Meet Juno. She’s the kookiest and most eloquent sixteen-year-old you’re ever likely to meet.
There’s only one problem. She had a bit of the other and now has a baby on the way.
Now I don’t know about you, but at sweet 16 I’d go into meltdown at the thought of parenthood. While Juno doesn’t quite embrace the mother thing full on, she doesn’t actually do badly at all.
In fact, I feel quite proud of her. Even if she IS a fictional character. Check this video out to see why.
J.
Good review!
This is also the movie Michael Cera and Jason Bateman got together again in a project since Arrested Development.
I quite liked the ’super-verbosity’ - it’s one of those stylistic flavours that adds another level of verbal wit into a movie, without making the characters seem any less ‘real’ than they are by being in a movie in the first place.
Some films push this feature very much to the front and do brilliantly off it, in quite unexpected contexts: I mean, just listen to Pulp Fiction…
That was a teriffic review of Juno, well thought out and accurately described. I loved the film, and I agree the dialogue was at times verbose and unbelievable that 16-year olds could speak that way. Having said that the script was so witty and delivered by such great performances, that I soon stopped being concerned about that and went on to love the the characters and story. What I most enjoyed about the film was the way it took a serious subject (teenage pregnancy) and explored it in such a compassionate, funny and entertaining way, without trivialising it. It was also an extremely moving film and I look forward to watching it again.
Thanks for the review,
Tony Hollingsworth
Awesome review but I found the film a little disapointing, My Father would freak if my little sister got pregnant - a little to ‘hearty’ for me, great script though!
Good review, probably better than the movie. The finely drawn character development, well written, heart tugging story and lack of guns or aliens tell me to wait for the network release to tivo this.