Rating of
2.5/4
Knocked Up - the younger version
Allison - wrote on 11/07/07
Everyone is going crazy over Diablo Cody's Juno. It is a movie that is mostly enjoyable - I didn't know how much I could get into a comedy about a pregnant teen. Ellen's performance was standout as were a number of others: Allison Janney and JK Simmons (as the step mom and dad, respectively).
The dialog was "different", but unlike "Brick" I felt it was way more comprehendable. At several moments I felt that the dialog would never be spoken by a teen, but then, that's part of the charm of it.
Jennifer Garner was better than expected, but her character was the aggravating upper middle class suburban housewife who wanted a baby so bad that it destroyed the world around her. But I tended to enjoy this role more than her shoot em up agent type of roles, because I've never liked her as a badass - and that's probably just me.
