Jennifer's Body (2009)
Hmm, this was never going to be an easy review. Regardless of the content, many people had this pegged before they had so much as seen it.
Pretty bi-sexual (okay, we know not really, but for the sake of getting attention and appearing cool) teenage girls and demons together in one film? Sounds like Lesbian Vampire Killers all over again, huh? Whilst that 'Horne and Corden' effort was pretty much a disaster from beginning to end, so too Jennifer's Body.
For a start, most teenage girls dislike Megan Fox as much as most teenage boys are attracted to her, and for pretty much the same reason. The teenage girls probably dislike her more for the effect she has on their boyfriends, however, and hate the fact that the male of the species really couldn't care less whether the girl can act or not.
Well, we can't deny that Fox does look good, but competent in her primary purpose? That of 'Actor'? You do have to wonder if this undeniable bombshell has anything in her head at all. She picks the stangest roles for a woman with the power of all Hollywood at her fingertips. Roles that do not test her alleged abilities. If I were her, I would be doing everything in my power to give my career a sense of gravitas, a sense of accomplishment, even some credibility would do. She won't get that from making movies like this.
Unexplicably possessed by a demon, Jennifer (Fox) goes about the high school she attends, luring boys into her clutches with the promise of something more substantial than a peck on the cheek and when she has reeled them in, usually rips out their guts. Needy (Seyfried) is the long suffering, plain best friend that doesn't really understand what Jennifer is going through, but it appears she has never understood her given her reaction to Jennifer's comments, even before her odd transformation.
Appealing not only to teenage boys in the heights of a 'difficult' time in their personal physical growth, this also attempts to ensnare most kids with it's blatant attempt at being cool and socially contemporary. I think we have Diablo Cody to blame for this. Like her previous script for 'Juno', this tends to leave the movie-going adults amongst the audience a little baffled and nonplussed. Yet, we can still afford a wry chuckle at how we were also, at some stage in the past, equally susceptible to the few charms that this film has to offer.
If you take away the furore around Fox's inclusion in this film and what are you left with? A poorly acted, poorly scripted mess that doesn't really mean much of anything to anyone. The plot is there, but barely. The horror is more comic than scary and without Fox being involved, it is highly unlikely this film would ever have been made.
Watch something else, unless you're a boy aged between 13-17. If you still feel the need to watch it and you don't fit into that category, what are you thinking?
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