I was not expecting much from this movie. Because of ratings both professional and user ratings on Rotten Tomatoes I thought it would be one of those regrettable movies that I would later wish I hadn't seen.It wasn't bad.
It wasn't the best movie that I've ever seen and it really copied a lot of it's idea from Under the Tuscan Sun, but it was still good. The Italian part of the movie (or the "eat" part) was probably the best. It actually made me so hungry we had to have pasta for supper. I could have done without "pray" in India, she could have just kind of wrapped up Pray and Love into one section. Don't get me wrong, I get that this is based on a book that I've not yet read and I suppose you can't veer too far off topic when the title is telling you that there will be three distinct sections, but I still think if nothing else, this could have been a bit shorter.
James Franco is briefly in the movie and I can't help but feel that if I'd read the book, I'd understand the importance of this relationship to her life. It also seemed to happen so fast before she's divorced and was implied that it was impactful yet didn't seem to last more that a few weeks. It left me confused.
Thank goodness for Javier Bardem. Right about the time I was getting hungry from watching Julia Roberts eat Italian food then bored and getting sleepy from watching her pray, we got to the love part. If you go to a chick-flick you've gotta love the love part! In this case Javier Bardem breathed a little life back into this flick when she got to Bali.
Overall it was a good movie, worth going to (just don't drink a large soda or you'll have to take a potty break) but only go with the girls, DO NOT drag a guy to this!
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