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Do you know about JUNO?

Posted by Scrapsies |

...and no this isn't Juno, it's a monkey with glasses to represent my nerdiness


Sorry guys, being in Aus means I'm fat and lazy. I mean WE DID beat the USA in the obesity field! WOOP WOOP! - wait that's not something to be proud of ...
School started and so I've been studying like a man with a loose cannon.
Anyways, I did a very 'teen' thing, I watched...

JUNO
IT was fairly entertaining for someone small minded like me.

Basically the plot blurts out something like this:
~ 16 year old guitar strumming girl is impregnated by her nerdy-ish boyfriend, Bleeker.
~ Bleeker and her don't really talk that much anymore
~ she pokes her head around the classifieds section to find fun-loving, nurturing parents to adopt the baby (the mother is played by the alias chick - jennifer garner).

SPoiler warning beyond this point


~ the to-be foster parents break-up ( Man unready to become a father)
~ Juno gets sad and ends up giving her child to Garner.
*drumroll* and Juno and Bleeker get back together singing a lovey dovey song together in the end.


Oh what a joyous movie... but what do you expect, they all turn out to be.

The Verdict
This Kooky music and high school setting reminds me of Napoleon Dynamite (and we all know that's the coolest teen movie ever hands down.) but it had less awkward moments. Juno Macguff (Ellen Page) is witty, has heaps of character, sounds fairly smart and a quick response time. She's comparable to House But her jokes are more teen-styled and she DOES have emotions. *shock horror*
Because of this wit - this movie falls under the COMEDY category.
The jokes are quite awesome too - juno fills bleeker's mail box with orange tic tacks - it was his fave - so when he opens it, he's flooded with them.
Yes - it's the dialogue and pranks that makes it an excellent time-waster. Why time-waster you may so cleverly ask. It's one of the movies where you walk out the same as you entered. Sure, it's a story of growing up but we've all been educated about.
It's a happy movie with happy music thus I will give it a happy rating :P


It has a laugh rating of: giggling - snort laughing...and yes you will look like the cat when you're watching the movie.


OVerall Rating: 4/5 humble potatoes

the trailer



Other recommendations: Garden State

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