I'm sure it was an unforgettable time for Julia Child in France and probably equally unforgettable for Julie Powell when her blog caught on, but Julie & Julia as a movie is quite easily forgotten. After watching Amy Adams in several interesting roles lately, I was surely hoping for more than this ever could deliver.
It's not much of a story, or even worse, two stories. It's got its small moments every now and then, thankfully, as this could easily have been even worse. Still it hardly deserved any movie at all, and that's maybe why we got exactly hardly a movie at all as well.
The acting helps, as I'm quite sure Meryl Streep can't possibly be as annoying as her character. She wouldn't last long in Hollywood if that was the case. Amy Adams does another good performance, but the two leading ladies haven't got much to work with. I think their agents shouldn't be rewarded with salary for 2009, but then again I'm hardly the target audience either. Still find it hard to believe even the target audience remembers much about this movie a week after they've seen it.
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