Juno is less a comedy than a light-hearted drama, a film that makes you smile not because of the jokes any slapstick performances (although there are few), but showing us ways in which people react to realistic situations. In this case, a pregnancy.
Ellen Page, as the titular character, gives us one of the best performances of the year, as a chatty extrovert teen, delivering her lines extremely convincingly (yes, I know a few people who can talk like her) and is perhaps the single person who makes us smile most often. Yes, this film is almost carried entirely by her alone.
So, essentially, Juno gets pregnant after having boredom sex with her "best friend" and well, there you have the story. After deciding against an abortion (in a somewhat unconvincing scene), she decides to bring her baby to term. The rest is essentially about her finding and interacting with her adoptive parents, as well as with her friends and of course, parents (whose reaction to her news is somewhat unrealistic, but it's relative, of course).
Suffice to say, I enjoyed it, it made me smile and feel all nice and fuzzy, but truth be told, I was expecting more. Perhaps my expectations were rather high, but then again, there were other movies that met my high expectations. This was not it, unfortunately.
Still, a movie worth watching, if you're looking for some light hearted entertainment. This is most certainly not like, say Knocked Up (the more "mature" pregnancy comedy of this year) but it holds its on as a comedy. Oh, did I mention the soundtrack is quite neat, too?
Ellen Page, as the titular character, gives us one of the best performances of the year, as a chatty extrovert teen, delivering her lines extremely convincingly (yes, I know a few people who can talk like her) and is perhaps the single person who makes us smile most often. Yes, this film is almost carried entirely by her alone.
So, essentially, Juno gets pregnant after having boredom sex with her "best friend" and well, there you have the story. After deciding against an abortion (in a somewhat unconvincing scene), she decides to bring her baby to term. The rest is essentially about her finding and interacting with her adoptive parents, as well as with her friends and of course, parents (whose reaction to her news is somewhat unrealistic, but it's relative, of course).
Suffice to say, I enjoyed it, it made me smile and feel all nice and fuzzy, but truth be told, I was expecting more. Perhaps my expectations were rather high, but then again, there were other movies that met my high expectations. This was not it, unfortunately.
Still, a movie worth watching, if you're looking for some light hearted entertainment. This is most certainly not like, say Knocked Up (the more "mature" pregnancy comedy of this year) but it holds its on as a comedy. Oh, did I mention the soundtrack is quite neat, too?
4 comments:
Soundtrack = neat? It's *cough* indie *cough*. Anyway, I found it a bit of a letdown after so much hype.
I take that to mean the movie let you down? Haha...well, we have something in common then.
And yes, the soundtrack is "neat", although did you not see the irony that it did not contain any of the bands Juno said she liked?
mmm sounds like a movie i'd watch... =)
Oh, I reckon so :P
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