Cavalier treatment of a serious subject

Rating: 4/10 (4 March 2008)

I read the review by Isabelle1955, submitted on Jan 13, 2008. I agree with her completely. I do want to emphasize that I, too, was extremely uncomfortable by the cavalier way the people in the movie respond to the pregnancy. It is treated as an inconvenience, a mere delay in Juno's progress through high school, as if she had failed calculus and had to take it again next semester. In real life, it would have been an earthshaking event in everyone's lives. The young woman and her boyfriend would have been at their wit's end. And their parents would have been frantic, angry, and depressed, not "bemused."
Other misc. comments: The teen-talk and references have a short shelf life. This is by no means a film. that people will be watching in the future.
The sleazy portrayal of the abortion clinic reminds me that we do, indeed, have censorship in this country, even if it is implicit, not overt. You can bet that, if Reitman's high school girlfriend had become pregnant, she would have had an abortion.
By the way, I LOVED "Thank You for Smoking."