Not that good

Rating: 4/10 (14 April 2008)

8.2 is extremely overrated for this film. I suspect most of the high votes are from all the fangirls who like to see Michael Cera.
First off, it's not really a comedy as listed in the genre tags, it's really just a drama with some attempts at comedy. The funniest part was the cameo of Dwight Schrute from The Office and even that part was over the top fake - just a series of one liner jokes. All of the characters are just shallow in their development, the main character, Juno was scripted as just someone who attempts to comment on everything with a one line joke, most of which are just dumb, and all are extremely unrealistic. Whoever wrote the script forgot to write these jokes as part of the character, instead it feels like Diablo Cody had all these jokes he wanted to say in a movie and just tagged them on to the lines of Juno's character.
Michael Cera is his typical self, which is to say, not acting at all. The way he talks, his character, his mannerisms are the same as every single movie he's in, which again is just proof that he is not an actor, just a pretty face all the fangirls want to see on screen. When he actually takes on a role different than just playing his everyday self on screen, I will have some respect for him as an actor. Jennifer Garner and Jason Bateman were the two best performers in this film, especially Bateman. They at least fleshed out their characters well and gave a sense of realism to their roles.
Overall, it was a typical indy, pretty boring slice of life film with nothing entertaining in it. Very misleading score.