A Genre Should be Named after this Movie - because it will fit in Romantic, Teen, Comedy & Drama & all of that

Rating: 10/10 (7 February 2008)

Review: This is the most enjoyable movie so far in 08. Sweeney Todd is good too, but this is more of the feel good kind. The centric role of the movie, played by Ellen Page, as Juno, is a 16 year old teen high schooler and a hard ass at that. She is not the gorgeous cheer leader or the slutty bitch every guy wants... She is the girl next door or even less average compared to the girl next door if you will. Her mom is divorced and sends her a cactus every valentine's day... Her dad, who is actually very cool, is into hardware, she has a step mom who has a liking to dogs and a sister by way of her step mom.. This is more than you would want to know about everyone except Juno.... Juno is the cool, smart and laid back teen that you see everyday and gets pregnant the first time she tries IT with Bleeker (Michael Cera)...
The movie begins with Juno performing a multitude of pregnancy tests.. After confirmation, she tries to get the baby undone and later decides against it... She wonders about giving the baby to adoptive parents who are in real need... The scene where Juno breaks open the news of her pregnancy to her parents is a laugh riot... Her friend, played by Olivia, is the remarkably naive and equally aloof friend of Juno and does a nice job.. she is one the many characters who fit the bill and makes you wonder "Casting is seriously a department in Movie Making". Juno finds Jennifer Garner and her husband to be her child's adopters.... The emotions, funny ones mostly, that Juno goes through and her daily routine up until she delivers the baby is the movie in its essence.... Juno takes a liking to Garner's husband because both of them have a lot in common when it comes to topics ranging from the wood used in making the guitar to the Wizard of Gore... The movie, fortunately does not take the ugly turn, if you know what i mean.. A little later, Garner's husband gets cold feet when the delivery day nears and they actually files for divorce for reasons not shown in broad light...
Juno, unable to find faith in humanity after being a spectator to Garner's life, has a talk with her father.... Juno, as the teen who realizes the fact that life is not all about being cool and smart and witty mouthed, expresses her confusion so vividly... After the talk with her father, she finds real love is actually with Bleaker.... In the meanwhile, a few other incidents happen which i might have missed in this review... its simply because all the scenes were natural and felt important and obviously i cant remember them all.... Ellen Page's performance as Juno might well be the best female lead performance you might see this year.... She is so cute.. at least to me :) When she finally says "Bleaker is the cheese to my Maccaroni", you know you have seen a good movie... The only minus to this movie could be, some times at hind sight, i feel that Ellen might have tried a bit harder to be cool in the movie... but thats OK.... and also, May be the movie was so real, actually, overdose of reality may be, could be the other drawback if you need a reason to reduce the points of this movie....
See this movie at any cost, for, what ever your frame of mind is, its only bound to improve on the positive side.... Please watch it................................bye!