Juno is the endearing story of a 16 year old girl who gets knocked up and then decides to give away what comes out.

The first thing that struck me about this film is that the dialogue is very witty, but at the cost of believability in places. It's kind of like a childish Kevin Smith style, but the trouble is that the language doesn't sound appropriate for the age of the characters a lot of the time.

The Juno character in particular I wasn't too keen on. Not only did her language and interests seem really inappropriate for a 16 year old girl, but I found her really quite annoying. She's so obnoxious. I appreciate that they wanted her to be this kooky, alternative character, but it felt like a middle-aged man forced inside the body of a teenage girl. And that's against the law for a reason.

Having said that, I think Ellen Page was very good in the film, as were the rest of the cast. Michael Cera played his usual role of awkward teen, but it worked pretty well and his character Bleaker was more believable than Juno in my eyes. The relationship between the two, which you would think would be a prominent part of the film considering it's about pregnancy, takes a back seat for most of it, until it finally rears it's acne-ridden head at the end to wrap things up with a nice happy bow.

There is a lot of music in this film. Like 60% of it must be set to this light-hearted, whimsical, innocent, lo-fi acoustic soundtrack, and that's because those elements (except lo-fi) need to be reinforced constantly throughout the film so that it doesn't get bogged down with the pregnant teenager in the room. It would be near impossible for this film to be as fun as it wants to be if it attempted to tackle the issue of teen pregnancy, so it does everything it can to avoid doing so, and this is evident not only in the constant audible reinforcement, but through Juno's and her parents', and indeed most characters' seeming indifference to her pregnancy. This for me is where the film's biggest flaw is. The film makers seem to think that it would have been impossible to be funny and edgy at the same time, and that is damn wrong. Maybe it's just a British thing, but the best comedy comes from the most controversial of places in my eyes. Comedy doesn't have to be light-hearted to be funny, but even putting the need for funny aside for a second, I think they missed an opportunity to take a stab at the issue here.

The film is very funny and enjoyable to watch, but it felt empty to me by completely ignoring the issue that it's essentially based on. It's like if they did a film about a murderer who had to be stopped because he was ruining peoples' carpets with the blood.