I don't see what anyone can see in anyone else...

I've seen Juno twice now at the theaters. Movies like this are always an experience. When the reaction from the audience actually increases how much you love the film.

The first time I saw Juno, it was a medium sized audience. Lots of open seats, but I wouldn't call it empty. The laughs were there, but they weren't as loud as they could be. Still, I loved the film.

The second time I saw it, the audience had much more people in it, the laughs were louder, warmer, and I am now in love with the film. There are lots of movies I love, but only some films I am in love with. Juno has been added to that list.

Seeing it a second time was likely a completely new and even better experience. I knew when the jokes were coming, so I could laugh at Ellen Page's unbelievable timing, and I could laugh at how everyone in the audience is reacting just like I knew they would. When certain things about certain people are revealed, I was swimming in the sea of everyone's shock, their pain at the revelation that these characters that they have to grown to love, are just as horribly flawed as everyone else. You could feel it in the silence, see it on their faces, that they were all taking the character turns just as hard as you took them.

Just what character turns am I talking about? I want to say so badly. They are the reason I went back to see this movie a second time. But I won't say, because you definitely need to experience them on your own.

You also need to experience Ellen Page. A few months ago, you could bask in the thought that you knew Ellen Page would be the next great actress before anyone else. But now after Juno, I think just about everyone knows that, in a few years, she will be called the greatest working actor out there. Her comedic timing could lead you to believe she is the next big thing in comedy. Her dramatic range could lead you to believe she is the next drama powerhouse. The fact that she shows both of these in one film, many times in the same scene, should lead you to know for damn certain she is the next big thing.

You've also got a bunch of other actors doing some incredible work here as well. J.K. Simmons and Allison Janney are two of the best teen movie parents you will ever see. They understand their daughter, something few teen parents are ever allowed to do, and they work for her best intention. Not just the made up, "blind parent best intention" that most teen movies have. You know the one. "I don't care how much music means to you. You are going to medical school and that's final!" When the father explains, in a very funny line, that he is upset with Paulie Bleeker for sleeping with his daughter, the mom leans over and says "You know it wasn't his idea." Thank you! Thank you for having parents that get it. Despite what the movies want you to believe, some parents, good parents, do understand. Thank you for once, letting us see a movie with those parents.

There are also some refreshingly different roles for the other three main characters: Michael Cera as Paulie Bleeker, and Jason Bateman and Jennifer Garner as the adoptive parents Mark and Vanessa. Cera, on the surface, seems to be playing the same character he did in SuperBad and Arrested Development, but he does a lot more with that character here. He's the key to some of the best dramatic scenes in the film, as is Jennifer Garner, ditching her action roles for the role of Vanessa, a neurotic, hopeful mother. She's the kind of woman who thinks she understands everything because she's read all the baby books, and Jason Bateman plays his most human character to date as Mark, the father who hasn't really grown out of his child hood dreams of being a rock star. Vanessa seems cold, Mark seems cool. They are two amazingly written characters.

Some things have been said about the "hipster" dialogue in the film. People complain that no 16 year old like Juno would know about or be able to reference all the things she does. Some outright hate it, and are convinced that it is a terrible, fake movie, and that the only people who like it are the people that are trying to be cool. Now trust me when I say this: That is the circle of life. First, it is cool to like something that not a lot of people know about. Then, after it becomes popular, it is cool to hate that something. It happened with Napoleon Dynamite, it happened with Little Miss Sunshine, it's happening with Juno.

But believe me, those people hating on the film could not have possibly seen it. I don't mean they didn't sit in a theater or on their computer and watched it. I mean they didn't see it. If they saw it, they would have seen that this movie is loved for much more than its hipster dialogue.