It’s not often that I sit around in my chair feeling all bubbly and great about a movie that doesn’t have cool explosions or shooting in it, or dragons and beautiful elven women, or lots of cool katana-wielding (preferably dual, not that I can remember that happening much, except for in Elektra, but I try to forget that movie, and it wasn’t even real katanas!). Action in it that makes me go “OooOOooh”. Juno’s one of these few movies that makes me go “OoooOOooh”, it’s that amazing.
One of those sweet movies that there are so few of, the ones that makes you smile from start to finish, atleast in my case. The movie starts off with a quirky song you will probably want to listen to all the way (go listen to the song while you read the rest here), so it’s one of the few times I‘ve ever sat through the intro of a movie without skipping ahead or looking away. Ellen Page is so brilliant as the smart-mouthed pregnant teenager I kept waiting for the next time she’d open her mouth to say something that’d make me smile, which was practically all the time!
While Michael Cera isn’t very prominent throughout the movie he’s one of those guys that manages to pull of the silent geeky type in such an embarassingly awkward manner I’m this | | close to squirming. Cera’s the guy from Superbad, the one that didn’t yap non-stop, and he’s pretty awesome.
Unless you’ve gathered it so far this movie’s about a girl that becomes pregnant in her teens, after having sex with a guy she’s pretty obviously fond of, and how she and those around her deals with it. From a supportive friend to a step-mother with shitloads of backbone, and a father that’s so cool it’s scary, the movie bombarded me with a heartwarming cast supported by a long stream of witty lines and dialogues that completely threw me off, and made me border on giggling like a school-girl. No shit, it’s worth watching for just that.
Juno, the girl, decides, even before she tells her parents she’s pregnant, that she’ll adopt the kid away, and thanks to her adorable best-friend she does find parents pretty quickly. A couple with a baby-desperate woman (played by Jennifer Garner), and a laid back husband (Jason Bateman) trying to not offend or get in his wife’s way. Juno and the husband, Mark, quickly finds something in common with each other when she sees that he’s a guitarist, and they quickly form up a bond.
The wife’s considered the big oddball of those two throughout the movie, being portrayed like a weird desperate control-freak, and while we keep feeling the awkwardness about her during the movie it’s interesting how a few 5 minutes in the movie changes the whole picture. Well, not entirely. She’s still a baby-desperate weirdo, there’s no changing that.
I did mention the parents, the weird father, played by an amusing Simmons, that seems to take everything in stride and accepts just about everything in a calm manner. If I wasn’t so terribly fond of my own father I would definately put this kind of father pretty high on the list. It’s about the same with the step-mother (Allison Janney). She’s not portrayed like step-mothers usually are, this one’s really awesome, and another example of cool moms and bad ass attitudes.
Her best-friend’s (Olivia Thirlby) so adorable in her role (and cute as heck) as the supportive girl that’s behind her from day one to birth, another thing that made me smile, because in these movies the pregnant girl, or the odd girl, is usually pretty isolated in some way. So yeah, the cast and characters are simply mind-blowing.
Damn, I’m tired, and I want to sleep, so let’s put it like this: The whole cast’s awesome! The movie’s awesome! I can’t find anything bad about the movie! I’m still smiling! … it’s that good, and I hope to god that “No Country for Old Men” is downright insane to be considered better by the majority audience, because until I’ve seen it I am going to label this the best non-fantasy/sci-fi movie of the year (2007).
So yeah, Juno’s great. Too sweet to miss, it really is. That’s an awesome happy ending.
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