The Popkorn Junkie

      Before I get started…. Ellen Page who plays the title character in Juno is in a much lesser known movie called “Hard Candy”. Her performance in the very freaky Hard Candy is memorable. Anyway, Juno itself.. I enjoyed most of it while I was watching, but afterwards the more I thought about it, the more I thought it was a weak film. The Juno character is a smart, wise cracking young girl who has more insults and jokes than a Tonight Show monolog. That’s good and bad.. good because it is funny, but bad because she is like that even after she learns that she is pregnant and it seems so “written”. What I mean is the character doesn’t act naturally.. she acts like nothing happened at all and that she is totally detached from the situation and is more of an observer; just like a writer might be creating a story.

      Though Juno does evolve during the film, the other characters that we introduced are, for the most part, very static and shallow. Their various actions and words are interesting, but we have no real idea where it all comes from, at least no deep idea, just superficial stereotypes. The father of Juno’s child is good example of my whole problem with the film… though he had plenty of screen time, he might as well have been sitting in the audience watching the film with us as he has almost zero impact on anything. I’m not saying he is not do a good job acting, I am just saying he wasn’t give anything useful to do in the film.

      I give the film 3 out of 4 pops. It was enjoyable, but totally unrealistic and very shallow.

-- Pappy ( 3 out of 4 pops )

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