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Juno (Blu-ray)
Year: 2007
Rating: M
Cast: Jason Bateman, Michael Cera, Jennifer Garner, Alison Janney, Ellen Page
Distributor: Fox
The Disc: 4.0
FILMINK rates DVDs and Blu-rays out of 5Every now and then a quiet, unassuming film comes along that seems to resonate with lots of people from different walks of life. Juno is such a film. Diablo Cody's script is well written and very sharp, and director Jason Reitman (Thank You For Smoking) tells the story in a relaxed, occasionally subdued fashion. The performances are uniformly good: Ellen Page shines as the titular teen pregnancy case; Michael Cera plays her "baby daddy" with his trademark awkward charisma; and Jason Bateman and Jennifer Garner are wonderful as the adoptive parents-to-be. It's really the sum of all the elements that makes Juno so good. It's sweet without being twee, clever without being contrived and, well... it's actually rather heart warming. In short, it's the kind of film that your grandmother or angry Goth cousin could like in equal measure. The Blu-ray has a beautifully crisp print of the film, and a bunch of interesting extras including commentaries, a doco on writer Diablo Cody, a mildly amusing gag reel, and some deleted scenes that should have actually stayed in the film.
