Julie & Julia

Julie & Julia
US Opening: August 7, 2009

This will, admittedly, be a chick flick. There is just no way around it.

Guys- if your single, you can stop reading now. If you have a girlfriend/wife, you'll prbobably want to know what you will innevitably be forced to watch at some point.

My feelings on this trailer are definitely going to be colored by two very special words- Meryl Streep. That really should be enough to say with complete authority, this is a movie worth seeing.

But wait- there's more!

This is the first major release from Director Nora Ephron since the abismal reinvention of Bewitched in 2005. Please don't hold that against her. Ms. Ephron is a triple threat of the highest order. If you don't believe me, do a quick IMDB search and you'll know she's for real. I don't know too many women who aren't a fan of her work, whether they know it or not.

Also, not to be forgotten is Stanley Tucci, playing Julia Child's husband, Paul Child. From the trailer alone, I can't gauge how influential he's going to be, but it doesn't usually matter how much screen time Mr. Tucci gets. He always leaves an impression.

Holding me back from unmitigated fawning over this trailer is Amy Adams. I like Amy Adams as a personality. I really do. From a celebrity news watcher's point of view, she seems like a nice girl who has been a part of some projects that I have really loved; however, just in the 2:30 trailer I found myself annoyed with her and her character. If she is as whiny and hapless in the rest of the movie as she is in the preview (and most of her other roles, for that matter) I'm going to resent her for every single second she takes away from Meryl Streep. I have a sneaking suspicion that I'm going to resent her very much by film's end.

All in all I would call this a "go for it" movie-going experience. As long as the majority of the screen time is dedicated to the "Julia" portion of this duo, it can't go wrong.