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Juno [2007] (REGION 1) (NTSC) | ![Juno [2007] (REGION 1) (NTSC)](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51ajBMqwq6L._SL160_.jpg)
 enlarge | Director: Jason Reitman
Actors: Ellen Page, Michael Cera, Jennifer Garner, Jason Bateman, Allison Janney
Studio: 20th Century Fox
Category: DVD
Buy Used: £8.33
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Rating:  8 reviews
Sales Rank: 27238
Format: Ac-3, Colour, Dolby, Dubbed, Dvd-video, Subtitled, Widescreen, Ntsc
Languages: English (Original Language), French (Original Language), Spanish (Original Language), English (Subtitled), Spanish (Subtitled), French (Dubbed), Spanish (Dubbed)
Region: 1
Aspect Ratio: 1.77:1
Number Of Discs: 1
Running Time: 96 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1
Dimensions (in): 7.5 x 5.3 x 0.6
MPN: FOXD2250687D
UPC: 024543506874
EAN: 0024543506874
ASIN: B000YABYLA
Theatrical Release Date: December 14, 2207 (In 1 Day)
Release Date: April 15, 2008
Availability: Usually dispatched within 1-2 business days
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 Entertaining, moving and funny March 3, 2008
L. Atkinson (London, England)
1 out of 4 found this review helpful
There are many great things about this film. It has been spoiled somewhat by all the hype as it has caused people to have stratospheric expectations. It is basically a little indie film, but of its kind it is of the highest quality.
It stars Ellen Page (who was nominated for a best actress Oscar) as Juno McGuff. A young girl who gets pregnant the one and only time she has sex. She decides to give the baby away to a couple she finds in the newspaper and the plot basically follows the course of her pregnancy.
The cast is great and while the dialogue has come in for some criticism I think most of it works really well. Some people have said the character of Juno is too cool and is not realistic; but come on, the film is not a documentary and the actress, writer and director have worked together to create a really charming character which lifts this film above the average. Much of the dialogue is quotable and laugh out loud funny and as its not disingenuous with the character that's been created I don't see a problem with it.
The characters are different from the usual ones who appear in American teen based movies and the characters and plot constantly surprise you. For example the way Juno's Dad and Step-Mum react to her pregnancy is both refreshing and realistic.
The soundtrack is great too and fits perfectly with the film. It will either remind you of songs you had forgotten or introduce you to knew artists - depending on your age!
I believe this film will appeal to a wide range of people as there are many different points of view to identify with. Both my Mum and I loved it and I think everyone should give it a chance. If you do enjoy it you will definitely want to see it more than once, so in short - you should buy the DVD!!!
Clever, sweet and cool. May 25, 2008
T. Jones (Hereford, United Kingdom)
I loved this film. The script is simply amazing, with endless amounts of wit and intelligence. The indy style of the film may annoy some but I think that indy is the next (or current) big thing. No one wants tongue-in-cheeck macho action films nowadays. The subtle (not completely) and gentle way in which young love is portrayed in this film is great.
Great soundtrack, all parts well played and above it all a brilliant script.
A great movie March 5, 2008
Antonio Moncayo (Zaragoza)
6 out of 7 found this review helpful
This is another "sideways " " little miss sunshine " type of movie with the real star being an unborn child. The story is very engaging and the movie goes very quickly and is worth a second viewing
A lot has been written about what Diablo Cody meant with her pro-life stance and I think it is open to the viewer's interpretation.
There are certain moments of utter brilliance in the film , the Oriental girl aoutside the abortion clinic and the calm and collected reaction of Juno's parents are among them.
The acting is excellent across the board but Cela is the best delivering his best performance yet.
Why not 5 stars ?
Ellen Page overacts a bit and Micheal Cera plays a perfect teenager aloof and insecure ( perhaps if her performance had matched his it would have been very different ).American teenage slang can be difficult to follow at times.
The nice house scenes can be creepy and made me cringe as I watched them.
A breath of fresh air and perhaps and one the best American movies this year.
It started with a chair February 22, 2008
E. A Solinas (MD USA)
4 out of 5 found this review helpful
Let's face it -- teen pregnancy is an ongoing problem, and is not something admirable or funny. But I have to admit, the way you handle it can be.
That seems to be the goal of "Juno," a relentlessly quirky, cracking-wise little comedy about a girl who makes a dumb mistake, and the smart decisions she has to make after that. While it initially seems rather precious, the Wes Andersonesque scriptings hide a bittersweet, warm little story about responsibility and love.
After a lot of Sunny D and three pregnancy tests, Juno MacGuff (Ellen Page) comes to the inevitable conclusion: she's pregnant by her friend Paulie Bleeker (Michael Cera).
Because she "heard in health class that pregnancy often results in an infant," Juno initially goes in for an abortion, but ends up running out of the clinic. Instead, she's going to have the baby and give it to someone who wants one, but can't have it. So she reluctantly fesses up to her parents, and starts scouting ads for suitably (if unedgy) parents for her baby -- the wealthy Mark (Jason Bateman) and Vanessa (Jennifer Garner).
Mark and Juno form a bond over their shared tastes, but she starts to suspect that not all is well in Yuppieland -- especially when Mark decides to break up with Vanessa, because fatherhood would force him to be a grown-up, not a rock god. As her due date approaches, Juno must decide what is best for herself, Vanessa, the baby... and just maybe, the adoring Paulie.
Recliners on the lawn, cactus-grams, guitars with names and "The Wizard of Gore" -- it's pretty obvious that "Juno" will win prizes for kooky quirk, if nothing else. It certainly has that in spades, and while it has some awkwardly scripted moments, the colourful and acerbic portrait of a teenage girl having to make some heavy adult decisions is definitely a winning one.
Admittedly, "Juno" is a bit too precious in the first few scenes, when we have a weird store clerk saying things like "Your eggo is preggo" and getting replies like "Silencio!" Come on, loosen up and stop trying to be cooler-than-thou.
But as the pregnancy storyline really kicks in, "Juno" settles into a storyline that is equal parts quirky-funny and touching. Jason Reitman flavours the whole plot with his snappy, clever direction with plenty of acid-laced voiceovers from Juno, on the world around her. And Diablo Cody's dialogue ranges from deliciously sharp ("I'm not crying, I'm just allergic to fine home furnishing") to entertainingly over-the-top ("Phuket, Thailand!").
But as witty and quirky as the plot is, it wouldn't be much if it didn't also have a heart. As the movie winds on, we get to see Juno maturing -- learning to weigh coolness vs. maturity, appreciate her family, and what is right for her baby and the Lorings -- the scene where Juno helps an upset Vanessa talk to her baby is adorable. Not to mention that our pregnant heroine has to figure out whether true love is staring her in the face.
Ellen Page gives a note-perfect performance -- her Juno is funny, sassy, wise beyond her years, and profoundly unconventional ("Thundercats are go!"). Cera is equally good in a more subdued, lovably dorky role; it's pretty hard not to love Paulie just for being himself. And Garner and Bateman are wonderful too, as an uptight, lonely woman who desperately wants a baby, and a Peter Pan type who doesn't want to act like a grown-up. Bleah, who needs him?
"Juno" has its flaws -- moments of excessive preciousness -- but it has plenty of heart, wicked dialogue, and excellent acting. Call it a Cautionary Whale.
good fun, off-beat, fresh, very well cast March 2, 2008
Mr. Ian A. Macfarlane (Fife, Scotland)
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
I enjoyed this rather off-beat, feel-good Canadian comedy. Juno, aged 16, gets pregnant and then has to decide what to do next. Adoption is formally and legally arranged with a yuppie couple, both of them, it appears, nice folk ; but all is not quite what it seems there and things eventually become complicated, or more complicated than they were before. It pans out, and this is a film which ends happily, but it might not have done. The cast is uniformly strong, and is headed by a magnetic performance by Ellen Page as Juno, totally charming and unexpectedly touching in her screwball persona. It's good that her parents, Dad and Step-Mom (Alison Janney, always good value for money) love her and are level-headed about what has happened. It's good, too, that she comes to love her not-really boyfriend, the father of her child and that things work out, sort of, for the yuppie couple. The script corruscates, and I've seen it written that some of the things Juno says are just not credible from a 16-year-old like her, which is probably true, but I enjoyed them nonetheless. It's also been said that the film is anti-abortion, and indeed Juno has an off-putting experience at the agency she goes to with that in mind, but her reaction is understandable and it's just one piece of gauche human response - it doesn't seem to me to be doctrinaire at all. This is a film for fun, fresh and original, with a charming side but little sentimentality (except perhaps for the rather awful song Juno and her boyfriend sing at the end, she rather well, he rather badly). As such, it offers a lot to be enjoyed.
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