I've enjoyed it from the begining till the end..even seen the second time, what happened to me almost never..

I was 18 years old when I read the book and watched the movie and now I see the reason why I liked it. It did have a certain impact on me since I was in a turning point of life myself. Surely I didn't follow any of Elizabeth's advises on self discovering and stuff like this. I just found the idea of having a journey like she did, enchanting. To me it felt like a sort of an adventure in discovering new lands and experiencing different ways of living and enjoying life. Liz had everything: money, good job position, friends, so she seems in a certain point fed up and just quits the job, withdraws the money, breaks up with her husband, hurts everyone around blaming them for her issues and travels. She has the opportunity to escape like that and go to a 'self-discovery' journey which for me it appeared to be 'leave everyone you cared about in your country and get other friends who pat your back constantly and eventually get a new boyfriend.' Unlike Liz there are people out there who instead of escaping, they deal with their own issues perfectly. Lastly, this work is worthless besides the travel destinations.

By Jonathan Decker (Family therapist, film critic)WHAT'S EAT PRAY LOVE ABOUT? A woman seeks to find herself through a year of traveling, meditation, and dining. Based on the novel of the same name.IS IT ANY GOOD? Before Facebook, you may recall, one might sit through literal slide-shows (projected onto a sheet, for example) in order to experience a friend's vacation. This film feels like sitting through such an evening, if your friend were self-indulgent and a bit narcissistic, kept bringing up her broken marriage and her justifications for a fling during the slideshow, gabbed on and on about the wonderful people she met as if you knew them, and took way too long to show her admittedly scenic slides.As someone who enjoys glimpses into world cultures/religions, good actors, and romance in general, I'll admit that there were a few moments that charmed, enlightened, and moved me. But this sluggishly-paced movie feels a good 45 minutes longer than its 2 hour and 15 minute running time. This is to say nothing of its repetitive narrative structure, general predictability, and disturbing core message: You can find peace through avoidance of accountability and by literally coming to see yourself as your own god. It's all about "love yourself" and "forgive yourself," which is fine, but the protagonist takes no responsibility for what she does to hurt other people early on. Julia Roberts is likable, but her character here mostly is not. This is not a film I'd revisit.IS IT OKAY FOR YOUR KIDS? Eat Pray Love is rated PG-13. It has a fair amount of foul language (including one use of the phrase "mother——," which I thought was only allowed in R-rated films), sexual innuendo, male rear nudity, and implications of adultery and other sex outside of marriage.ANY WORTHWHILE MESSAGES? It is not enough to life for self- fulfillment; one must live to benefit others. Take time to enjoy and savor life.

I really didn't like the book but I swear that I wanted to like the movie, at least a little. The movie version really went for the "Leave no cliché behind" school of storytelling. Seriously, a cold water flat in Rome? Never even heard of that in this century and I'm sure some over-privileged American woman wouldn't live there if they paid her. I half-expected the protagonist to meet an old organ grinder with a monkey.For the life of me I don't understand why people love Julia Roberts so much but then I don't get why people insist on having huge movie stars in their movies. I much prefer the new breed of TV series with no-name actors. I find this helps me to believe in the characters. I wonder how different this movie would have been with an unknown in the lead. Granted, the script is miserable from start to finish but a different lead would have made it less obnoxious, at least for me. Had they used any other actress for the role they probably would have fought the urge to plaster her face across the entire screen for two painfully long hours.The "spirituality" is pure horse manure, just like the book. An ashram in India? Is that what upper-middle class whites do when they think they're too sophisticated to be garden variety Jesus freaks but too stupid to just be atheists? All of the talk in the movie about spirituality or whatever it is made me feel icky. They make it out like just going to India and painting a dot on your forehead will cure anything that ails you.Javier Bardem is charming, as always, but by the time he comes on screen it's like someone trying to bail water out the Titanic with a tea cup. There were no survivors in this disaster.