LAist: Movie Review: Juno

TheRealZajac

Mon, 25 Feb 2008 02:53:21 -0800

Actually, it feels like it's taking place in Arcadia, California, if not for the snow. Hell, our high school track teams regularly do laps around the town and the liquor store clerks do act like Dwight Shrute.

raul

Fri, 07 Dec 2007 17:17:32 -0800

For the first fifteen minutes I dreaded what I was about to experience. If the rest of the movie was going to be like it, it would have been in my worst of 2007 list. Glib, smug and overly severely sarcastic, "Juno" was going to be a painful experience. Thankfully it developed a heart as Juno's pregnancy progressed until it ended on a sweet little note. It still tries too hard to be hip and clever, but Ellen Page's performance more than redeems it and ultimately it was a sweet, enjoyable movie. Slight and too proud of its own cleverness, but good enough.

blazingshark

Fri, 07 Dec 2007 16:00:18 -0800

i wonder if it comes off as being written by a chick, if so i'll surely hate it.

Josh Tate

Fri, 07 Dec 2007 16:00:14 -0800

Yeah, there's a good bit of Reitman, Page, Bateman, Garner and Cera in this movie...but a WHOLE lot of Diablo Cody. It's really her movie.

David Grossman

Fri, 07 Dec 2007 15:49:47 -0800

Hooray for strippers as well!

Lindsay William-Ross

Fri, 07 Dec 2007 15:34:45 -0800

it's also a movie written by a blogger (turned stripper turned author turned screenwriter) named Diablo Cody. yay for bloggers!