Too cool for school

Rating: 5/10 (24 December 2007)

Normally, there is always one film each year that not only do I think is overrated by the critics, but is actually a BAD film. After watching the first half of this movie, I thought I found it this year in "Juno." IMHO, this film would have worked much better had they dialed back the oh-so-clever dialog just a little bit so that it could have been a bit more plausible and real. The first half of the film had the most unrealistic, heightened dialog I had seen in a film since the ridiculous "Brick" of 2006.
Thankfully, the second half came back more to the plot, and I found it to be surprisingly sweet at the end, and it salvaged the film for me.
I also find it interesting that as I write this review, the majority of negative user comments are more recent. This makes sense to me, because as more and more "mainstream" film goers watch this film, I think they're going to dislike many of the things that I also did not care for.