Review of Eat Pray Love (2010) by Dylan D — 09 Sep 2013

Reflections on a Midlife Crisis, er, Eat Pray Love might be a good book, but it's a miserably overlong and under-realized movie that could have been a touching Comedy/Drama that examines what it is that really matters in life.

Instead, it's a shallow travelogue with flat characters inserted into beautiful backdrops that runs a good hour more than it should and only leaves audiences wondering "where's the beef?" Eat Pray Love is the poster child for unrealized potential and the futility of banking an entire movie on a book title and a name star who's well past her prime.

There are far better "girl finds love in exotic locale movies" out there that manage better stories, tighter direction, smoother editing, and far more heart and emotion; the recent Letters to Juliet is one such movie, and it comes recommended over Eat Pray Love.