A good movie that could have been better if only someone had proofed the screen play first.

Rating: 7/10 (11 May 2008)

So much to like about the movie, mostly about Juno (the actress and her lines). And yet, a couple small things:
1) It was just silly for the movie to suggest that Juno could give away her baby....without any sign-off by the father. It was his baby, too, something the "lawyer' surely would have known.
2) Speaking of the boyfriend, the movie was awfully short of details as to what kind of relationship he had with Juno when they had sex. Just friends? Boyfriend - girlfriend?
3) For a young man who seemed really nice and fairly mature, he sure was uninvolved in the baby. He took a rather extreme "it's your problem" approach. If he'd been a jerk, that would have sold, but he wasn't.
4) Course, Juno's parents were pretty uninvolved, too. Their reaction was more appropriate to Juno telling them she'd flunked a class and had to take a summer school course. "Ok, well, take care of it," was the parent's approach.
5) the big issue in the movie was 'what was Juno going to do with the baby?" Her first choice was abortion. So she goes to the clinic...and walks out in 5 minutes. A life changing change of mind. And just what caused the change? An obnoxious receptionist? Some lady drumming her fingers? It wasn't made clear. The change of mind would have been more convincing if it was more rational.