Julie and Julia

I'm not really a chick flick kind of female. And so far, this is not really making me want to see more chick flicks.

My mom wanted to watch "Julie and Julia" and I've just kind of been sitting in the room, sort of watching it. It is an ok movie, not bad but not really amazing either.

It stars Meryl Streep as Julia Childs, a woman who resided in France [her husband worked at the US embassy] and decided to go to Le Cordon Bleu [famous French cooking school]. We catch glimpses of her life in France and dealing with the fact that she could not speak French and was not an expert at cooking as her fellow peers.

And then there is Amy Adams as Julie Powell, a woman who works at a call center, dealing with victims of the September 11th attacks and such. She decides she is going to go through Julie Childs' cookbook on French cooking, Mastering the Art of French Cooking, and blog about it. She gives herself the goal of going through the whole book in 365 days.

And you follow both of these women as they go through the struggles of life and learning to cook. I probably would never watch this movie again. The acting is great and the script is ok. The movie is a little choppy because of the way the whole thing is set up, jumping between Julia's life and Julie's life. So that's something to be expected.

I think it's more of the fact that I'm simply not interested in cooking. All the cooking and cooking talk in the movie kind of bores me. And there is quite a bit of it. -sigh- But maybe if you are remotely interested in cooking, this would be the movie for you.