Eat Pray Love

The three faces of happyness!

If you want to eat tripe, this is it. A passably good movie will let you suspend belief at least a little. None here. It belittles places and peoples. The leads are all white or European despite the settings being mostly not. The characters are shallow and self absorbed - wealthy enough to travel a lot but to never worry about it at all in grindingly impoverished places. The premise was that Liz (the lead) lost it all, but still could afford..... I only kept watching because I thought there must be something here or it would never have made it to theaters. My mistake.

Spoiled histrionic makes her inability to appreciate her shallow life everybody else's problem, and is ultimately rewarded with an unrealistic fairytale ending.

It's a good movie. I liked it because it is thought provoking, and moving. I recommend seeing it.

Like Liz, this movie was lost. She didn’t know what to do with her life, why she was on the trip and what she learned about herself, and neither do I. (38%)

The prequel to Live Laugh Love. Despite having a surprisingly stacked cast and the budget to film on location across the world, it only results in a bland vanilla self-discovery film. Julia Roberts as Liz Gilbert is a white savior first-ballot Hall of Famer, going 3/3 when it comes to “enlightening” or “enriching” the people in the countries she travels to. Ryan Murphy should stick to working his voodoo on TV shows as this film’s structure and pacing is a hot mess, that ironically would’ve probably worked better as a television miniseries. Too much material from the original memoir was attempted to be crammed into a film, resulting in it feeling rushed and not allowing the viewer enough time to grow attached to any of the supporting characters.

This movie; key word "attempts", to create meaning, but is really let down by messy direction and lousy screenwriting. Such a talented lead, Julia Roberts, wasted by the missed potential and the boring, long beginning that just felt like an eternity. I must say though, the cultural aspects of this movie were impressive and fun to watch, everything else is forgettable and quite frankly you can miss this Julia Roberts' movie out...

An excellent movie that moves you, sheds light, relatable, thought provoking ... including the parts we might not wish for. Julia does an amazing portrayal of the main character.

my forever go to in tough times.

Mrs. Roberts does his absolute best to carry this movie, she does so in convincing fashion which we have all come to expect every time she acts. The movie doesn't care the same tones as the book, but for a book adaptation this is one of the better ones.