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Juno [2007]
from 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
starring Ellen Page, Michael Cera, J.K. Simmons, Allison Janney, Jennifer Garner
directed by Jason Reitman

Features:

• PAL

Editorial Review:

Somewhere between the sharp satire of Election and the rich human comedy of You Can Count On Me lies Juno, a sardonic but ultimately compassionate story of a pregnant teenage girl who wants to give her baby up for adoption. Social misfit Juno (Ellen Page, Hard Candy, X-Men: The Last Stand) protects herself with a caustic wit, but when she gets pregnant by her friend Paulie (Michael Cera, Superbad), Juno finds herself unwilling to terminate the pregnancy. When she chooses a couple who place a classified ad looking to adopt, Juno gets drawn further into their lives than she anticipated.

But Juno is much more than its plot; the stylised dialogue (by screenwriter Diablo Cody) seems forced at first, but soon creates a richly textured world, greatly aided by superb performances by Page, Cera, Jennifer Garner and Jason Bateman as the prospective parents, and J.K. Simmons (Spider-Man) and Allison Janney as Juno's father and stepmother. Director Jason Reitman (Thank You For Smoking) deftly keeps the movie from slipping into easy, shallow sarcasm or foundering in sentimentality. The result is smarter and funnier than you might expect from the subject matter, and warmer and more touching than you might expect from the cocky attitude. Page's performance is deceptively simple; she never asks the audience to love her, yet she effortlessly carries a movie in which she's in almost every scene. That's star power. -- Bret Fetzer, Amazon.com

Customer Reviews:

• Avg. Customer Rating: 3.5 / 5.0

• Juno
  I like this film. It makes me feel young again Lol I love the juno character , she is so cool. Im defo going to buy this , i love it

• Quirky-by-numbers
  As a previous reviewer said, this film tries too had to be different. It's as though the film makers knew all the ingredients to make a kooky, weird independant film, but didn't know how to mix them together.
  I'm normally a fan of these types of films - Lost in Translation, The Life Aquatic, and all that - but despite its obvious desire to be highly charming, Juno just feels hollow. There's no emotional gravity, no real depth of character. You feel as though the target audience is the same age or... more info

• Annoying and generic.
  The makers of Juno seem determined to make it quirky and different and have made the same rubbish as numerous other so called independent movies. The music is a love it or hate it thing. I didn't like it. The dialogue is terrible, no one talks like thatm well a few people but not all the time. The onlt likeable character was the kid that fathered said sprog. he actually comes off as sweet and likable.

• a good film about the dilemmas facing teenage mothers
  The dialogue in Juno was a bit unbelievable at times with teenagers talking so learnedly and confidently that it was hard to imagine they were teenagers finding their way in the world.Ellen Page - who played Juno - put in a very engaging and cativating performance as a pregnant 16 year old who wants to give her baby up for adoption.I didn't like the soundtrack to the film - the songs were either by simon and garfunkel or were a poor attempt to imitate them.But overall I would recommend this film to you if... more info

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