ill conceived

Rating: 3/10 (21 January 2008)

I nearly didn't make it through the opening credits. The soundtrack is painfully bad.
Then the portrayal of the abortion clinic as a horrible place was such anti-choice propaganda I nearly stopped watching again. Her pregnancy is of course shown as trouble free and unrealistically easy.
The main problem is : Juno is incredibly irritating. She's meanspirited. I would never want to adopt a baby with her genes. (& from someone too stupid to use protection). The decisions she makes are so spur of the moment, that a little thing changes her mindeither way. Michael Cera is 1-dimensional, unintelligent & does nothing but eat tictacs. Jennifer Garner is also 1-dimensional obsessed only with having a baby.
The dialogue is completely unrealistic. No one talks like that. Especially, no female (and hopefully no male) would ever refer to breasts as "fun bags". The whole film tries WAY too hard to be 'hip'.
And the writer seems to think she needs to follow the Clerks/indie model of discussing films and songs to show how hip and indie she is. (p.s. the Melvins are the *ONLY* band I have ever heard BOOED on stage).
The forced last minute changes to make a 'happy' ending are incredibly weak and seem to come out of nowhere.
I might've snickered twice. Not amusing. Maybe if it had been billed as a tragedy....
P.S. I took off another star after I learned this was ripped off from another movie called "jeni juno".