I hate the book, I hate the movie..hate hate hate IT!! Never met anyone so needy & clingy, why did she cry again?? I think it's just a case of 7 years itch...but exaggerated...obviously she has money, not everyone can just take one whole year of holiday around the world..so really can see the meaning of the book n movies... I have a & years old special need son and went thru more then 10 surgeries... & I did't event blink..let alone cried...OMG...int'l best seller?? Really???… Expand

This movie is way too long and exaggerates too much on unnecessary details and is never clear on what is the message that the movie wants to project. It's not that it doesn't have great ideas, is just not shown as well as it should have been shown. It's a decent ride of a film but it never makes the whole adventure of Liz exciting for us to see or care about.

Eat Pray Love neglects to show what really happens to dumb, rich tourists when they venture too far from the mall. Where is the scene when Julia Roberts is chased by a troop of mandrills on her bicycle? Where is the scene when Julia Roberts eats unrefrigerated gado gado, then rests her head in a toilet bowl begging to die? And where is the scene when the sweaty, unshaven Javier Bardem spikes her mineral water with Rohypnol and defrauds her Amex card? Well? Answer me that.… Expand

What a piece of freaking crap. Especially compared to Expendables and Scott Pilgrim. The characters are so shallow, the script is bad, and everything else sucks. Skip this movie.

A travelogue about a self-absorbed person's uninteresting time-out year. Julia Roberts fairly glows, as do the settings, but swimming in any pool an inch deep leaves you unsatisfied, no matter how it might sparkle. She eats glorious spaghetti. You leave empty.

I went into this movie with the intention of only getting laid for sitting through what I assumed was going to be a piece of colorful poop. However, this film ended up being the best film I've ever seen! From the very beginning I connected with Julia Roberts and up until the end of the film I didn't take my mind off of any of it. I have seen this movie two times already this weekend, and in this economy that is saying a lot! See it multiple times, you won't regret it!… Expand

The movie felt a bit slow to start but overall I enjoyed it. It was a "make you think" kind of movie. Julia Roberts is beauiful as always and the acting was good.

Had heard about the book, but never read it. Thought it was a very good movie. Many people who go see the movie may not enjoy it for the fact they are not or have never been at a point in their lives where it is time to move along to something more. Julia Roberts was excellent along with the rest of the cast. Very insightful, beautiful locales. Left the theater with a smile on my face. Will be buying the book to get the more detailed version. Go see it.… Expand

This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Although the beginning temporarily had me questioning why this plot had made for such a best selling book, the movie picked up speed during Julia Roberts conversation with her friend about not liking where she was in life. I enjoyed her travels, but found them slightly disconnected. The ending was cute, screaming the typical Hollywood farewell of a movie. Eat Pray Love, if it did nothing else, left me with quite an appetite.… Expand

Disjointed and hard to get into. You don't get a chance to know/like Liz before the drama starts, so it's hard to care as much about her journey as you should. http://poppingpictures.blogspot.com/2010/08/chick-flick-of-summer.html

This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. "Eat Pray Love" would be easier to mock if author Elizabeth Gilbert wasn't a National Book Award nominee(for "The Last American Man"), and had both her fiction and non-fiction works cited by The New York Times as being "notable". So if you're going to be a hater, categorically labeling the memoirist as being narcissistic, the latest offender of the "me" lit boom, heed her credentials, because Gilbert's navel-gazing is not your garden variety navel-gazing, like that of a populist hack, or a self-proclaimed, self-help guru flake-turned scribe. Arguably, "Eat Pray Love" should be mentioned in the same breath as Stephen Daldry's "The Hours", in addition to its obvious genre classification: the "chick flick", and sub-genre: a woman goes on a journey of self-discovery(e.g. Audrey Welles' "Under the Tuscan Sun"). Make no mistake about it. Elizabeth Gilbert is a literary writer, albeit not of the same caliber as Virginia Woolf, she is literary within the context of her times; her books belonging to a lesser canon, but a canon of sorts, nevertheless. As played by Julia Roberts, the Pen/Hemingway Award finalist(for her 1997 short story collection "Pilgrims") has an ironical spirit about her, when you compare the real-life Gilbert with Ruth Thomas, the sedentary island heroine from the writer's warring lobster fishermen saga "Stern Men". The fictional Ruth, in spite of being exposed to boarding school, was content to eat shellfish, and someday marry a man who caught them. Thanks to "Eat Pray Love", the reader can't help but psychoanalyze Gilbert through her prior texts. At the time of the 2001 novel's publication, it's only natural to speculate that the then-married writer was trying to justify the institution of marriage, the pros of settling down, since Ruth chooses the island over the world(well, if you consider Maine, the world); or maybe, more accurately, Gilbert was simply revisiting her seventeen-year-old self, back when the younger lass believed in home and family. Both a journalist and a novelist, Gilbert, amidst the other Indians during the film adaptation's strongest chapter, "Pray", wears her reporter's hat while lending her ear to a local girl, bemoaning the fast-approaching date of her arranged marriage to a boy she's never met. True to form, objectivist form, Gilbert doesn't share her contemporaneous prejudices against matrimonial unions with the beseeching young woman, a terrified bride-to-be who probably wanted an enlightened opinion, a western opinion, but instead gets a disappointingly stock one. Concerning nuptials, Gilbert, a feminist, as demonstrated through her counter-traditional actions, in effect, lies to the girl, which presents an existential dichotomy of the highest order. On one hand, Gilbert doesn't want to come across like some ugly American, who disregards the sanctity of Hindu law, but still, as the girl's friend and mentor, speaking woman to woman, independent of the cultural divide that separates the east from the west, the older woman owes it to the young girl to consider rebellion. Although Gilbert proves time and time again to be a wonderful human being("Eat" is a lot of fun; Italy, a land of enchantment), she does, in this instance, come across as a hypocrite, but this flaw only makes her more interesting, since all artists live in their own moral universes, with its contradictions and blissful ignorance.… Expand

Eat,Prey,and Love looked great,but GOD that is so stupid! The movie wasn't too good and I couldn't focus on Roberts playing as a lady who is heading the world with three combining things that she needed to do. The exotic locations are pretty good to see,but notihing interesting to see because the the story was so dull and it takes 2 hours to see the entire film with uninteresting things and it's just partiuclar vacation photos and of course the novel wasn't based on the movie.Nothing interesting with the characters and it has a little plot points and I don't quite understand that the lady was thinking her life without nothing special with her ex-husband or her boyfriend and has no charm to their relationship. The only I like is Javier Bardem,he'e the only cool guy and he could make it intresting with Roberts at the middle. But please,they call the Bardem,Felipe and my name is Felipe too! Well Bardem & Roberts wasn't so bad in their role. Roberts I'm sorry and I luv ya,but your movie is too much dullness and too many plot points that wouldn't explain anything in the novel.… Expand

This is one of Julia Roberts' best movies. It's the perfect movie for for relief from stress and anxiety. I'm definitely glad I saw it and everyone else should too.

Julia Roberts finds herself - and we rediscover her considerable talents - in a rare movie-is-better-than-the-book travel adventure, Eat Pray Love. Screenplay by director Ryan Murphy and Jennifer Salt redeems the navel-gazing memoir by Elizabeth Gilbert. Revealing an inner adventure that drags at first, the film soon falls into natural rhythm as a world traveler faces her inner demons and searches for love. Best of all, Eat Pray Love stars a Julia Roberts who shows up in nearly every scene. Abundant screen time allows Roberts to inhabit her character Liz, weave us into her anger and frustration, and reveal a radiant, smiling beauty. There's no trace of the tight-assed Anna of Closer or Tess of Ocean's Eleven. Instead we could be watching Mystic Pizza's Daisy Arujo all grown up. Roberts seems to be playing herself in the film which avoids becoming preachy or too New Agey. Instead Liz meets an array of honest, memorable characters as she learns to love herself during trips to Italy, India and Bali. "Ruin is the path to transformation,"Â� Liz finds. After a bitter divorce from sarcastic dreamer Stephen (perfectly played by Billy Crudup), she leaves a rebound-relationship with actor David (James Franco). Tarrying too long in New York City with her literary agent (Viola Davis), Liz finally she sets out, broke and alone. The film's rich atmosphere and scenery in all three countries is pleasurable. How big the world is, and how it puts our personal struggles into perspective. In Italy, Liz indulges in food and abstains from sex. It's her time to be in relationship with herself. Liz ruminates about her romantic challenges while wolfing down Pizza Margherita in Napoli and enjoying prosciutto topped melon with a motley crew of natives and expatriates. The philosophical group, including new friend Sofi (Tuva Novotny), share interesting times, including a morning-after Thanksgiving turkey with extended family. What Liz takes away from her stay is gratitude for her friends and for life. A few pounds heavier, she heads to India and the ashram of David's guru. Plunging herself into a regimen of chanting, vegetarian meals and 4:00 a.m. meditations, she meets Richard from Texas (raw, honest Richard Jenkins, a likely nominee for Best Supporting Actor). Filled with fear and skepticism, Liz is shown meditating just enough to give us the idea: accept whatever happens, and move on. **** Singh is memorable as a teenager being forced into an arranged marriage. Bali is where Liz reunites with a wise, eccentric shaman Ketut (irresistible Hadi Subiyanto) and befriends a healer Wayan (soulful Christine Hakim). It isn't long before warm-hearted divorcee Felipe (Javier Bardem) nearly collides with the soul searcher. Roberts and Bardem are magical together onscreen. Eat Pray Love has become part of a new tradition in Hollywood: the blockbuster film which focuses on self-discovery. The screenplay reportedly struck a chord with Roberts. The film's team of producers includes Brad Pitt (Seven Years in Tibet; The Curious Case of Benjamin Button). Eat Pray Love reveals an authentic side of Julia Roberts while it shows us how the real can become sublime.… Expand

Julia Roberts once seemed to have the Midas touch, but here she appears a miscast. The movie is longer than needs to be and I did not feel the true enlightenment of this spoiled, self-centered, city-girl though her journey. Bardem remains one of my favourite actors.

To obtain balance you must be in a state of equilibrium or equipoise. Liz is consistently searching for it and eventually does find it; pity “Eat Pray Love� does not. - Duke & The Movies http://dukeandthemovies.com/uncategorized/eat-pray-love

For a woman who has been divorced, going to three countries on the other side of the planet seems more like a temporary escape persay. Julia Roberts plays Liz, who sets out on a year or so to visit three countries, which as the movie title suggests, to eat, pray, and love. From watching the film in it's entirety, you can conclude that she likes the eating part best (Loads of Pasta). And for prayer, she visits India. The movie almost seems to run on in India, and more toned down. "Love" has had to be the hardest part for Liz to experience in Bali mainly due to soon realizing that maybe this entire getaway has been just trying to forget about love, and experiencing, or at least forcing her self to choose a more spiritual down to earth way of life. By the end, has she really found happiness? The story is told blankly, and I couldn't exactly connect with the movie because of that. It slowly becomes an expose' of Liz's adventures, with the warmth and sweetness not fully executed.… Expand

This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. I had to watch this movie because my girlfriend forced me to watch it with her. This is not a movie for a guy, unless if your gay. In short, this movie is Sex and the City without the sex part. And it’s also about 10 times more boring which makes it even harder to sit through. Yes, it’s a Sex and the City “wannabe,â€� wow how pathetic does that sound, SATC being one of the lamest TV series of all time. Is Julia Roberts related to Sarah Jessica Parker? They look like sisters. Both pretty damn ugly. This movie is about a self-centered, extremely selfish woman who can’t seem to quit talking in sarcastic tone. She told her husband (who really cared about her) that she wanted a divorce, simply because she “realized that she doesn’t love him anymore,â€� and go on immediately to sleep with some random young buck guy she met at a bar, when her husband refused to sign the divorce. And when he finally does sign it, she was already getting bored with this new boyfriend of hers. Basically she gave up on her marriage and dumped her new lover all at once. She then decided to travel the world and try healing herself from her “broken heartâ€� (ironic because she’s the one breaking hearts). When she’s at Bali she meets this Brazilian guy who’s also divorced, who while driving hit her with his car, who tried to get in her pants and succeeded. The story ends when she decided to stay with him. In the end of the movie, they have her narrating (very much like how Carrie does it in SATC), trying to sound like she has this life-changing epiphany all of a sudden. But the fact is, she’s still a selfish, self-centered **** who does whatever she wants and doesn’t give a **** to what others feel. I’m not exaggerating here, if you see this movie you’ll understand what I’m saying here. She divorced her ex-husband, dumped her boyfriend, and decided that she is in fact in love with this guy who appears out of nowhere, a random guy who drove into her while she was riding a bike, and this only happened some 20 minutes before the movie ends. Basically, she has learned NOTHING. Learned NOTHING in life and the movie is overwhelmingly pointless and not a bit educating to say the least. The most hypocritical part is when she emailed all her friend, asking them to donate money to this poor family she met at Bali and managed to raise tens of thousands. Like yeah right that’s going to happen in real life. Every eight seconds there’s a kid dying of hunger in Africa and there are millions of mothers and kids who are worse off in the Middle East struggling to survive from the bullets and bombings. Talking about charity? I also find it strange that 99% of people in Bali happens to be White, in spite of the word "locals" being repeatedly mentioned. What are the chances? Isn't Bali supposed to be an island in Indonesia? I guess she was at a "white-only" region of the island? Oh and I like how Sony does its product placement. Notice that every single person in the movie is using a Vaio laptop? Some good old marketing, eh? This movie is a worthless piece of trash. Avoid at all cost. It wasted two and half hours of my life and I cannot regret more. Save yourselves from resenting over this junk. Zero out of Ten.… Expand

Julia Robert’s performance in Eat Pray Love brought out her outstanding acting ability. On some level, I think people everyone can identify with her character. But the movie seemed a little drawn out. The plot never developed beyond the ordinary and it ended predictably. However, Julia Robert’s character definitely captured what people everywhere seek – contentment. We all search for true happiness and satisfaction. The question is, did the movie provide an adequate answer for finding it? Liz (Julia Roberts) sets out for a truth seeking journey, and claims in the end she’s found it through her various experiences. But are our experiences alone an accurate guide? After all, the movie ends with her beginning another relationship….so what happens when she experiences ‘unhappiness’ this time? Will she call it quits again? Or seek her cosmic conscious? I think sometimes we try convincing ourselves that this world is all there is, so we just need one more thing to make us happy. But when we find it, it’s never enough. Sex, food, and money promise ultimate satisfaction, but never make good on their promises. People are still lonely and depressed, and whether we admit it or not, we know at the core we are insecure and fragile. So as Julia’s character portrays, we keep searching, even if it takes us around the world. Today, reality has been defined by our experience. Many dismiss God as irrelevant, or accuse him of being unresponsive or old-fashioned. But has God failed us, or have we, in the name of ‘freedom’ turned out backs on Him? What we need is a restored relationship with our Creator; the God who broke into history and accomplished the means for that reconciliation in the person of Jesus Christ. He bore the burden of our guilt, to bring us back to himself. The God of the Bible seeks us. Only when we turn to Him in trust do we gain perspective on true reality. Then we realize his moral authority is protective, not oppressive. When we submit to God and allow him to care for us, we find contentment in his love and security. How do we receive this relationship? Admit we need it and humbly receive his provision through Jesus Christ. He then places us in his version of the movie, Eat Pray Love.… Expand

Tiresome plot made worse by Julia Roberts traditionally minimal acting. Roberts has always gotten by with smiles and wistful looks and not much else.It doesn't appear that's going to get her by anymore More of the same here with the cameras panning to Roberts who always has that phony looking serene smile.

If you like to travel, I think you probably will love thiz movie. It is a real life experience of Elizabeth M. Gilbert who is in self-discovery by travelling to Italy, India and Bali (no one mentions Indonesia?!) in 2006. Eat at Italy, pray at India and finds love at paradise island Bali. Her book EAT, PRAY, LOVE was on New York Times Best Seller list for 110 weeks. The movie directed by Ryan Murphy who is the Creator of NIP/TUCK, POPULAR and musical phenomenal GLEE. His famous directing credit is RUNNING WITH SCISSORS in 2006. Julia Roberts did her typical Rom-Com Queen role for thousand of time. Three lovers around her Liz character are played by fine Actors such as: Javier Bardem, Billy Crudup, and Spider-Man best friend, James Franco. Bardem brings a relaxing and warm aura into his character. Another brief and believable performance comes from Richard Jenkins as a devastated man in India. There are some surprising performances by Indonesian Actors like: The toothless medicine man, Ketut (played by Hadi Subiyanto), Nyomo (I Gusti Ayu Puspawati), the little Tutti (Anakia Lapae) and senior Actress, Christine Hakim. Subiyanto portrays a memorable and key character, although with limited English. In the half hour at the beginning of thiz chick flick, the plot is kind of boring and flat, but after that we find plenty of funny moments and the story-telling goes better. At the end, I came to the conclusion that Liz Gilbert character was kind of confused and too much worried about herself, she left everything she had for irrational reasons. Thiz movie has been telling us, Each city and person has one word to describe it. Well, my word is: selfishness. One thing is for sure, the real exoticsm of Bali is more beautiful than it appears. I wont tell you, you have to visit Bali and check it out yourself. Visit My Blog on JONNY'S MOVEE : http://jonnyfendi.blogspot.com… Expand

The movie explores the possibilities of what to do if the American Dream does not satisfy you. It definitely does show some alternative lifestyles to a stereotyped American way of life. However, even though it makes you want to go to Italy and eat some delicious Pizza, "Love Eat Pray" is lacking cinematic magic that would make you love the movie.

This movie is a slap in the face to everyone who is if only slightly interested in the spiritual content of life. It's embarrassingly shallow even for a romantic flick. The main character is boring, her story and morals are flat. By the time the movie was over I was completely annoyed.