The New York Times Bestsellers list was home to Eat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth Gilbert for a while. They made a movie out of it, starring Julia Roberts. The authorities weren’t impressed. Critics also took Sex and also the City 2, the previous sort-of-feminist travel film this year, out back and beat the film like a red headed stepchild. Article resource – No positive Eat Pray Love movie reviews to be found by Newystype.com.
Another person’s self discovery is incredibly scintillating
The book is part self help guide, spiritual quest, and travelogue about how Elizabeth Gilbert dumped her husband out of blue to go travel and rediscover herself. She told her publisher about the idea before the film, and financed it with a huge advance she got for it. The film stars Julia Roberts, James Franco, Billy Crudup, and Javier Bardem, and it was directed by Ryan Murphy.
Not many glowing Eat Pray Love movie reviews
On popular film review site Rotten Tomatoes, the film had a rating of 36 percent on the day of release. A review from PRI’s The World by Beth Accomando said “more like eat, pray for it to be over, gag.” Adam Graham from the Detroit News said the film amounted to “an ridiculous fantasy for rich people.” The Chicago Sun Times and famed critic Roger Ebert was not amused. He said to grasp the impact of the movie, “I guess you’ve to belong to the narcissistic subculture of Woo-Woo.” In the Christian Science Monitor, Andy Klein writes that as Robert’s character learns meditation, it “involves emptying her mind – which shouldn’t take much heavy lifting.”
You’ve to be critical to critique
Sometimes critics love to be dogs in a manger, but there’s a underlying theme within the negative reviews. The book was popular for a reason. It has a optimistic message, about getting in touch with one’s spiritual side. That said, that does not appeal to everyone. It may actually have worked better in print. That sort of theme for a book may inspire some while boring others to tears. Eat, Pray, Love, seems to be so good and uplifting that it becomes banal.
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Rotten Tomatoes
rottentomatoes.com/m/eat_pray_love/
Roger Bert
rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20100811/REVIEWS/100819999
SC Monitor
csmonitor.com/The-Culture/Movies/2010/0813/Eat-Pray-Love-movie-review
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