Juno

My 19 year old daughter wanted to see it so badly and was disappointed that it was banded from our theator until it was reviewed. She finally got to see it and thought it was worth the wait and loved it. She did say the ending was terrible, but it made you stop and think.

sherrybabie, what did your daughter think was terrible about the ending? Was it that the adoptive couple divorced? I didn't like that part either, but you could tell right away that something was off with the husband, IMO... trying to be way too cool with Juno, I was just glad they never took that path... and I was sooo glad that Juno ended up going through with that adoption.

My wife and I saw this movie because it was near universally acclaimed by critics, including Roger Ebert and A.O. Scott of the NY Times, two critics we really respect, and it made a lot of year-end top 10 lists. We didn't see what the fuss was about.

We both cried at the end (yes, we're saps) and laughed a couple of times during, but this is not a 'great' movie. We're both liberals so the storyline of how a 16-year-old deals with pregnancy didn't bother us at all. I mean, we didn't think she should burn in hell or anything and the concept was plausible and not a morals movie to us. We liked how Juno's parents dealt with the situation (except when the mother berates the sonogram tech). The adoptive mother was a stereotype. The actress who played Juno was very good, but we couldn't believe a 16-year-old could be that hip and unaffected. Plus, kids do not talk that way.

My 19-year-old son and his 18-year-old girlfriend saw it. He thought it was OK. She loved it. It seemed more of a teen movie to my wife and I and not targeted for adult audiences.

If I'm reading your husband right, you should rent "Lars and the Real Girl" when it comes out on video. Now, that was a 'great' movie, the best we saw in 2007. We were talking about it for weeks. We were disappointed by "Juno." When my wife and I see movies, we alternate picks. My wife was mad that she wasted her pick on this movie.

mago, different strokes in play here, huh? :) Nah, it wasn't a great movie as in a movie that's gonna be considered a classic one day, but I thought it was very enjoyable. I cried, too, some, and I was cheering the step-mom on when she berated the sonogram tech. Geeze...

If you give it three stars, I give it two. The sonogram scene: The first couple of lines by Allison Janney were good, as in, "My five-year-old could do your job, so don't preach to me. You do your job and I'll do mine. Let's stick to what both of us know." That's fine. Then she goes on to berate the woman's culture for four or five lines. That didn't sit right with me. She is so cool with her underage stepdaughter's pregnancy, but then turns on an immigrant? I also thought the adoptive husband showed a lot of restraint. He liked Juno, but I never thought he had something else on his mind, sexually. I thought those scenes meant that he was considering his own marriage, and its lack, that he and his wife were not interested in the same things and he didn't want to be a little boy listening to mommy, rather than finding someone who shared the same interests. I didn't see it as a back-brain boinking the underage kid thought. They let you consider that last, but he didn't really do anything forward. That scene was the focal point of the movie, two people considering themselves, deciding to go in different directions. It was not about lust. And his smile when he told his wife it was over. And the framed message from Juno . . . OK, two and a half stars.