Another I need to find myself movie. Lots of eating, lots of Julia Roberts laughing, then crying. It was just a dull and predictable movie. Why she has to go around the world is a mystery to me and where she found the money to do so was another question. We should all have so much freedom.

The book is fantastic, the movie is 'meh'
Ms. Roberts does a good job with what she has - that is a passable script with decent supporting actors.
Personally, I love it and have re-watched multiple times; I love the sense of self-discovery and rebuilding of love1
As a movie, ti's okay. The supporting staff are weak, the circumstances are often poorly developed, and there's that overwhelming sense this could only happen to you if you were rich ....
But it's a movie I come back to time-and-time again for it's message of self-discovery, hope, fellowship, and love!

This was one of the best books I have read so of course I wanted to check out the movie. I have never felt this bad for an author before! They absolutely ruined her story, leaving out explanations of main characters and influencers, I nearly threw the remote at the TV!

I felt like I was in all the new places with Roberts. I enjoyed the diversity and acceptance of the movie. I grew up overseas among many different cultures and I love that about myself and my life. I love how the movie emphasizes pleasure comes from within, not from without. I don't like the fact the movie promoted Buddhism as the symbol of spirituality because true freedom only comes from JESUS.
By the end of the movie the main character still did what she always have done which is take a risk in love but this time she understood herself and did not loose herself in the relationship.

This movie is awful. The acting, the script, the way it was adapted from the book (scenes cut out, adapted). I listened to the audiobook and while I found the content kind of cheesy, the writing was decent and made it a worthwhile read for the commute home. The movie, however, included all of the terrible parts of the book and left out all of the promising aspects. Two stars because if you are really bored, it will at least help you kill time; if you are looking for something to equal the experience of the book this movie is not even palatable.

I loved the book Eat Pray Love. It was an exceptional book. And, I like Julia Roberts. So, you would think I would love the movie. But, I felt the movie went way to much for cutesy feel good romance kind of story, instead of the richer story of the book. In the book, you really feel a sense of Elizabeth Gilbert’s commitment to searching for spiritiuality, and you learn much more about some of the amazing people she encountered during her journey. The book was also filled with delightfully humorous comments about people and her own shortcomings. Granted, this is hard to capture in a movie. I get that. But, it felt like they were following some typical Hollywood formula of what a Hollywood movie should be, the same exact formula we have all seen over and over again. In the book, you met a broader cast of characters, one really significant woman in Bali , who greatly influenced her Elizabeth Gilbert’s life.

The book explains more of her story, is it still self-indulgent, yes. I mean wouldn't we all just love to be able to spend a year "finding ourselves" and eating pasta after a crappy divorce and a bad rebound?? Well, we are not all writers who have a publisher that will foot the bill.... so yeah I do get a bit annoyed with someone living such an obviously free and interesting life being so self-centered and self-pitying, but there is the thing where everyone always sees their own struggle from their perspective and it feels unbearable to them, and you read the book and watch the movie and wish you could go on her journey, so I guess we all might be this self-indulgent given the opportunity. I think that is why I like it. But - the book does make you more sympathetic to her struggles and there is a lot more to relate to in it compared to the movie, so I would say, read the book too and you'll like the movie a bit more if you found it a little silly.

Sure, there are things that are predictable in the story telling, sure Julia Roberts does some of her same characteristics from other movies, but both are endearing. This movie also touches on some graceful wonderful things in life that many will reject because they can feel heavy-handed when presented as a "new way of life." Bottom line: the acting is well-done, the story is good, and it is thoroughly enjoyable.