I wanted to like this movie.
Honest to blog, I wanted to. You see, Diablo Cody (the writer of the movie) doesn't really know what subtlety is, or at least, in the first half of the movie. The dialog has been the most controversial aspect of the movie, some love it and some hate it.
Latter, for me.
Okay, maybe not hate per se. There's just something off about it. Nobody is that clever all the time, or at least, at 16. She seems to have a huge compendium of knowledge and yet remains strangely ignorant of even the most basic pregnancy terms which I found really confounding. Juno as a character just seemed like she was made up by a focus group. "Are pipes quirky? How about hamburger phones? What bands to quirky people listen to?" I thought Jennifer Garner's character was interesting though. She wasn't a caricature.
Also, the music. I got sick of it. The "I-love-you-indie-acoustic" songs. It was cute the first couple times, then it got a little grating, then it got to "I'm going to kill acoustic guitars. All of them." I mean, I'm into indie music but Christ, this was the most stereotypical indie you can find. There are in fact indie songs that have instruments that aren't just acoustic guitar. Who'd a' thunk it?
I give it a 5. It's not terrible, but it ain't all that good either.
Go watch Ghost World instead. Much better quirky girl movie.
