Juno

Finally got a chance to catch up on some movie viewing. One of the flicks everyone kept telling me I had to see was "Juno." Well, I saw it and it was OK but it wasn't as great as people were making it out to be. I found it kind of over-the-top, to be honest. In what universe would health professionals, be they pharmacy clerks or ultrasound technicians, be so rude and insulting to a client, especially a teenager dealing with a pregnancy. Those scenes just seemed to be thrown in there to showcase a couple of character actors. But I guess we're expected to suspend our disbelief. After all, the main character is a barely pubescent teen who talks like a 50-year-old university professor. Brainy brainy brainy girl, but not smart enough to use protection when she manipulates her boyfriend into having sex. The audience is supposed to sympathize with Juno but I didn't really like her much. She was rude and ungrateful to her parents (who were remarkably supportive about the whole situation) and downright cruel to her boyfriend. The only people I did like in the movie were her stepmother and the adoptive mum-to-be, although the film took a mocking tone towards the two of them. They were (gasp!) old and unhip, and actually cared about other people's babies. How pathetic! So much better to be emotionally detached and to dump on everyone who loves you.