Juno Review
And now, as they say, time for something completely different.
Juno (2008) - 3/10
At it’s heart, Juno is a teen pregnancy movie without teenagers and without pregnancy. We start off with Juno, our eponymous heroine, finding that she is pregnant, in between completely obvious ad-related namedrops for “Sunny D”. She has a witty exchange with the guy at the pharmacy and then affirms her pregnancy in the toilet cubicle. At a stroke, this opening scene destroys any and all sense of reality which the Coming-of-Age genre thrives on. Teen pregnancy scares do not involve witty dialogue, they do not involve un-fazed hip teenagers; anyone who has been through a pregnancy scare will tell you it involves denial, hysterics and an early grave for every hope and dream you may have had. Read more
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