Julie & Julia (12A)
Verdict: Cordon bleurgh **
THE ham, madam? It's very much on, in this bland gastro-mantic comedy that needs much less sugar and a hell of a lot more bite.
Meryl Streep is Julia Child, the 60s US TV chef who introduced French cuisine to a nation of grateful lardbuckets. Amy Adams is Julie Powell, a present-day office drone who challenges herself to cook all of Child's 524 recipes in a year, and write a "hilarious" blog about it (joy).
Streep's at her overblown worst here - a one- note, lumbering, Mrs Doubtfire he-she. Adams is a bit subtler but her character's such a smirking little twerp it's hard to say who's more annoying.
Taking the gold, though, is writer-director Nora Ephron - who drawns comparisons between the first translator of the most complex cuisine on Earth with a muppet wittering about herself on the net every night. Talk about leaving a sour taste.
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