Juno

JUNO

Juno, a sixteen year old girl decides to experiment and have sex for the first time with Paulie Bleeker her friend and with no luck on her side gets pregnant. Juno has to decide what to do after visiting an abortion center and deciding she can not kill the baby because it already has nails. Juno then talks with a friend who tells her to look in the “Penny saver” for people who want to adopt. Juno comes across Mark and Vanessa Loring who have the money to support a child and looking to adopt. They look to be the perfect couple until Mark decides he still wants to follow his dreams and play music and destroys Vanessa’s dream in becoming a mom. Juno decides that Vanessa is still the perfect mother for the baby and decides to give her the baby anyways even know she will be a single mother. The movie ends with Juno and Bleeker discovering that they are more then just friends and the decision they made they will have to live with and grow from.

Juno has an amazing cast that consist of J.K. Simmons (Juno�s dad), Allison Janney (Juno�s step mom), Jason Bateman (Paulie Bleeker), Jennifer Garner (Vanessa Loring), Michael Cera (Mark Loring) and Ellen Page (Juno MacGuff) all have one thing in common , they are all cast of the brilliant movie JUNO written by Diablo Cody and directed by Jason Reitman JUNO is a movie that touches on the sensitive subject of teen pregnancy and how a teenager decides to deal with this un in the oven. The reviews on JUNO are mostly all positive and praising of the writer Diablo Cody.

Roger Ebert a well known critic who has been a movie critic for many years and an author of many book based on his movie reviews and the good movies and the bad ones. Ebert’s review about JUNO was written on December 14th 2007. The review was delightful and couldn’t get more positive then this review from Ebert. Ebert’s review is

very warm and loving he said “ Jason Reitman's "Juno" is just about the best movie of the year.” Ebert also said “So rare to hear a movie applauded.’, “It is so very rare to sit with an audience that leans forward with delight and is in step with every turn and surprise of an uncommonly intelligent screenplay.” he also said that this movie was smart, funny and touching. Ebert said that the movie had hip dialogue, and that Ellen Page had the best performance of the year. Ebert had nothing negative to say about JUNO he could not of praised this film or the writer and director as well as actors more then he did.

Another review from the Hollywood Reporter written by Kirk Honeycutt in December of 2007 wrote another positive review on this movie he said “Bottom Line: A funny and savvy comedy about a teenage girl looking for her place in the world.”, Honeycutt also said “"Juno" defies expectations at every turn, giving the slip to anything saccharine or trite or didactic, looking to its characters for insight and complexity, reveling in dialogue that is artificial yet witty and articulate and, most crucially, taking a presumably stale storyline and making it into a buoyant comedy.” Critic Kirk Honeycutt also gives a lot of positive credit to Ellen Page (Juno) for her performance. Just as Ebert had praised the writer and the director so dose Honeycutt, he also talks about how the language they use in this film is unique and how it has a hip eloquence.

Another critic who also had only positive things to say about JUNO is Peter Travers from Rolling Stone who also has a show on I tunes weekly where he talks about his movie reviews wasn’t as excited and upbeat about the movie but he did say “Juno is more than a few smiles вЂ" it makes you laugh deeply.” Travers like the other critics talks about how much of a wonderful job Ellen Page did playing Juno and how the writing was amazing as well as the directors work was.

the only negative reviws found were from bloggers who have said that the movie JUNO is wrong for not taking the matter of teen pregnancy more serious. Some bloogers have also said that they way that this movie comes off making it seen like the pregnancy isn’t a big deal and the attitude the character Juno has is unacceptable and the way that Mark comes on to Juno was uncalled for, But this is life, the way Juno acted was the only that this teen new how to deal with what was happening. Also many adults come on to teenagers this is not an uncalled for issue.

Even know JUNO had most positive critics it someone should of brought up the teen pregnancy issue it was mentioned in the reviews but the teen pregnancy issue is a man part of the movie, not many movies