- This movie is getting all the Little Miss Sunshine buzz from last year, i.e. you know it will get nominated for a Best Picture Oscar to round out the five nominations with a comedy but it won’t in a million years actually win. It’s totally deserved, though, so I guess that’s okay.
- Truthfully, I thought it was pretty average for the first two-thirds. Well, I guess above-average since the dialogue is pretty hysterical and the characters are all very human, but not OMG BRILLIANT. But then the second Jason Bateman’s character says he’s leaving his wife (and people in the audience start gasping) it suddenly got infinitely better and I basically cried through the last third of the film.
- Speaking of which, Jason Bateman as a total asshole makes me sad.
- I thought Juno was mildly obnoxious intially, but the more I think about it I suppose she’s just an average mouthy teenager. I have difficulty relating to this because I was never an obnoxious mouthy teenager, so I get irritated when I see people behave like that.
- Paulie Bleecker, no one else wears those short shorts like you do. Michael Cera is once again playing a slight variation of George Michael Bluth, but he does it so well that I can forgive him for not branching out or for casting directors refusing to see any other sort of potential in him.
- I kind of want a hamburger phone.
- Jennifer Garner is really weird looking. I kept waiting for her face to cave in on itself. It was distracting.
- Are suburban yuppies really incapable of decorating their homes in anything other than shades of beige?
- It’s a happy ending but not a perfect ending, which I liked. I think they pulled out all the stops in trying to manipulate the fuck out of your emotions in the final few scenes (THEY END THE MOVIE WITH MICHAEL CERA AND ELLEN PAGE SINGING SILLY LOVE SONGS TO EACH OTHER WHILE THEY PLAY GUITAR TOGETHER) but I don’t care, it’s satisfying and cathartic.
- If you’re only going to see this film for Rainn Wilson, his entire role basically exists in the trailer. That said, there are a million other reasons to go see this movie, so if Rainn is what gets you there, then that’s fine too.
Juno
I don’t care if Diablo Cody is trying too hard, this movie is still fabulous.
IMDB Plot Synopsis Faced with an unplanned pregnancy, an offbeat young woman makes an unusual decision regarding her unborn child.