Juno

Sweet, smart, funny and charming but with many flaws. This could describe both the main character Juno MacGuff and the film as a whole. Billed in places as a clever feel-good comedy in the vein of last year’s Little Miss Sunshine, Juno has some of those qualities (the comedy and the feel-goodness) but is nowhere near as great as LMS.

The simple storyline is that Juno is a 16-year old girl with an unplanned pregnancy who decides to have the baby and give it up to adoptive parents. The film has many positives – all the scenes flow along nicely, the soundtrack is great and the characters are lovable. But I wasn’t totally impressed with some of the writing. I think the director and actors did great work at delivering the script but at times I cringed at the dialogue. Some of it seemed way too forced and contrived by the screenwriter. The film contained one of the worst lines I can ever recall: “Honest to blog?”.

Ellen Page is fantastic as Juno but even better is Michael Cera who gives another great understated comedic performance. I’ll award the film a harsh 5 crumbs out of 10.

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