Excellent Movie  Acting is superb, you really feel for the characters

Rating: 10/10 (28 April 2008)

After watching this movie for the first time last night, this has become one of my new favorite movies. I am usually fairly critical of movies, but this gets a solid 10/10 from me. Other users have called this just another College Student Quote Fodder movie, such as Nepolian Dynamite or Superbad. In my opinion, Juno is far above both of those movies.
Yes, it does have some of that. One-liners like "He's the cheese to my macaroni" are very definitely scattered throughout this movie. But it has a lot of feeling to it, where movies such as the aforementioned do not. Perhaps the most touching scene is at the end where Michael Cera is holding Ellen Page in his arms while she's in the bed in the maternity ward.
Page is absolutely perfect for this part. She portrays the intelligent, mature, and witty teenage girl role amazingly well. The character itself is so deep and has so many dimensions, it's hard to not become enthralled with her.
On the other hand, I thought Cera's character needed to be more developed. He was a very weak character, without much to him. The issue of his parents not liking Juno was a good start, but there could have been more.
Many comments I've read have said that Garner's role (the yuppie mom to-be) was their favorite. Personally, I found her character to be awkward and sort of hard to watch. I understand how she was rather dumbfounded at what to do or say regarding Juno, but it was a part that I don't think she was particularly well suited for. Her husband, however, played his part very well.
This movie really focused on Juno. That was good, and it made for a great look into Page's character, but, honestly, the other characters could have been replaced with just about anyone else for how underdeveloped they were. Cera did a good job as the quiet boyfriend, but a look into his thoughts or the dynamic between him and his parents would have been great.
At first I found the slang they used a little off-kilter, but it eventually fit in. The only times I thought it didn't really fit were in the opening sex scene when Cera says "wizard" and when Page describes Cera as being a "boss boyfriend." Other than that, though, the dialect between characters was fine.
As a side note, my favorite line from the whole movie was, by far, when Juno calls the abortion clinic and says "Hi, I'm calling to procure a hasty abortion." Such a witty comment, and for someone so young. It really made me chuckle.