Way overrated

Rating: 1/10 (21 April 2008)

I will try to explain what is wrong with this movie without spoiling any of it. It's not that it was a *bad* movie, it's just mediocre. How it could possibly win an award, I have no idea.
The movie centers around a quirky 16-year-old girl who gets pregnant and has to decide what to do with the baby. She is supposedly one of those "cool, laid-back, alternative chicks" who, as a consequence of being so cool, also has a bitchy attitude. Unfortunately, not only does her character not look the part, but her speech is completely wrong. Whoever wrote the dialog obviously hasn't been in high school for a long time; they mixed slang from various generations and various social groups who rarely borrow words from each other. Additionally, Ellen Page appears to be rather uncomfortable using this type of language. Most other aspects of the high school social scene were also misrepresented.
And the "alternative chick who likes horror movies and only listens to unpopular music because it's unpopular" cliché is too fake and played out.
The plot doesn't seem to have been thought out too well, either. Often it seems a character's unrealistic behavior is only to facilitate plot development. Most of the characters just don't act/react in a believable fashion. And what is up with Cera's practically autistic character? He hardly speaks at all in the movie, yet is a very important character. And these two are supposed to be best friends, yet they rarely talk (the only way I knew they were best friends was because they came right out and said it).
Aside from the completely unrealistic characters and the shaky plot, the movie was pretty much just boring. I found myself waiting for something interesting to happen through most of the movie. It is supposed to be a comedy and yet I only laughed a few times through it. Really, it's a drama.