The smaller voices worked fine with the intimacy of all the closeups. Much more like thinking aloud than declaiming.
I agree wrt to Depp, but I honestly couldn't understand what HBC was saying half the time, and I've had the entire show memorized since I was 12.
She wasn't just singing small, she was mumbling. Which meant that the few jokes Burton did leave in for her got swallowed. And there's no reason for "inside my own head mumbly breathy singing" during numbers like the Pirelli scene and "God That's Good!" when she's supposed to be talking out loud to other people.
I just saw Juno, and LOVED IT. It was funny that there was a group of Actual Teenagers in the theater with me, to hear their reactions to things, which were of course very different from mine. It made me laugh a lot, and toward the end it made me cry a lot. Through the end of the movie, into the bathroom, and even a little walking down the street. Oops.
I'm with Jessica here. Depp surprised me by being able to sing. HBC not so much. And the girl who played Joanna really surprised me, cause I think she sang the part on stage in London. Maybe she had a sore throat during filming...
to hear their reactions to things, which were of course very different from mine.
Could you give some examples, Jesse?
There was a lot of "EW!" and lack of laughing at things that cracked me up, but I can't quite remember what. Obviously the Jason Bateman and Jennifer Garner characters didn't really resonate. The talk in the bathroom was all about, "No, seriously, your uterus gets that big!" "EW!!!"
Also, I don't think they went "aw" every time Michael Cena was on-screen like I did.
I totally did the aw thing with him. Well, he's such a big doe-eyed doofusy-but-cool kid, isn't he? And the kid can act. I mean, it's almost impossible not be all, Gee whiz over him.
And yet, somehow I manage. He did not feature in the "pro" column on my list of reasons to see or avoid Superbad.
I don't think I've seen him in anything else except Arrested Development, and not much of that. I seriously said "aw!" out loud more than once.
He really nailed his character, didn't he? One moment that resonated and perhaps summed him up was when Juno says to him how
he's so cool without even working at it
and he replies that
no, actually, he's worked at it pretty hard.
I was going to quote that very thing, Jon! Aw!
