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From: Uno Category: Films Date: 06 August 2008 Time: 10:23 AM Review: In spite of cute character of this film it is really quite watch able. The girl ends up like God, the life giver, choosing who is good and who deserves life (her baby). It is a relief to watch a film where the characters aren't predictable. I feared mal treatment of the older childless woman, neurotic, controlling, un fun and un cool. We watch her obsessive planning for the babies arrival, we see her all too healthy habits, we blame her for the sickly portraits of the couple that Juno notices on the way to the bath room as if to tempt us to believe her to be the barren woman. Her husband is cool, the chilled out the wanna be rock star, complete with comic book collection and we can't help but like him. I sat wanting Juno and him to fall in love, and bit by bit it happens but the development of the characters is subtle and delicate. Slowly we see that the woman really is human and does love, and unlike her husband is an adult, while we become disillusioned by him as does Juno. I envy Juno's relationship with her father who is loving and easy going right though, and perhaps a person like that does exist somewhere. Though this film may be like an extended version of a quirky Nokia/T Mobile(?) adverts, the fine handling of the characters carry us though those nauseous moments.