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"Two words - LOVED IT. As JGM said, is it \"Citizen Kane\" or \"Casablanca\" or even \"Gone With The Wind\". Uhhhhhh, no. But its wonderful and supremely entertaining, especially the \"Julia parts\" (the \"Julie parts\" sort of dragged for me, but I'm much older than her target audience, and her book dragged for me as well).  But still, there were many good moments in the \"Julie parts\" as well. Meryl Streep *is* a bit over the top in a couple of scenes, but for sure has Julia's essence.  Stanley Tucci is freakin' BRILLIANT as Paul. LOVED the inclusion of the Danny Ackroyd SNL skit.......that was brilliant. All in all, I'll watch it again when it comes on cable, I may even buy the DVD, and it absolutely, positively made me want to cook something.  Immediately.  Preferably from one of Julia's books.  Instead, we went out for French food ! I'd say the theater I saw it in (a MegaMultiPlex) was 95% full, and most of the audience applauded at the end. JGM, I have seen NO negative reviews.  The LA Times loved it, the NY Times loved it, even my rinky-dink hometown paper that buys reviews from a syndicate loved it.  Dunno who's panning it, but I sure haven't seen it. \n"
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