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Michael Cera and Ellen Page deliver in Diablo Cody's superbly written, Juno! I was rolling with laughter along side male and female audience members in a packed theater over the weekend. This film is a throwback to 80's fashion and the "me" generation with present day honest in your face comments like, "sausage legs" in short shorts and ".

Juno Macguff is a teenage girl who's bored with her evening and decides to have sex with Paulie "Bleeker" one night. Two months later, she confesses to her friend Leah (Olivia Thirlby) over her hamburger phone that she's pregnant. Junebug wants her baby to live in a two parent environment so she finds the perfect couple through the penny saver. Vanessa Loring (Jennifer Garner) and Mark Loring (Jason Bateman) seem to be the picture perfect couple for Junobug's baby. As time goes by and Juno's belly expands, she finds that judging a couple by their neighborhood isn't really all it seems to be. Vanessa is revealed as the anal wife who needs everything to be just so including her husband Mark. Mark is stifled in his current surroundings and finds he has a kindred spirit in Juno. Completely, oblivious to the effect Juno has on Mark until he's ready to leave Vanessa does she confess she loves the baby's father, "Bleeker". Vanessa's need to be a mother supercedes anything including her marriage that eventually falls apart and ends in divorce. Juno learns that love isn't anywhere but in front of her with her broken family brilliantly played by Allison Janney and J.K. Simmons, along with her outsider on again off again boyfriend "Bleeker". Cera and Page are well on their way to larger than life careers along side Hollywood royalty as Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan. Kudos to director Jason Reitman for a film worth seing on a date night or with friends. Overall, This film leans more towards teens and adult audiences with it's keen direct humor and subject matter.

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