This Juno is not cold!

Rating: 10/10 (28 January 2008)

The quirky revolutionary comedy "Juno" has impregnated the birth of the verbose juggernaut of our present youthful society in cinematic screens. Writer Diablo Cody's innovative screenplay is a call to present to us how many of our teenagers and young adults dingo the lingo. Before I let more of the Diablo inside of me and marvel on the wonder of Cody's screenplay, let me inform you the embryonic state of the "Juno" plot. The articulate Ellen Page plays Juno MacGuff, a high school teenager who gets pregnant and wishes to give the baby up to child-seeking parents who are wealthy & mature enough to care for the offspring. Juno is a prototypical cerebral 2007 teenager, who even though she speaks a modern & idiosyncratic lingo and demonstrates a mature demeanor, she still possesses the archetypal egocentric characteristics of a high school teenager. Juno was given the "stickin to the cliting" by her introverted best friend Paulie Bleeker. Paulie is in his high school's track team but he does not run away from Juno's oven ordeal. Leah is Juno's best friend and I will be "leahying" if I said she did not act like your typical Americana teenager. Mac MacGuff is Juno's understanding & supporting pop who does hold some reservation on "le pregno situation" but still stands by Juno in her baby steps decisions. Bren is Juno's stepmother who is open to the times so she also lends a helping hand. Mark & Vanessa Loring are the yuppie couple who made the Juno cut and will parent the Mini-Juno once it makes it earthly debut. These are the zany but charismatic characters of "Juno" and thank God they entered our cinematic existence. The ensemble acting of "Juno" was uno for the thespian ages. Ellen Page's performance as the title character was the best I have seen this year by a female actress. J.K. Simmons and Allison Janney's work as Mac & Bren was an acting planned parenthood that delivered. Jason Bateman & Jennifer Garner adopted some positive acting points in my book portraying Mark & Vanessa Loring. I especially thought that Bateman was phenomenal and there was some "arrested development" going on when he did not make the cut of the Best Supporting Actor Oscar nominations. What can I say but "Que Cera, Que Cera" for upcoming young actor Michael Cera's "unbleaky" performance as Paulie Bleeker. Olivia Thirlby also thrilled me with her work as Juno's BFF Leah. I guess after all hipster Director Jason Reitman was the right modern man for the job to deliver the birth of "Juno". I am glad the film's producers made the right house calls in selecting Reitman as the film's auteur. But I must return to hell and feed you more Diablo; because Cody's ingenious screenplay was the lump that made "Juno" grow into one wondrous comedic doodle that can't be undone. So take a bite out of your time by visiting Juno MacGuff and company. "Juno" what I mean! ***** Excellent