I've never wanted to punch a pregnant girl's stomach so badly...

Rating: 4/10 (10 June 2010)

I rented Juno with high hopes of finding a quirky, humorous film that would live up to all of the hype that it received and what a I witnessed was a hack job on all sides of the spectrum. The writing (by former stripper, Diablo Cody) seems to be a soulless mess of simplistic wit and obscure references. Juno is hardly a teenage girl, much less any kind of a movie character. If she's supposed to be this smarmy teenage girl who follows her heart and is her own kind of person, wouldn't she be a little bit devastated to realize that she was pregnant? I guess not, since she handles it like she just got the stomach flu. Does this not send the message to teenage girls that "HEY KIDS! It's okay to be pregnant at your age, because your creepy step mom who collects dog pictures and stupid blonde friend won't mind at all and your life will be totally undisturbed except for the weirdo yuppies that want to adopt your kid." Honestly? The acting leaves much to be desired. Ellen Page does very little with the leading role (not that there was much for her to work with). Michael Cera is bland (as usual). The final thing in this movie that I hated beyond all meaning was the indie track that played in the background that made my ears want to bleed. LEARN HOW TO TUNE A GUITAR PEOPLE!