I saw the movie Juno over the holidays. It's a film about a sixteen year old girl, Juno McGuff, who unexpectedly finds herself pregnant after engaging in sex with her friend Paulie Bleeker to stave off boredom. She goes through with the pregnancy, and chooses a yuppie couple as its adoptive parents. Complications ensue. The reviews from the major sources-- NYT -- have been pretty good.I know I OUGHT to have liked the movie. Russ Douthat from the Atlantic Monthly argues it approaches the issue with a shades-of-gray, complicated sensibility. I read somewhere else that it transcends the sensibilities of the Baby Boomers, moving toward a distinctive, more nuanced GEN X sensibility.But the thing is, I didn't like the movie. Unlike Knocked Up, it wasn't gross or crude. I thought it was funny while I was watching it. But thinking about it later, I couldn't get past the dialog, which was too witty, sharp, and mannered, for any real-live sixteen-year-olds to pull off.To put it in a nutshell, it is as if the movie has a missing first scene:God (played by Morgan Freeman) says to Truman Capote (played by Philip Seymour Hoffman) "Well, Truman, I want to let you into heaven, but you have a few things to do first. You were kind of mean to people from the Midwest in getting your material for In Cold Blood . So, in order to make up for that, I want you to possess the mind of a sixteen-year-old Minnesota girl about to face an unexpected pregnancy, and fill her mouth with jaded witticisms that all--but-hide her underlying vulnerability. Make her verbally fabulous." And Truman Capote agrees.So. . . it's interesting. . . it's fun while it's going on. . . but it's too clever by half to have any real purchase on the underlying ethical issues.Did anyone else see it?