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256 of 299 people found the following review helpful.
Five Stars for Film, No Stars for DVD Special Features Manipulation
By IVE
Well, I guess it’s finally happened…the consumer and film buff who does not own a Blue-Ray compatible DVD player is now officially SOL. The standard DVD release of Julie and Julia contains as special features only a commentary track and behind-the-scenes featurette. To get the full array of special features, one must purchase the Blue-Ray version of the film, AND of course, a Blue-Ray dvd player. Here are the features NOT available on the standard dvd: tour of Julia Child’s kitchen in the Smithsonian; featurette “Friends and Family Remember Julia Child;” and “Cooking Lessons,” with Julia Child, Jacques Pepin, and other renowned chefs preparing several of Julia Child’s best-loved dishes. Why can’t the studio release a two-disc special edition in the standard format for consumers like me who don’t own the latest home entertainment equipment? I loved the film (especially The Divine Ms. Streep), loved Julia Child’s book “My Life in France,” very much liked Julie Powell’s book “J & J,” and can’t tell you how much I’ve been looking forward to owning the DVD. I’m miffed, and in no position to go out and buy myself a new DVD player in this economy, not even at Christmas. This really stinks. So, five stars for the film itself, no stars for the DVD release manipulation.

93 of 113 people found the following review helpful.
Behind Every Great Woman There Stands a Great Man . . .
By Diana F. Von Behren
What in the world does television and concocting-French-food-in-America pioneer Julia Child have in common with just 30-something government employee turned food blogger, Julie Powell?Other than the love of food, oodles of butter and a big project to fill the need for purpose, the two main characters in Nora Ephron’s biopic, “Julie and Julia” share great marriages with men that are not put off by their mate’s desire for self-identity defined by more than a few little bouts of self-absorption. Like a good soufflé, Ephron folds the stories told in two books, Powell’s “Julie and Julia: My Year of Cooking Dangerously” and Child’s “My Life in France” without deflating the overall mixture, although this reviewer would have enjoyed more scenes with the wonderfully talented Meryl Streep who redeems herself quite well (all high-pitched voice, champagne bubbly laughter and squared shoulders) as the indomitable and effusive Julia from her most un-defining role as Donna in that “Mamma Mia! The Movie (Widescreen)” debacle.Ephron depicts 1950s Paris with a foodie’s appreciation for what that city did and still does for the world of cuisine–from the very first glimpse of Julia’s luncheon of sole meunière–the waiter delectably filets the fish’s sumptuous flesh tableside to the audiences’ very audible groans of anticipation of and appreciation for its buttery taste, but she also does well by Long Island City and its tangle of grey-tinged tenements, elevated trains and apartments over pizza parlors. Somehow, both Julie and Julia know where to get their ingredients and manage beat, chop (extremely amusing is a scene of Julia alongside a mountain of practice cut onions) and coerce calf’s feet, lobsters and ducks into exquisite works of edible art. The luscious chocolate cakes, whipped creams and raspberry mousse tantalizes like the food porn that it is–a sensual and lascivious reminder to what is truly important in life–you will leave the theater hungry.Along that line, the two couples, Paul (Stanley Tucci) and Julia and Eric (Chris Messina) and Julie either act as the aphrodisiacs for the food or allow the food to whisk them away in the general direction of the bedroom where dessert or in some cases appetizers segue into the joy of sex and more sex–no wonder Julia was always smiling. Both male characters offer their women encouragement along the lines of the supporting architectural buttresses on the Cathedral of Notre Dame even when faced by what may seem a bit of an “I Love Lucy” type scheme. Regardless, both these ladies made their ideas work whether by design or serendipity and Ephron, wisely asserts that it is their good marriages that deserve the credit–even though the real life Powell has an affair which she chronicles in her not-yet-published memoir about learning the art of the butcher.Amy Adams’ portrayal of Julie Powell seems a little seeped in too much sugar especially if one has read the Julie/Julia Project blog or the book that bears the same name as the film. In her version, Ephron sanitizes the conservative-hating Powell, cleans up her apartment, washes out her rather profane mouth and thankfully eliminates the girlfriend dramas that take up a third of the memoir. However, the slim-figured Adams’ whose character claims to have gained weight after a year of rich French cuisine simply seems slim and still glows with that Giselle insouciance and naiveté she did so well in the Disney film “Enchanted (Widescreen Edition).” Even so, Adams’ innate cuteness and 20-something sense of searching works adequately as a foil for the larger than life Streep as the formidable Child.Bottom Line? Nora Ephron’s “Julie and Julia” chronicles the projects of two women from two very different generations with similar needs. As a combination foodie/chick flick, it works very well in its depiction of determination and the power of a slow and steady perseverance that ultimately leads to success. However, “Julie and Julia” main thrust seems to be a tribute to good marriages where behind every great women stands an equally great and supportive male. Recommended.Diana Faillace Von Behren”reneofc”

15 of 17 people found the following review helpful.
A far better film than a book.
By Graves
All too often when a well loved book is turned into a film, fans of the book bemoan how the director or the screen writer got it wrong and all the wonderful things the book had that got lost on the way to the screen. And then you get the rare case when the film is so much better than the book that you wonder if you’ll ever bother to look at the book again. “Julie & Julia” with Meryl Streep and Amy Adams is one of those films.Based on Julie Powell’s blog, a New York office drone, dreading the approach of the Big 3-0, breaks out of her life by attempting to go through every recipe in the first volume of Julia Child’s “Mastering the Art of French Cooking” in one year. While the book focuses almost exclusively on Julie Powell in her Queens apartment, the film splits time equally between Amy Adams’ Julie on her epic food quest and Meryl Streep as Julia Child in post war France, who takes cooking lessons as a way to break up the boredom of her day waiting for her husband to come home.Each actress dominates each scene she is in with a sense of life and energy. A lot of fuss is made over Streep’s portrayal of Child as she goes from chopping her first onion, literally, to getting her cook book published. But equally important to the film is Adams as Powell, the woman who never finishes anything, determinedly holding on to her self appointed project and this is the driving energy behind the film. As much as Streep pours energy and life into her version of Child, we know she makes it, we know she becomes the Grand Dame of TV chefs. On some level we know Powell success too but for her it is less a quest to be published than to finish the journey of self discovery she has set herself on. Streep shows us how Child started out, we know what she becomes. Adams’ Powell brings us along to find out what she will become.In the book Powell is following Child’s direction from the cookbook but is not a particular devote. By comparison in the film Adams’ portrayal has her ready to quote Child on any number of topics and this creates the link between the two women the audience needs.In the book Powell brings a lot of personal baggage that gets old fast, the film ignores this and focuses on what the women have in common. It doesn’t talk down to the audience but lets you follow along through cooking, supportive husbands and love. Not just the love of a good meal, but the sort that encourages you to grow and be more than you were. This isn’t a film just for foodies, but for people who dare to act on a dream, or think they might. Oh and for record, I haven’t deboned a whole duck…yet.

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