Great acting - pity about the script

Rating: 5/10 (7 February 2008)

I was expecting a funny, involving film but instead found an extremely well acted film that, however hard it tried (and it did try a lot), just didn't make me care about any of the characters involved. Which is a shame. I only laughed 3 times. About 4 laughs less than the rest of the audience. And the fact that I counted the laughs shows how little I was drawn into the film as a whole.
I found the script to be far too self conscious for it's own good. I don't know if it was the writer's first film - but it certainly seemed like it. I guess I was expecting something similar to the offbeat brilliance of "Harold & Maude" and "Rushmore". If only it had been as involving as the coming of age classic "Breaking Away."
I was impressed by all the performers. They were uniformly wonderful. But overall JUNO is way over-rated.