Dialogue-wise, Juno is the exact same kind of movie. It's very self-aware, and very smart-assed. But that dialogue doesn't make Juno a "pretentious" film. Not in the slightest.

And yes, I know what the words pretentious and ostentatious mean.

But the dialogue for both films isn't aiming to be anything other than what it is, which is, again, self-aware and smart-assed. Now, one could argue that it's *too* aware and *too* cute for itself, but to me, that doesn't make it "pretentious."

To me, to say that something is "pretentious" or even "ostentatious" is to say or imply that it's trying to be "arty" or "high falutin'." Now I know that that kind of "film as art" talk is frowned upon by many around here, but that's how I look at it.

Nonetheless, Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang isn't aiming to do anything other than entertain. And for me, it did.
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Oh my God
She's so hot
She's so flippin' hot
She's like a curry
I wanna tell her how hot she is
But she'll think I'm being sexist
She's so hot, she's makin' me sexist
B*tch

- Bret McKenzie