boe_dye sez: So this is Oscar worthy...wow...

Rating: 5/10 (19 March 2008)

It certainly wasn't all that great to tell you the truth...
In all honesty, what it lacked in any type of character growth or maturity it made up for in cliché'.
I suppose that my wife and I have an unfair advantage in watching this, because when we got married, and then found out she was pregnant, we made a decision to give our child up for an open adoption.
So we can realistically tell you step by step the motions and the pregnancy...
However this is Hollywood, and a movie, so we weren't seeing this expecting realism. However for something that everyone was raving about, it would have been nice to see some type of, i don't know, rising action.
For the most part the film was a flat line of sameness over and over again. It was very bland and kinda dull.
Ellen Page, was sarcastic and a typical genX'r the entire time. The characters were pointless and showed no real emotion the entire time, and. Jennifer Garner was a cliché' mom, who was all "baby baby baby!".
Both male counterparts, were the most depressing of all. Neither one of them were involved in any aspect of the pregnancy. The fellow who knocked up Juno in the first place, couldn't seem to care less either way.
It was no emotion what so ever, which you could sadly argue is many male reactions, however his character just didn't seem the type to be like. "Wow, your pregnant... Huh... Well, i have to go jog with my team mates... See you at the end of the film..." Even Garners husband made very little sense, considering that he was the one who got the ball rolling in the first place.
And that was about it. Every single scene was just one cutting remark after another from EVERYONE. I guess we are supposed to believe that this chick is carrying a child and everday for nine months, all she gets to hear is one snap after another from her mother, her father, and everyone else in her life.
In the end, i just couldn't wait for this film to be over.
Too sarcastic, too cynical, too cliché', and really pointless in the end.