Diabolical. Cody.

Rating: 4/10 (2 January 2010)

I find it unusual that this movie won an Oscar for Best Original Screenplay, as it isn't really that original, Knocked Up and Junebug are just two variations on the same theme.
The plot follows Juno McGuff as a precocious teenager, who's actually a bit of a bitch, who spouts pithy dialogue throughout like it's a 91-minute episode of Dawson's Creek and gets impregnated by her geeky boyfriend (Michael Cera) simply because she was bored and didn't want to watch "The Blair Witch Project". Juno contemplates abortion, but upon discovering that babies have fingernails she decides to adopt to picket fence couple Jason Bateman & Jennifer Garner, but not all is perfect beneath the facade.
The main bone of contention I had with this movie is that I really didn't care about Juno. She is very unlikeable, especially the way she speaks to people with complete disrespect, particularly her parents (J. K. Simmons & Alison Janney). There's constant references throughout to cool music, cool movies and cool figures of pop culture, but this doesn't make Juno a cool movie. Although there's good acting from the ensemble cast, the male characters are written one-dimensionally, especially Jason Bateman whose husband to Jennifer Garner is a pathetic incarnation of a man forced to keep his dreams and ambitions in a locked box with his balls. The movie also fails to tie up it's loose ends as you'd like it too and the soundtrack is spattered constantly with twee Belle & Sebastian-esquire crap.
Teenage girls will probably adore this movie, but this reviewer found it to be tawdry overrated (Mc)guff. It's also decidedly irresponsible as there is no ordeal, it's just a minor inconvenience of Juno's life which she manages to brush aside before the closing credits and she can get back to playing guitar with Michael Cera. Twee Twee Twee.
Watch Knocked Up instead, it captures the emotions of pregnancy a hell of a lot better without constantly reminding us how cool it is with it's "in touch with the kids" dialogue.