Just finished "Julie & Julia" with the missus. It wasn't that bad; the parts on Julia Child's life were the more interesting segments, though (her learning to cook, trying to find a publisher, etc.). It's happy-happy fluff stuff. Some Republican-bashing is worked in, if you like that sort of thing; although I'm not really sure that anti-McCarthy rants are really "Republican" bashing since he was a Democrat. Still, Julie's boss says that if she were working for a Republican, she would have been fired for calling in sick for one day. And Julia Child's father is said to be a Republican who really likes McCarthy. And Julia's poor husband is denied funding for the embassy library, and has to travel all the way from Paris to D.C. so that he can be asked by a three-member panel if he is a homosexual.
For a movie about cooking, though, Ratatouille is better.