Ah, yes, the one with all the media attention and buzz around it. Anyone interested in current movies knows that this film is about a teenage girl who accidentally gets pregnant and the cute, stammering boy she likes. While, yes, that is the basis of the plot, there is much more going on in this film. Maybe it’s just because I am female, but to me the story is just as much about motherhood as it is about teenage angst and emotion.

Juno gets pregnant and soon decides that adoption is the best option for her. In no time she finds an ideal couple and begins the process of adoption. The couple, played by Jennifer Garner and Jason Bateman, are young, beautiful and pretty pretentious at first. Their relationship with Juno, their complete social opposite, forces them to confront the differences between them and the problems with their picture-perfect marriage.

It’s definitely fun to watch this movie and remember being 16 and in love – and all the teenage drama and tragedy that went along with it – and Ellen Page (Juno) and Michael Cera (Paulie) look better doing it than we did. Juno is what every teenage American girl secretly wants to be – quirky, dark, unpopular, but still beautiful, and Paulie is what all those girls want in a guy – shy, emotional, and completely unaware of how cute he is. That mix gives the film a bit of an idealistic feel, but the characters are so enjoyable the audience is willing to forgive that. The script also seems a little, well, scripted at some points in the film, but again this is forgivable because the dialogue is so amusing.

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