Terrible

Rating: 4/10 (9 October 2008)

This movie seemed to me to be more of a typical chick flick than anything. It seemed to be trying too hard to be ironic and to make the characters seem cute, but they didn't quite get it. The dialog reminded me a bit too much of Gilmore Girls on morphine, and the main character had such an ugly personality yet all of the supporting characters will jump out of their seats to defend her, and you will too simply because she is pregnant... But yet the most annoying part of this film, was the soundtrack. That music was just plain awful, and come to think of it really complimented the movie in that way, trying to be too ironic and cutesy, trying to spark emotions that aren't even there... and was all too repetitious and bland.
A movie is not a deep film just because they say it is. In fact, whoever called this Indie needs to be shot. Just watching the opening credits one can tell that this was a major budget movie masquerading as something unique. In fact, it was all too cliché and felt like it was written by somebody in their 40s pretending like they knew what being pregnant and 16 was all about, yet missing the mark by about 5 years in either direction. But, as being such a big budget movie as it was, they did at least get good acting, especially on the part of Jason Bateman... and Ellen Page was good at least with what she had to work with.
So, in short, if you are past your prime, and a female, this might be a good movie to watch and you might even enjoy it. But do not, under any circumstances, associate it with the words deep, cute, indie, ironic, or realistic. It just isn't right.