Slight Spoiler warning: don\'t read this if you still want to see this movie:Really enjoyed it. Very cute movie. Yeah, I said cute and I mean it in the original definition: keenly perceptive or discerning, shrewd. It also had some hysterical dialogue.
I thought the soundtrack was great: despite the fact that Juno seemed to be a punk fanatic, the soundtrack was so very unpunk (acoustic, female, almost child-like melodies with mature themed lyrics). Seemed to go so well w/ the overall theme of the movie.
I love both the actors that played her parents (Allison Janney & JK Simmons). They\'re both classic "midwest" character actors, that always seem to standout. One of my favorite scene\'s was when she went for that Ultrasound and the Allison Janney character launches into the "technician" for making an inappropriate comment.
A friend from work mentioned that her teenage son had complained about Juno\'s dialogue, saying that teenage girls don\'t talk like that. In a way I gotta agree, I mean none of my teenage cousins talk like that. I kind of expected to see that the movie had been written by a man. The movie seemed to lack that feminine feel... up until Jennifer Garner flipped the switch from humorless corporate robot, into "Mom" at the end of the movie. Then I see that the writer was a former Lettermen writer named Diablo Cody, who looks surprisingly like Ellen Page (check out this picture of them together:
http://www.imdb.com/media/rm2804652544/nm1959505). With a name like that, I\'m thinking there are some autobiographical elements to the story.
I also thought that one of the interesting parts of the story was how things developed between the Jason Bateman character and Juno and how she seemed to be the driving force behind him realizing how his life had gone in a direction that he wasn\'t happy with. While it seemed easy to demonize him (his timing couldn\'t have been worse), but when you step back, those two weren\'t right for each other.
