This picture presents the parallel biographies of Julia Child (Meryl Streep) and a blogger (Amy Adams) who decides to cook every dish in Child’s groundbreaking French cuisine cookbook within the course of a single year. The Child segments are entertaining, but I can’t help but feel that Streep’s portrayal of the woman as a happy-go-lucky dingbat with occasional recourse to the same sort of mugging employed by Joan Cusack in Addams Family Values sells the subject short. The blog stuff comes across as a blend of clever idea, What-Would-Julia-Do obsession, and get-me-out-of-my-cube-job gimmick, so it’s likewise entertaining but not much more. Mildly amusing
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