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Wednesday, January 9, 2008

Juno (Theatre) - Both

Started slow… a little too much hipster-myspace talk, all perfectly understandable, but it sounded like a marketing director for Phire-Blazin' Cheetos wrote the dialog. Then a dramatic turn, and the movie came around into a blossoming adult! The scene where Jennifer Garner touches Juno's stomach is beautiful; watch Garner's face in a pitch perfect strain of awe, respect, and longing, acting at its best. The remaining cast turned out good performances, from which Juno got its footing, and slightly stumbled as it crossed the finish line with a little too saccharin sweet ending. I must mention the soundtrack because it is blowing the iTunes sales charts up: I did not like it. The music sounded like fifteen different artists took on the sad-mellow-chick indie rock thing, and it got old.
There were a ton of people at the theatre and that made for a bad movie experience but they shut up when it got dramatic.

Overall a 7 out 10: weakness: the dialog and the sweetness.

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