good for drama students who are insane

Rating: 1/10 (14 January 2008)

First and foremost this is not a comedy because it is not funny at all. There are attempts but they are all either understated (Cera) or overstated (everyone else). This movie is being hailed by critics (if they hate something it's usually pretty good) and teeny boppers alike. I say that the groundswell audience for this movie is high school/college age student actresses/actors who like Ellen Page and Michael Cera (as have I) and regardless of what drivel comes out on the screen they will preen and heap accolades their way. Come on, this movie was terrible; much of the dialogue emanated from one of the rudest and quite surprisingly contrived teenagers in recent memory. I know many teenagers of all ilks and none of them act, talk or remotely resemble Juno, thankfully. You may say great, cutting edge, that's what were looking for, essentially though you may be out of your mind, nobody want's to be or have a world filled with teenagers that joke about drinking gallons of sunny d and taking pregnancy tests at a local convenience store, joshing with the all inappropriate clerk (stupid sequence), parents who allow their daughter to say whatever she want's to anyone and never ever, god forbid make a judgment! Juno is full of #*&!, she throws around hip names such as Soupy Sales, The Stooges and Mott the Hoople and it is quite realistic that a teen could have an affinity for these bands/people, although they are not related genre or era wise, so it seems forced, she is trying to be too cool. Do all you wannabe actresses really want to be knocked up and telling people off all the time? How about throwing up and then dumping Big Gulps down your supportive step mom's urn, come on! People keep comparing this movie to Little Miss Sunshine and Napoleon Dynamite and you know that's wrong. Those movies were funny, this flick was absurd as were the other two but unlike Napoleon and Sunshine this tormentor was without a real funny moment in the entire movie. This movie took a serious subject and took a talented cast and turned them all into a bunch of unlikable wise-asses including the transformation of Jason Bateman from a sincere adult to a possible molester in about fifteen minutes. You folks who are in the drama club and think that you have something here, take pause because the critics and fans of Ellen Page etc. may give this movie some awards for No Good Reason but if you buy into this drivel and try to emulate it, someday you may regret it.