Pretend it's an obscure movie no one ever heard of

Rating: 9/10 (18 March 2008)

Bring an agenda to "Juno" and it's not going to work for you. If you want to hear dialogue that sounds "real," stay home. Compare it to the hype, and be ready to be let down. And don't expect it to be "Knocked Up."
"Juno" is a confection. It's a cotton candy movie. It's really just a fleeting moment in time when the radiant Ellen Page happened to intersect with a witty script by Diablo Cody. It trades on charm. Nothing else.
There are no lessons here, no real meaning. The peak emotional line in the movie is "He is the cheese to my macaroni." Yet it works. Juno on her bike with the guitar strapped to her back saying that line just did me in. If you cannot see why that is, you are blind and deaf to movie art.
BTW, having seen "Hard Candy," a completely different kind of movie, I can say Ellen Page is a force to be reckoned with.