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Review #3: Juno (2007)
Juno, who hasn't seen Juno ? Probably I...until yesterday.
I finally got to see the popular coming of age film "Juno", I've heard about it for so many years but I've never bothered to check it out. Juno is a film about a girl named Juno (played by Ellen Page), who got pregnant by her best friend Paulie Bleeker (played by Michael Cera). She is still in high school, therefore she feels as if she's not ready to be a mother yet and raise an infant.
Everyone in the film does a great job playing their character, and that's exactly what this film consists of, a bunch of characters that are very unrelatable (at least to me). Pretty much everyone has a very sarcastic and dry attitude while confronting the issue of teen pregnancy, the reaction of her parents is impossible, the reaction of her friends is unrealistic, the reaction of the damn dad is so....did he even have a reaction ? Nope. Even her own demeanour is inappropriate.
There's also a lack of relationship development between some of the characters, for example, Juno and Bleeker's connection is very under developed, in fact he isn't even in the movie as much as someone would believe.
Now that we got all of that out of the way, I've actually enjoyed "Juno" quite a lot. Once you understand that the film doesn't give a proper representation of what pregnancy is like, you can just dive in to this world and join in for the fun.
This had a lot of good stuff going for it, such as the humour, I found myself laughing out loud for the most part, even though it's pretty hard to get that out of me. I really enjoyed the characters and their persona, like I said before they literally were a bunch of characters, and it's pretty funny and entertaining to watch them behave. The screenplay is what made this film so enjoyable so I gotta give the writers and the director a pat on the back for that.
I'm not gonna call this a "phenomenal masterpiece", or the "funniest coming of age film eveeeeer", because it's not, it has issues, but I would definitely suggest it to anyone especially teens. So for me, this gets a B+
It is very humorous and entertaining, so go and check out "Juno" if you haven't....I doubt you didn't though, I'm probably the only one that's this late to the party.
Juno, who hasn't seen Juno ? Probably I...until yesterday.
I finally got to see the popular coming of age film "Juno", I've heard about it for so many years but I've never bothered to check it out. Juno is a film about a girl named Juno (played by Ellen Page), who got pregnant by her best friend Paulie Bleeker (played by Michael Cera). She is still in high school, therefore she feels as if she's not ready to be a mother yet and raise an infant.
Everyone in the film does a great job playing their character, and that's exactly what this film consists of, a bunch of characters that are very unrelatable (at least to me). Pretty much everyone has a very sarcastic and dry attitude while confronting the issue of teen pregnancy, the reaction of her parents is impossible, the reaction of her friends is unrealistic, the reaction of the damn dad is so....did he even have a reaction ? Nope. Even her own demeanour is inappropriate.
There's also a lack of relationship development between some of the characters, for example, Juno and Bleeker's connection is very under developed, in fact he isn't even in the movie as much as someone would believe.
Now that we got all of that out of the way, I've actually enjoyed "Juno" quite a lot. Once you understand that the film doesn't give a proper representation of what pregnancy is like, you can just dive in to this world and join in for the fun.
This had a lot of good stuff going for it, such as the humour, I found myself laughing out loud for the most part, even though it's pretty hard to get that out of me. I really enjoyed the characters and their persona, like I said before they literally were a bunch of characters, and it's pretty funny and entertaining to watch them behave. The screenplay is what made this film so enjoyable so I gotta give the writers and the director a pat on the back for that.
I'm not gonna call this a "phenomenal masterpiece", or the "funniest coming of age film eveeeeer", because it's not, it has issues, but I would definitely suggest it to anyone especially teens. So for me, this gets a B+
It is very humorous and entertaining, so go and check out "Juno" if you haven't....I doubt you didn't though, I'm probably the only one that's this late to the party.