Jennifer's Body

Director: Karyn Kusama
Writer: Diablo Cody
Starring: Megan Fox, Amanda Seyfried
Release Date: September 18, 2009
Length: 1 hour 42 minutes     

Take a young, gorgeous, Hollywood starlet, an academy award winning anticipated screenwriter, a musical actress, and a relatively unknown director, and you are left with indefinable crap. When you see the trailer for this movie, you probably say this looks like a humorous horror movie (and if you’re a guy, you can include the part that Megan Fox is in it), then you see the movie and you are only left with the words…What. The. Hell.  Megan Fox is a cheerleading, possessed cannibal, Jennifer, and Amanda Seyfried is her dorky best friend Needy trying to stop her from eating boys. Now let’ get things straight. This isn’t – thank the heavens – a vampire movie. If it was, I think I would have reached my limit. Jennifer is a demon who had a brutal “ritual” performed on her by creepy indie band, Left Shoulder, including the funny lead singer played by Adam Brody. So Jennifer was once normal, but now unfortunately needs to feed off human flesh – preferably boys - in order to survive. A lot of scenes and plot changes in this movie would be completely – for lack of a better word – random. I think I repeated to my friend about a dozen times “What The Hell?” because I sat there stumped of how the scenes were written. This film does star the gorgeous Megan Fox, so obviously the teenage boys will be racing to the theatres but sometimes I felt there was too much put into the movie for that specific audience. For example, there was a scene where Ms. Fox was in the nude, by herself, wet, coming out of the water in slow motion. Yeah, it was that obvious. We get it. She’s sexy. Although my jealousy pissed me off, the largest pet peeve I developed with watching Jennifer’s Body was that there would be crazy scenes where Needy (Jennifer’s best friend) would witness Jennifer do something that’s probably one should call the police or ambulance for. But Needy would just think it’s weird. And as soon as she received a stupid explanation or excuse from Jennifer, the excessive cannibal activity would be forgotten by the next scene. I found Jennifer’s Body extremely hard to take seriously at first, but then I realized I don’t think I was ever supposed to take it seriously. Eventually I came to the conclusion about halfway into the movie that this whole thing was a joke. To me it didn’t seem like one because I felt I was cringing more often than laughing. It was funny in parts, and there were many humorous one-liners from Megan Fox herself, but I didn’t find it to be a comedy. But again, I also couldn’t take it seriously, so it wasn’t a real thriller or horror film. It is hard to express how I actually came to liking this film, but I can tell you with this movie as my one exception, my enjoyment of the film didn’t matter because I don’t think anybody is going to like it except for 14-year-old boys. Be prepared for no laughs and no screams. This comedic horror flick is truly not what it’s made out to be.