Diablo Cody, please work on writing dialogue.

Rating: 2/10 (22 July 2008)

I gave this film as many stars as I gave it because it had a likable cast and was at least a fairly fun movie to sit through.
There are a few things wrong with this plot. I find it hard to believe that a seemingly bright teenager skipped the crucial step of using birth control. I'd have found this movie much more believable and intriguing if they used birth control and she still ended up getting knocked up. I thought the film could have had deeper message regarding teenage sex and pregnancy, but the entire film was fluff like cotton candy at the fair. Throughout the film I thought Juno was just another average teenager, but with a very obnoxious way with words.
Yes, the dialogue. The heinous screenplay. The worst part of the movie, even over the iffy plot. I don't know how miserable Diablo Cody has been over the past ten years, but this isn't the work of a woman who remembers how teenagers really talk. Juno talks just like her stepmother. Everybody in the story talks the same or at least similar. And Diablo Cody is on myspace flaunting her undeserved statuette. The losing nominees are angry.
That's not to say that the "wittiness" didn't get to me in a positive manner. I laughed at some parts. I laughed at Paulie Bleeker's race car bed, but not at Juno's stupid hamburger phone, an instance where she absolutely HAD to address it on the other line.
This is hardly one of the greatest films in 2007. Or ever. And far from the best original screenplay. Academy, are you on drugs?