Chef: Food as an Art Form

Chef follows the tale of Jon Favreau as an executive chef at a high-end & successful L.A. restaurant. He SOMEHOW has a child with Sofia Vergera, which is the most unlikely thing about any movie in history. Favreau plays a standard role of schlubby looking dude who is usually chill, but has an intense side. John Leguizamo plays his line cook, Bobby Cannavale his sous chef, Dustin Hoffman the owner, Scarlett Johansson as hostess, so the cast is excellent. Throw in Oliver Platt as a big-time food critic and a sprinkle of Robert Downey Jr. as Vergera's uber-rich ex-husband and you've got talent. Favreau is getting ramped up for Platt showing up to review their restaurant. Hoffman clips his ambition and convinces him to cook the standard, but boring and uninspired, standard menu. Platt rightly shreds the menu, and particularly Favreau, which spirals him into an angry mess. He starts experimenting with social media to further ruin the situation and gets into a fight with Hoffman, where he promptly quits. He ends up getting a food truck and cooking what he likes. There's some redeeming father stuff tossed in there as well. Most importantly this movie highlights that great food is available anywhere. Passion in cooking food is HUGE and chefs are empowered more than ever in the pursuit of culinary excellence and experimentation. Bottom Line: 7.8 out of 10. Funny and entertaining enough to pull through with limited story to work with. The fact that Favreau had Vergera and Johansson as lovers in this film shows that he is the director, because that's completely fucking ridiculous. In a related note I'd cast Anna Kournikova to be my wife/lover in any movie I cast even if she couldn't speak English.