Cute and real

Rating: 9/10 (10 January 2008)

A little over a month ago, I was watching one of the movie channels on TV and Juno's premier was being shown and I recognized a few actors, obviously Jennifer Garner, Jason Bateman, and Ellen Page who made an incredible performance in 2005's Hard Candy. They started talking about Juno and what it was about and I just had to see this movie. It seemed like a great movie that was real and funny, just like last year's big hit Little Miss Sunshine. Finally after they finally released Juno in my town, I saw it a couple days ago and Juno truly did live up to my expectations, it's a very good film. Being Diablo Cody's first script, this was a great story, despite how common it is in real life, it shows the anxiety of being a pregnant teenager. Diablo shows this girl who isn't sure of herself now having to protect a human life growing inside her.
Juno is a 16 year old girl in high school, kind of a rebel who's in a band, she's just found out that she's pregnant. Paulie, her best guy friend, is the father, he wants to be with her and take care of her and the baby, but she just plays him off and says she'll just abort the baby. But when she goes to the clinic, she realizes something, maybe she could do something better, by giving the baby to a loving couple who will take care of it. She meets Venessa and Mark Loring, very rich, very put together, and offers them the baby pretty much immediately. But when she learns that Mark still has to grow up and Venessa is just dying to be a mom no matter what, she has a big decision to make while still trying to figure out what is love and who she is.
Juno is a great movie to start off 2008, it's cute, funny, heart warming, and real. Ellen Page was so terrific, I just know she's going to make it, I've been rooting for her, and I think Juno is the right kick off for her. Her performance as Juno was fantastic, she was so believable and you couldn't help but feel for her and feel bad for her on what she was going through in her high school. Ellen Page and Michael Cera are two young actors are shinning in today's films. Jennifer Garner, in my opinion, gives her best performance to date, she was so pretty and a wonderful character that had so much love to give. I highly recommend Juno, it's a well put together film that has a terrific story and was just a pleasure to watch.
9/10