This is an absolutely enjoyable movie.  Do you like women, Paris, food, eating, cooking, finding your passion, and good humor?  it is an inspirational story, part of which many already know, but the telling of it here is so delicious.  In the late 1940s, Julia Child is looking for something to do with her life, and because she likes to eat, she decides to learn to cook while her husband is working in Paris, so off to Cordon Bleu she goes. The Paris scenes seemed perfect to me, and I loved the Buick Roadmaster Station Wagon Julia drives in the movie. Julie in the early 2000s is looking also for something to do, so she decides to cook everything in Julia's first cookbook in one year.

   This is totally a women's movie -- female main characters who change, but unlike many female oriented movies, the two males, the husbands, are wonderful men, both supportive and loving.  Men will not be uncomfortable watching this movie.  And, the love the women have for their husbands will be reassuring.

   Julie and Julia learn to cook, and what an adventure they have.  There are bumps along the way, but no insurmountable chasms.

   Julia/Streep is the stronger of the two characters.  I found myself drawn to her in the movie.  If she was on the screen, she got my attention.  The voice, diction, laugh, and loquaciousness are unmistakably Julia Child.  I predict an Oscar nomination for Meryl Streep.

   Nora Ephron,  the writer/director, has a winner here. Absolutely, 100%, this movie has my recommendation.