This movie was decent. It didn’t suck, but it wasn’t awesome either. The soundtrack was horrible. Also, Juno seemed like she was smart and mature; why didn’t she use protection when she had sex with that dorky dude? I agree that “the film tries too hard to be ‘hip’”, and I hated the whole “indie” feel that it had to it. Other than that it was a pretty cute movie, I liked the hamburger phone and the “ultrasound technician” scene.

Hilarious, smart, and sweet, so unlike everything else. Definitely one of the best films in a long time. Ellen Page was absolutely brilliant. If only a Diablo Cody came along more often than every blue moon in Hollywood! Long live the Previa!

What to say about it all? It’s sweet, and yes, quirky, and not all that realistic. But it is very moving and an entirely enjoyable evening out. I can’t understand the people bashing the soundtrack either… we went right home and bought it.

I nearly didn’t make it through the opening credits. The soundtrack is painfully bad.

Then the portrayal of the abortion clinic as a horrible place was such anti-choice propaganda I nearly stopped watching again. Her pregnancy is of course shown as trouble free and unrealistically easy.

The main problem is : Juno is incredibly irritating. She’s meanspirited. I would never want to adopt a baby with her genes. (& from someone too stupid to use protection). The decisions she makes are so spur of the moment, that a little thing changes her mindeither way. Michael Cera is 1-dimensional, unintelligent & does nothing but eat tictacs. Jennifer Garner is also 1-dimensional obsessed only with having a baby.

The dialogue is completely unrealistic. No one talks like that. Especially, no female (and hopefully no male) would ever refer to breasts as “fun bags”. The whole film tries WAY too hard to be ‘hip’.

And the writer seems to think she needs to follow the Clerks/indie model of discussing films and songs to show how hip and indie she is. (p.s. the Melvins are the ONLY band I have ever heard BOOED on stage).

The forced last minute changes to make a ‘happy’ ending are incredibly weak and seem to come out of nowhere.

I might’ve snickered twice. Not amusing. Maybe if it had been billed as a tragedy….

P.S. I took off another star after I learned this was ripped off from another movie called “jeni juno”.

I’m absolutely in love with that movie. There are so many things to adore. From Juno’s Hamburger phone, Bleeker’s obsession with tic tacs, and Alison Janey ‘s telling off of the Ultrasound technician. And although its quirky and humorous, it is deep and touching on so many levels. I mostly laughed but it did honestly did make me cry. And yes I’m in love with Paulie Bleeker.

I really loved the music also. It’s not always the type of music I listen to all the time but now I’ve bought the songs off ITUNES and listen to them constantly. I really recommend “Anyone Else But You” by the Moldy Peaches and “So Nice So Smart” by Kimya Dawson.
Brittany

This movie is fun. Yes, it is tackling a serious issue. Yes, it serious at times, too. But it is a wonderful life affirming movie.

Ok, yes: it was cute. Almost too cute, with her carefully crafted clever dialogue. And yes: I would recommend it overall to friends/family. But academy award? what? really? it’s up for 4: actress in a leading role (she was really good, but again..really? oscar?), directing (give up, if the coen brothers dont win i’ll eat YOUR hat), best picture (shit.), and best original screenplay (now here, maybe. juuuuuust maybe).
all im sayin is if juno is getting nominated for all this, it must have been a pretty slow year indeed.

My wife and I almost saw this movie. We saw the first forty minutes anyway. So why didn’t we see all of it? (Don’t worry, I want to see the rest of it, but I’m marking it as “consumed” so I can post a story.)

Since our baby arrived, we’ve had some really hit or miss times at the movies. The only movie we’ve seen together in the theater since the baby was born in June was The Kingdom. Not the greatest movie. Nonetheless, we keep trying.

Anyway, last night—a very cold night here—there was a fire alarm about thirty minutes in, so we along with everyone else left the theater. Then, since nothing was obviously on fire, everyone went back in and the movie resumed. About ten minutes after that, the theater manager on duty informed us that the theater indeed would be closing for the evening and that we could get free passes for another showing.

So everyone left again. Somehow on the way out, we managed to get four free passes when we should’ve gotten two. Oops. They were handing them out in big rolls, and my wife and I, each thinking we needed to get passes, got separated in the crowd. Hence four passes. We now have two more date nights prepaid at the theater. I promised her that she could pick the movie on both occasions. Anyone want to babysit?

Juno isn’t a new story, or even a new take on an old story. What it is, however, is a heightened version that respects the struggle of a child having a child.

Juno is ultimately several love stories in one, but I love that the movie doesn’t give in to the obvious (and I think, over-exposed) emotions of teens falling in love with their babies and keeping them forever to raise them in an alternate lifestyle. You and I could name a dozen movies that create this sort of The Baby Is A Blessing After All story.

Poo on that. Juno is a kid. She’s flippant, irrational, smart, dangerously independent and honest. The film constantly shows us a very young girl making what she thinks are black-or-white decisions and never quite grasping that the world doesn’t work that way.

Films like this one can end up preachy, or end with soft-focus lenses and hopeful futures. This film delivers something else; a childhood abandoned, altered and regained, a family teetering and stabilized, and a very sweet look at a young relationship, all somehow de-cheesed. In the end you can’t be sure if the character is more mature, or if she’s moved on, or if her future is at all brighter than if she’d chosen differently. You simply have to accept her story, as she seems to.

Oh, and there’s this cool, inexplicable furniture obsession that ties the whole thing together. I think.

Although I think there were several things about this movie that make it impossible-one of which is a 16-year old having the maturity to have a baby and move on from the whole experience (shallowness I might believe, but maturity?). I did like the change in the usual take on the teen pregnancy story.

Woe is me. Why do I keep going to these movies? Between this, Lars and the Real Girl, Darjeeling Limited, and that infernal Little Miss Sunshine, my head is about to explode with the self conscious oh-so-cutesy faux misfit-ness of it all. Talk about a fantasyland of suspended maturation. Don’t get me wrong- Juno made me chuckle and smile, I tapped my feet a little with the soundtrack, and I was genuinely impressed by the young star’s performance. Overall, “eh.”