Eat Pray Love. I know, I forfeited my manhood for two hours and fifteen minutes. In a nutshell, the story of one crazy woman's mid-life crisis. That's about it. Two and a quarter hours of one woman's struggles to overcome her insecurities interspersed with a lot of pretentious Julia Roberts acting. **Spoiler alert**: the title does let you know EXACTLY what is going to happen in each of the three acts. She eats in Italy, prays in India and loves in Bali....how clever. The most interesting part of the movie takes place in Italy, and it wasn't interesting because of her emotional journey. I am convinced that it is impossible to shoot Italy in a way as to not be appealing and beautiful, I now want to go there. Badly. This movie drags on and on, following this woman on her quest for self acceptance. One question though: how is it, that these people can afford to just take a year "off" to find themselves? In-patient therapy would have been cheaper.
Julia Roberts is, as always, pretentious. No surprise there, eh? Javier Bardem was pretty good in his role as the love interest. This was as far from his turn in No Country For Old Men as he could possibly get. James Franco, Billy Crudup, and Richard Jenkins round out the "difficult men in her life" roles quite nicely.
My wife agreed with me that the main reason I didn't relate to this movie was because of my intimate affiliation with the Y chromosome. I think it's a lot more reasonable explanation that this was not a great movie. I've (mostly unwillingly) seen my fair share of chick flicks, some great, most crap; this falls somewhere in the middle. I found this to be more like: Sit Watch Snooze. 5.5/10
See you tomorrow, and GO WATCH A MOVIE!!
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