Customer Reviews
Quirky-by-numbers - By: Robert Jardim, 10 Sep 2008 
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 - Lostin Translation, The Life Aquatic, & 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 younger than the main actors, as though Juno were the movie equivalent of those cheap plastic "my first kitchen" oven sets they sellin toy stores.
I use the term 'actors' loosely. It doesn't help that Ellen Page isn't a very good actress. Annoyingly sarcastic & smarter-than-thou throughout, she's instantly dislikable. Michael Cera is neither good nor bad, just seems to float along on whatever script is handed to him (he was hilariousin Superbad, but not soin this one).
It reminds me of an Apple commercial, particularly the recent line of iPhone ads - all slick & fake cutesy charm, distilled & dumbed-down, created for people who are more into style than substance, who want to be cool so much that they'll pay anything you ask them to. A victim of the filthy practice of marketing executives packaging "being different" & trying to sell it back to us.
Sorry, Juno, but I ain't buying.
Annoying and generic. - By: genejoke, 02 Sep 2008 
The makers of Juno seem determined to make it quirky & different & 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 & likable.
a good film about the dilemmas facing teenage mothers - By: dan the fan, 20 Aug 2008 
The dialoguein Juno was a bit unbelievable at times with teenagers talking so learnedly & confidently that it was hard to imagine they were teenagers finding their wayin the world.Ellen Page - who played Juno - putin a very engaging & 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 & garfunkel or were a poor attempt to imitate them.But overall I would recommend this film to you if you want to see something
humorous & sensible with good family valuesin it & a strong sense of morality, as well as having a nice little love story thrown in.
A pregnant pause... - By: M. Adil-smith, 18 Aug 2008 
Juno was is pretty good, & is about a 16 year old girl getting pregnant & giving the baby up for adoption. The story is quite warm, often funny. An all round good indie film with a great alternative acoustic sound tracker.
But throughout the film, no-one seems to take the pregnancy seriously, & 16 yr old Juno is far too sassy, & her parents far too supportive.
If you like Garden State, then give this a try.
Juno, the freshest film going! - By: Mutian, 18 Aug 2008 
Ellen Page plays the quirky teenager Junoin this hip drama/comedy. She leads an incredibly strong cast (Michael Cera, Allison Janney, Jennifer Garner, Jason Bateman & J.K. Simmons) through the 9 months of her pregnancy when she then plans to give the baby up for adoption to the seemingly perfect parents, Garner & Bateman, however, not all goes as planned & it ends up being an emotional rollercoaster with lots of laughs along the way. The film cleverly addresses the issues of abortion & teenage pregnancy without giving the message that teen pregnancy is easy. The feeling of the film echoes that of Little Miss Sunshine but both are completely different stories.
-The actors are superb (Never before have I seen such an ensemble that delivers the whole script so realistically)
-The script is unbelievably original (Written by Diablo Cody, Academy Award Winner for this film!)
-The soundtrack is better than on any other film I have seen (apart from musicals) featuring songs from The Moldy Peaches, Kimya Dawson, The Kinks, Antsy Pants & Barry Louis Polisar.
-It delivers laughs & moments of sadness without being cheesy & also sends good messages for a young target audience
-It's not a chick flick
I would recommend it to anyone & everyone looking for something to cheer them up or make them smile! Buy it!
