Fast Talking But Heart Warming

Rating: 8/10 (5 November 2008)

I enjoyed this film a lot. The story is relatively simple. A schoolgirl gets pregnant and decides to put the baby up for adoption. She happens to be a wisecracking smart ass, perhaps enough to be really annoying. In fact she seems such a know it all you wonder how she got herself into this trouble at all! However the film makes it clear however that Juno, despite trying to be uber mature, is still just a young girl.
Have no doubt, this is a "feelgood" film. Nearly all the characters are basically decent people and the plot is tied up perhaps too neatly. The development of Juno's relationship with her step mother would nearly bring a tear to your eye alone. The different story lines in the film are combined well together by the director, such as Juno's relationships with the prospective adoptive parents and with the father of the baby.
Great performances all round really make the film. Page, Cera, Garner,Bateman, Janney and Simmons are all excellent. For a few laughs and maybe a few tears watch this film.