So witty it hurts.

Rating: 1/10 (16 December 2007)

I've already bought all the t-shirts available with "Juno" quotes on them. If they sold a Starbucks version of "Juno" coffee, I'd buy it; at least I'd be different from everyone else who buys that regular, popular Starbucks coffee.
Tongue-firmly-planted-in-cheek aside, this is an example of Hollywood's desperate attempt to prepackage garbage as an "indie" expression of postmodern irony. Well, who needs postmodern irony, anyway? We should all gaggle at the spectacle of "real" dialog and "witty" characters with a deep, profound sense of detached perspective.
This is derivative crap, and every character is an extension of the writer, and every line has been painstakingly poured over until it is "perfect", cuz that's how real life REALLY is. Well, movies aren't supposed to be "real life", but what's worse is when they pass this off as though it were, as though we're getting a special glimpse of it because we watched this MooVee.
This is a growing trend of "indie" features sold *before their release* as a "cult classics", a new stroke of Hollywood cynicism.
Give me no country with some old men.