Sorry, but with the rave reviews this movie got, I was expecting lots more. Yes, on an entertaining level, I was able to stay with the movie. It was alot more intresting than a Jackie Chan flick. But as far as being realistic, it may have been a Jackie Chan flick. So if you havn't seen it and don't want the "plot" ruined, stop reading now.

This to me was about as likely a scenario as Napolean Dynamite. Did people "fall in love with Juno" because it brought out the Sunny D drinking side of all of us that are too concerned with the legitimacy of our shitty pop punk bands? Or was it the way that we secretly get a thrill when the uptight prissy yuppie is clueless underdog? Because the movie was missing some serious critical rights of passage and landmarks of a teenage pregnancy.

First off, whos family is that supportive? Honestly? Wheres the rage that they express along with the guilt and lectures? Parents tend to not be that cool, and one backhanded comment about sacrificing pet ownership due to an allergy to dog saliva by a step mother to a knocked up sixteen year old that comes and goes as she pleases is just well, not how life goes.

Junos stoic, levelheaded demeanor when dealing with the most unattractive dorkiest no personality father of the fetus: Excuse me, but didn't she describe him as her best friend, they were in a band together, she fucked him, shes carrying his baby and then they more or less ignore one another for nine months maybe with the exception of a lab? Yeah, okay.Dude was a total clueless dumbfuck who was seemingly unbothered or concerned or effected by this girl who has his child inside of her and is attending the same highschool with him,his friends, and teachers. what the fuck? And who is she- Cinderella? Me being that compassionate, mature and laid back in that predicament is about as likely as me cleaning a castle all day for three bitches, waiting on them hand and foot and whisteling tunes so sweet in the process that birds land on my shoulder. Add pregnancy hormones and the need to bond with anybody that may give a fuck about ya, and that part was so set in fairytale land, I can't even comprehend what made a writer think that was humanly possible. I am 31 years old and when I am having a bad day and am pregnant everybody around me best be having one too, or cowar like they are if they don't want to go out in the backyard and pick their own switches, pffffftlb.

Paulys mom never found out Juno was pregnant. Bulleffingshit. I would've ended up telling her. Especialy if I was sixteen, who wouldn't? Gonna stare at me like i am some white trash teenage whore-lets just see how superior she feels when she finds out that child she raised is in the same predicament.

Teenage pregnancy and depression go hand and hand. Ask anybody. Every single second isn't about self coincous wisecracking and smartass remarks. Especialy while attending the public highschool. They shone no light on the social stigma what so ever other than a few "why are they staring at me?" obligatory comments. The faculty would have pulled her aside along with her parents and heavily suggested she attend the charter school for bad girls, or adult ed. Thats what happens. Thats part of the process. Some choose to stay in public school, and ride out all all that negative attention. Most don't need the added stress.

I am glad that Juno could keep up with her classes and have her mind focused enough to do so.

she never second guessed the decision of adoption. Never wrestled with it. Never cried because she couldn't take care of her baby. Never showed any emotion at all during the pregnancy.

Even this bothered me. She didn't show, then she was huge.who has a hundred bucks at sixteen to blow on tic tacs? who can drive their folks car as if it belonged to them?

I was glad however that they made Jason Batemans character shady. I think people need to be aware that there are so many grown men that try and score with teenage girls and think that its exeptable in their sitaution. Theres definetly statory rape laws because we need them.If you don't already know this you were either sheltered or homely.Its a nasty dirty secret that I think gets way less attention than it should. I am glad that it was lightly touched apon.

Juno's parents never tried to talk her out of adoption or had second thoughts. Thats kinda odd seeing as they were ancient themselves, could that lady even birthed a baby five years before that?

Hile Hitler, by the way. I think his stint in OZ will always make me see a Nazi when I look at him. Anybody else can't imagine him being anything other than a white supremicist incarcerated douchebag? He *looks* like one. He'll always be Shillinger to me.

That ending. WTF was that? theres the climatic breakdown when this hardass teenager just needs proof that "two people can love eachother forever." where did that come from? I know I wouldn't feel so compelled to hand over a baby to that chaos. And yet somebody that needy doesn't keep the baby?

So she gets so needy and rejected and scared that she settles for her dorky ass boyfriend? Because if you havn't found your lifes mate at sixteen what does life have to offer after that? And they don't keep the baby. They may as well have gotten married, ran off into the sunset and rode horses on the beach with how cheesy that was, but they didn't keep the baby? Not that I don't believe in adoption, I think its great choice but it doesn't seem to flow with the "type" of person that ends up being so empty and needy, it seems like she would've ended up keeping it. So she needs to stay serious with somedbody at sixteen, but her babys adoptive mother can fly solo?

And they all live happily ever after.

Like I said, I liked it while I watched it. Not enough to ever watch it again, But I also loved Raising Arizona, but at least we all knew that was supposed to be exaggerated.

'For Keeps' from the 80's did a way better job with Molly Ringwald. If you were living in a cave then and didn't get out to see it or never rented it I would recommned that over Juno anyday.

I know its just supposed to be a movie, but I am super sensitive to this topic. And I found the movie in the long run undigestable and a liitle offensive and far fetched.