http://imdb.com/title/tt0467406/
A quirky movie that conveys the mystery of what I like to call teen angst. Pretty much the whole film was just as sarcastic as a junior in high school. Oddly enough, that's how old the main character Juno is, played by almost 21 year old Ellen Page (who plays the very young girl role pretty often, X-Men: The Last Stand and Hard Candy).
Juno is a "weird" girl that doesn't conform to the pressures of the regular "what's cool" attitude that pretty much every high schooler has. (Of course I was super cool in high school so I never had this stress, haha... <sigh>). She has sex with her friend Paul Bleeker (Michael Cera) more out of curiosity than anything else. She gets pregnant and decides to give the baby away to a couple played by Jennifer Garner and Jason Bateman but everything doesn't perfectly fall into place as she planned.
The beginning of the film was a little cheesy as they were over exaggerating the way that kids talk. Seemed more like what the 30yr old writers thought how high schoolers talked than the slang that they really do use. Or maybe I'm just so old that I have no clue how they talk anymore. The immaturity of Juno just seemed very annoying as well. It made me want to just kick her in the face when hearing her talk about her baby as if it were nothing. You'd think that getting pregnant and having a glimpse of what some adults even avoid would make her just a little bit more mature... but no. And at some point you just want to yell "Enough of the sarcasm!"
But all in all Juno was an enjoyable film.
Juno gets a 7 out of 10.

