The movie Juno is an example of my favorite genre of movie, the quasimusical. Most actual musical with people singing and stuff, I can’t stand. But quasimusical movies like Juno have music played almost throughout the entire movie. Not only that, but it is great music that infuses the story. But if Juno only had great music, then it would not be a great movie. What sets Juno apart is an Oscar worthy performance by Ellen Page and great dialogue. Oddly, the first scene of the movie is the only part when the dialogue falters a little.  It seems they tried a little too hard to incorporate a certain number of phrases and references to the point where the dialogue did not seem natural. However, after the first scene the dialogue and tone of the movie where nearly perfect. One of the best lines is actually delivered by Michael Cera who plays Bleeker a.k.a. the father of Juno’s kid. When Juno tells him (Bleeker) that he is really cool, but what makes him really cool is that he does not try to be, Bleeker delivers the line “I try really hard” with an earnest sadness that personifies the inner life of somewhat awkward teenage boys and even men everywhere. J.K. Simmons (aka the newspaper guy in the Spiderman movies) gets a lot of good laugh lines as Juno’s dad. Jennifer Garner playing the potential adoptive mother hits all the right notes as well. As someone who sees a lot of women around babies in my line of work, her facial reactions to things like the baby kicking where right on.  But it is the Ellen Page’s title character Juno that steals the show. Her character is different but never over the top weird. In fact, she reminded me a lot of Lauren Graham’s character in Gilmore Girls which not so coincidently is also about a teenage pregnancy. In fact there are a few subtle and not so subtle nods to the Gilmore Girls in the movie. As the head line of this post states, Juno is the best movie of 2007 and I highly recommend you go see it. If you don't take my word for it, go here to read Roger Ebert's review of the movie: http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20071213/REVIEWS/712130303