And Lisa Schwarzbaum of Entertainment Weekly gave the film an 'A-' describing it as, "a blithe charmer balanced somewhere between a life-should-be-so-neat fairy tale and a life's-a-real-bitch tragicomedy." She thought it, "begins at such a pitch of hyperverbal smart-mouthing, not only by the title character but also by everyone around her, that it takes about a half hour for the movie's long-term plans to make tolerable sense and for the laugh-baiting banter to calm down. Some of this is Reitman's doing, beginning with the bright, sunshiny (and Little Miss Sunshine-y) colors and tempo of his antiheroine's Sunny D-swigging march to a drugstore to purchase yet another pregnancy test. But more of the responsibility belongs to young Ms. Cody, clearly a writer of unique sass herself, who proudly proffers her stint as a Minneapolis phone-sex operator/insurance adjuster as a PR hook. Sometimes she just can't help adding an extra serving of cute." For her, "the movie's biggest surprise, and reward, turns out to be the maturity and appreciation with which Cody and Reitman handle the grown-ups in the mix — the adults for whom Juno's choice carries as much, or even more, importance. I don't think Jennifer Garner has ever been lovelier or more affecting than in her turn as Vanessa, one-half of the childless married couple looking to adopt."

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