Christina Reviews *Juno*

      **** 

         When the movie opens, 16 year old Juno is going into a store to take a pregnancy test.  She only had sex once, and it was with her best friend, and as it turned out, that was all it took.  In the words of the store clerk, her “eggo is preggo.”

         At first Juno wants to get an abortion.  She thinks that she might go to Women Now “because they help women now.”  But when she gets there she is ambushed by a lone abortion protestor who speaks broken English and tells her that fetuses have fingernails.  If that isn’t bad enough, the monotone receptionist is just plain weird and rambles about sweet-smelling condoms.  Juno begins to think that maybe abortion isn’t the right choice for her.

         So she decides to give the baby up for adoption.  She has a couple all lined up.

         The rest of the movie is about Juno saying funny things and the expectant adoptive mother practically busting her top as she waits for the baby to be born. 

         Things don’t work out exactly as planned in the end, but then again, if there’s anything Juno knows all about it’s things not going as planned, so it’s cool.

        This is a great movie about teen pregnancy where everything works out in the end!  Ellen Page is hilarious.