So let me start off this review by stating, I’m not really a Diablo Cody fan. It would easy to pick on her with Jennifer’s Body or the United States of Tara (extremely realistic show about a woman with so so many personalities that it’s ridiculous) but really the movie that annoyed me the most was Juno. While, I would agree many of the sixteen year old Juno’s jokes and references are amusing, the fact remains that she is sixteen and sixteen year olds aren’t filled with so much wisdom, life experience and Soupy-Sales (a radio DJ and TV star who retired in 1987, which you guessed it would be 4 years before Juno would have been born) references. Anyway, this movie is very different from those but, once again, I didn’t love it.
The movie stars Charlize Theron as the thirty seven year old Mavis (yes the name is Mavis) Gary who is an accomplished ghost writer for a wildly popular and now failing young adult book series akin to the Twilight Series. The former prom queen, (stated in the film) recently has been divorced and that coupled with now failing writing career has her in a serious depression. She then receives an email that states her former High School lover has just had a baby with his new wife. So, just like most people, she decides that this is the man to pursue and travels to her home town in a (honestly sad) attempt to win his heart back.
Overall, I found this movie mildly amusing because Charlize is such a drunk mess throughout the film. However, this movie was missing a few key things. First, it is amazingly unfunny for a film classified as a comedy-drama. There was literally no moments when I laughed, mostly I just felt uncomfortable and sad for Charlize as she continues to be just a horrible person. Secondly, this movie felt incredibly predictable. Granted most films are to some degree pretty easy to guess what will happen, but I ask you this reader, what do you think happens in this film? Will Charlize end up with her high school sweetheart, who JUST had a baby? Or will she end up making a fool of herself? Well if you can’t figure this out, maybe this is the film for you, but for me, this was average at best.
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