You can tell it was written in a chainstore coffee shop.

Rating: 5/10 (21 November 2012)

SPOILER ALERT! Caveat lector! For the benefit of anyone who has been living in a cave on Mars, and hasn't heard how this movie turns out, this is some rather spoilery stuff.
Look: I don't care for dramas that tug on the heartstrings. I don't care for clever, coy, cutesy-poo teenagers -- particularly those who talk the way 30-year-olds imagine the young people are jiving these days. I don't like situations that are so far from reality that words and titles have lost all meaning. There is a lot for me not to like in this film.
But PLEASE. A bold, intelligent, perfectly rational girl who is utterly devoid of embarrassment (she has loud conversations with the jerky store clerk about the pregnancy tests she is buying and peeing on right there in the store)...who planned for a year to have sex with her friend...did not, somehow, manage to consider birth control? REALLY? Not even the free condoms available at the women's clinic? The women's clinic, where she walked right up to the protester and had a casual conversation before heading inside and, for no reason, decided not to have an abortion when that had been her plan so far? So: a serious situation trivialized in a melodramatic and unfunny way, with a brainless character glorified for horrible, half-baked likes such as "Honest to blog"? No love.
Her working class parents have a "Well, Shucks" reaction that makes one wonder if Xanax was involved. When Samuel L. Jackson mocks Geena Davis in "The Long Kiss Goodnight" by saying, "Phooey, I burned the darned muffins," he was emoting far beyond these mellow folks. Same with her school. Folks, don't mistake Minnesota Nice for Minnesota Non-judgmental. It doesn't exist.
So basically, there is no pregnancy policy in her school, no social stigma, no complication to her health or pregnancy, no obstacle to treatment, no bills for medical services (tra-la!) -- and we are supposed to have anything invested in this charmless idiot? If you aren't going to give us a real girl, or a real situation, or even a real laugh, I'm not going to give a real damn. The only real character in the story is the honest swine who walks out on his marriage in order to be true to himself. Ugh.
I could go on all day about the idiocy, but let me sum it up with the fact that the character's name is Juno, after the goddess of motherhood.
She drives a Previa -- a real vehicle, but everyone should know "placenta previa" is a dangerous complication of pregnancy.
And her last name is MacGuff -- as in "MacGuffin", the term for a plot device that leads everyone around without having any weight or value. Just like the pregnancy in this movie.
I feel like the author was pretty openly stating that she doesn't care about the character, either. So why should we?