← Back to Reviews
in
Juno
I went into this filming hearing some mixed reviews about it (not from critics), but I was looking forward to it. And I must say that I wasn't really disappointed by it at all. Everything worked well together in the film to make very solid and entertaining show.
The best part of the film was the characters in the film. Most notably is Ellen Page with her very strong performance as Juno in the film. She doesn't quite pull off 16, but in light of the film, her pulling that off isn't extremely important. Michael Cera, Jason Batemen, and Jennifer Garner also all did extremely good jobs in the film. Garner's performance was only solid, but Cera and Batemen both did very good jobs in their roles really playing their characters extremely well. I also have mention J.K. Simmons for his job as Juno's father, and say that I enjoyed his character a lot in that film.
Batemen's character in the film probably was my favorite in that I can sympathize with it in many ways. I'm not nearly as far off what I want to do as he was (farther in terms of he was doing sort of what he wanted to do, something with music, but I'm not nearly as far along into my life as he was). But his character was good because while the other characters all seemed to improve as the film went along, Batemen's character never had that point where he had his moment of realization and became a better person, because in reality, not everyone makes that change.
One complaint about the film that I have to somewhat agree with is at the beginning of the film the dialog seems to be a little full of slang and tries to sound cooler then it needed to. I think that it is generally realistic, being from Minnesota I recognized a lot of it and have heard people use it, but in film a realistic film (especially in the area of dialog) generally has to be more toned down for the audience to accept it as realistic as compared to what it is really like in actual life. And the story itself, while nothing extremely new, wasn't bad at all, and it was a very good retelling of it.
Overall this is one of the best films released in 2007 that I have seen (probably the best, but I haven't seen No Country for Old Men, Atonement, Caution, Lust, or There Will be Blood and possibly some others that would rival it). It is an entertaining film that takes a look at a tabboo in society, and it does so with a very well written story.
Overall Grade: A-
Acting: A+
Story: A
Audio/Visual B+/A- (the sound was great as was the sound track, but there were a few cliche shots, notably at the end, that could have been done better)
I went into this filming hearing some mixed reviews about it (not from critics), but I was looking forward to it. And I must say that I wasn't really disappointed by it at all. Everything worked well together in the film to make very solid and entertaining show.
The best part of the film was the characters in the film. Most notably is Ellen Page with her very strong performance as Juno in the film. She doesn't quite pull off 16, but in light of the film, her pulling that off isn't extremely important. Michael Cera, Jason Batemen, and Jennifer Garner also all did extremely good jobs in the film. Garner's performance was only solid, but Cera and Batemen both did very good jobs in their roles really playing their characters extremely well. I also have mention J.K. Simmons for his job as Juno's father, and say that I enjoyed his character a lot in that film.
Batemen's character in the film probably was my favorite in that I can sympathize with it in many ways. I'm not nearly as far off what I want to do as he was (farther in terms of he was doing sort of what he wanted to do, something with music, but I'm not nearly as far along into my life as he was). But his character was good because while the other characters all seemed to improve as the film went along, Batemen's character never had that point where he had his moment of realization and became a better person, because in reality, not everyone makes that change.
One complaint about the film that I have to somewhat agree with is at the beginning of the film the dialog seems to be a little full of slang and tries to sound cooler then it needed to. I think that it is generally realistic, being from Minnesota I recognized a lot of it and have heard people use it, but in film a realistic film (especially in the area of dialog) generally has to be more toned down for the audience to accept it as realistic as compared to what it is really like in actual life. And the story itself, while nothing extremely new, wasn't bad at all, and it was a very good retelling of it.
Overall this is one of the best films released in 2007 that I have seen (probably the best, but I haven't seen No Country for Old Men, Atonement, Caution, Lust, or There Will be Blood and possibly some others that would rival it). It is an entertaining film that takes a look at a tabboo in society, and it does so with a very well written story.
Overall Grade: A-
Acting: A+
Story: A
Audio/Visual B+/A- (the sound was great as was the sound track, but there were a few cliche shots, notably at the end, that could have been done better)