has the opposite opinion and the lack of comments on the time she started her blog. No matter what the reality was, she has published best-seller books, there is a movie based on the one of them and, I guess, more many successes I don't know about. What I disliked in the picture is the emphasizing on the love but maybe the authors have wanted to tell that without the support of somebody who loves us we wouldn't be able to represent ourselves before the world successfully. That applies to Julia Child and her husband Paul, too. The two stories of the both women with the same name take place in parallel. I know nothing about the private life of the great cook and have read only few recipes of her book 'Mastering the art of French cooking'. But I have realized her huge efforts to publish it in time of political instability. Of course, when I saw the photos of real Julia she didn't look so beautiful and charming as Meril Streep. Actually, it isn't necessity but thinking about the movie I first remember the actresses and then the real women. 'Julie and Julia' is a movie in which the daydreams come true and it provokes us to believe in our own dreams. The belief in the cinema is an absolutely different topic and it isn't a vital necessity. But the dreams are definitely.