Poor example for the future generations

Rating: 3/10 (25 February 2008)

I will admit right up front, OK so the dialogue was clever, the acting was interesting the main character was sassy but with the emotional range of a turnip. I DID NOT like this film. Why I hear you ask. The truth? Its an over-rated phoney! A smart, clever, sassy know it all, 16 year old teenager but without the sense to practice safe sex, gets pregnant has baby, decides to go for abortion but changes mind at last minute, offers the baby up for adoption, everyone lives happily ever after. Come on!!! Am I living on a different planet to everyone else? What is entertaining about that? You call that an original story? You see hundreds of made for TV movies with the same story.
In a society where promiscuity, HIV & Aids, sexually transmitted disease and teenage pregnancy are prevalent, where large chunks of society are living in poverty or close too we are extolling the virtues and morals or lack thereof of Juno. What example is this giving to the future generations? Everyone does not end up happy ever after in most cases nor doe everything turn out right. This is not what happens in real life Doesn't anyone see the problem this movie is going to cause with the teenage girls in the real world who are the same situation are facing, without a family to support them that Juno has in this movie, not to mention glamorising teenage pregnancy and promiscuity. I do not call this entertainment, its not funny, its distressing that humour can be found in such a subject.
OK, so this movie is also showing the plight of many couples whom have problems conceiving children and have to adopt and the emotions involved but really, making a comedy of such a serious subject.
Oh hang on, now I get it, this film would not have been such a hit had the writers not been on strike!!!