I only had to hear one thing to make Juno a SEE IT for me: that it re-teams Arrested Development alums Jason Bateman and Michael Cera. Granted, going by the trailer it looks like their characters don’t really have any interactions, but who cares?
Ellen Page (who in Hard Candy managed to scare men everywhere in ways a bunny boiling Glenn Close only wishes she could) is Juno, a teenage girl who finds herself pregnant after a misguided attempt at first-time sex with her awkward male friend (Cera). Rather than terminate the pregnancy, she decides to have the baby and then give it to a couple unable to have children. And what better place to find such a couple than in the local Penny Saver?! It’s there that she finds her ideal couple, played by Bateman and Jennifer Garner, who she attempts to build a friendship with before giving birth to her/their child.
The trailer for Juno gives off a very Little Miss Sunshine vibe in that it looks to be a mixture of quirkiness, bizarre charm, and a little bit of melancholy. The combination definitely worked for Sunshine, and with a cast like this being directed by the Thank You For Smoking director, Jason Reitman, I definitely think that Juno has more than a good chance of making the formula work for itself.
Juno is rated PG-13 and opens in limited release December 14. (Official site)

