There are a number of things wrong with this film that have nothing to do with the film itself. I've published extensively about this in my personal blog, so I'll make some of the same points here.

For starts, as some people have noted, Cody isn't a screenwriter. She was a blogger who was "discovered" by Reitman (at least, that's what EW reports). She wrote her first ever screenplay for him. It is simply not possible to write an Oscar-nominated screenplay on one's own out of the gate. And coming from someone who has only ever written nonfiction? Please ninja. That just isn't going to happen, not even if a million Codys bang on a typewriter alongside the monkeys. Whatever it is that's good about Juno came from veteran Reitman working with her on it.

So, in short, it's very likely smoke and mirrors: she highly unlikely that she could have written the script everyone is saying she so "beautifully" wrote. What's far more probable is that she wrote something that was seven leagues off from god-awful -- because even with talented screenwriters, that's what happens with their first ever scripts -- that Reitman probably did a gazillion rewrites on with her and chose for whatever reason to not take writing credit for. (Given that she was writing about her vagina online, who knows what Reitman's motives really were with her in the beginning.) I'm deeply familiar with the film industry. I know how this works. I'm just flat shocked that no one is talking about this. Even Tarantino didn't write Pulp Fiction as his first script. He'd written TONS of scripts before that to be able to pen award-winning material.

Not to mention the excitement about Cody and this flick is entirely bizarre. People have written very good scripts before -- much better than this. Young people. Younger than Cody. Women, too. The shoulder riding is not warranted for what's happened. What's worse is that it's almost insulting. It's as if Hollywood is saying, "Look! Look at our new talking dog! It's a girl who used to be a stripper!" What is that about? When I'm not gobsmacked by the weirdness of it all, I'm totally offended by the sexism of it.

And to that point, people have made comments about Cody's background. All I can say is, in her memoir Candy Girl, she says, "I guess I was never molested as a child because I wasn't pretty enough."

This doesn't sound like a person who can write something halfway as thoughtful as the film Juno. This is a person who is ignorant and shallow. If this quote doesn't clear up the question as to who really wrote the Juno we saw -- Reitman who wrote the brilliant Thank You For Smoking or Cody -- then I don't know what does.