Don't expect too much, it's overrated

Rating: 5/10 (12 March 2008)

I was actually smiling when leaving the cinema, even rushing to get the soundtrack, the song Ellen and Michael played at the end is lovely, I almost bought it.
Then I sensed something wrong with the story when I thought about it later, the whole idea was...wrong... I guess, as many hated it reviewer had already pointed out, it's kinda superficial. And even we're shouting for some openness for parents about their teenagers' "accident" pregnancy(but as the step mom character pointed out she thought her step-daughter knew it"), the message it send out is not right. I'm not a religious person, and not a parent. But call me old-fashioned, the way Juno handled her accident pregnancy is so casual, she isn't sorry, and it seems there's no different to her vomited in the vase.
The Juno character acts beyond her age, but it's kinda annoying for me to see her talking like that, especially at the first scene in Mark & Vanessa's house. Maybe nowadays teenagers are like this, I don't know, and I'm not even living in the States. Part of it maybe I knew Ellen is already 20 and playing a 16 year-old character, and sometimes she acted like a cynical 30-something.
You just can't take this movie seriously, treat it like comic/cartoon/sci-fi, whatever you called it, just as those cartoons when a guy ran over by a car and become paper-thin, then pump himself up again.
And this is the best original script for the Oscars?!!
Btw, I still like the music in the movie, the music are indie? I don't know, I've never heard of most of the artists in the soundtrack but I've been listening to Belle and Sebastien(with 2 songs in the OST) for a few years, so I like the music, and it's about one's music taste, nothing related to the movie. And for the record on music taste, I think Atonement's music is a distraction to the movie.