A year ago (I don’t know how I missed this), a few videos made their way onto YouTube of Michael Cera and Ellen Page improvising on guitar and vocals. The inspiration for this was, of course, the film Juno, in which the two end the show with a lovely rendition of “Anyone Else But You” by The Moldy Peaches. I was going to write about the decline of modern civilization as a result of Microsoft’s inevitable buyout of Yahoo!, but that can wait.

In descending order of Ellen Page cuteness (she’s tied with Erin McKean for #1 Star Crush):

“Anyone Else But You” from Juno:

Singing about director Jason Reitman:

Singing about writer Diablo Cody (“you’re so effin’ cool, wish I was like you in school, I would have won most likely to conquer the world while being the hottest girl”):

And lastly, Ellen singing about Michael, and Michael…saying a line about Ellen:

I mean, it’s really Ellen on lyrical improv while Michael chops it up on guitar. Which is fine by me.

After seeing the movie Juno last night, I am happy to report it has taken the #1 slot in Roger Ebert’s ten best films of 2007 (and other shenanigans).

Juno is, as Ebert says, an extremely wonderful, heart-warming film, and absolutely reaffirms the moviegoing experience. It manages to be consistently hilarious despite (or, I should say, in spite of) its serious topic. The half-Kimya Dawson soundtrack and almost pretentious obsession with punk and b-movie horror keeps pushing the film toward being a generic, forgotten indie flick, but the comedy, superb acting, and delicately crafted characters propel Juno far from the grasp of humdrumness.

Make it through the first ten minutes or so of forced one-liners, and you’ll be rewarded with this year’s finest film.

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