Emmmmmm

Rating: 6/10 (4 January 2008)

I really wanted to love this movie, so maybe that's why it disappointed me. I loved the supporting characters, and really liked Ellen Page as Juno, but felt the story/character tried too hard, too obviously to be "cool." Juno was great as a cynical, hard-ass high-schooler, but the rest of her life was not consistent with her own. The school scenes, with disapproving teens swarming away from Juno....come on.... I went to high school in the late 70s and no one reacted that way, no students at least. Allison Janney, Ellen Page, the actor who played the father were all excellent. The adoptive parents had roles which the actors, or the writing, couldn't sustain... I suspect it was the writer.....