She's Having A Baby sort off...

Rating: Null/10 (12 December 2007)

Juno- Oh those witty pregnant teens. It was okay actually, the dialogue was funny, but pretty stilted after a point, specially towards the end. I wasn't really looking forward to going to the free screening, but I was pretty entertained the whole way through, it was better than I expected. A lot of movies aiming for endearing cute quirkyness are either stale or forced, or transparent. And though this was guilty of all of those at times, they are not too numerous to drag it down completely. Better than "She's Having A Baby", it's most immediate rival, which indeed it excels beyond in terms of range of human drama. The end, for all it's adorability still strikes a wrong chord with me, like the ending of Garden State, it's becomes overwhelmed with sentimentality, which is supposed to excuse the lack of honest resolution, the film has made it's heart, "what is going to happen to this quirky young pregnant girl", apparently nothing too drastic, she get's a boy she likes and continues as normal. The most important theme of this film is responsibility, not the actual pregnancy, but how different people at different points in their life are at different levels, which they and they alone can truly determine, which is refreshing in it's own way. I wouldn't go out and rent it again, but if it came on TV I wouldn't immediately turn.