Jennifer’s Body
Jennifer’s Body is a strange horror movie, you could say that it’s not even a horror movie at all just a teen comedy with the added teenager deaths to add the drama to it. I know people would think from that I’m describing it like Heathers, but this is not Heathers because Heathers was a lot more intelligent than this with a far superior script.
Jennifer’s Body is of course the story of Jennifer. She’s just a bitch, simple as that. Stuck up her own ass is how I’d describe her quite honestly. She has a friend Needy, who is ironically quite need and for some reason takes all the abuse from Jennifer. Jennifer decides they must go see the latest emo band at a bar outside of town, it’s quite a shame really that this band ends up sacrificing Jennifer so that they can get some success (even if they do still suck after they make the sacrifice). Once she is sacrificed Jennifer returns but can only stay living and look pretty as long as she eats boys. So using her feminine charms she seduces several of her school friends and eats them. Needy noticing this obvious change in her friend finds she is the only one to stop her.
I’ve heard many things said about Jennifer’s Body and quite honestly a lot of it I don’t agree with.  One example is that the movie is a feminist movie because of the way Jennifer dominates the men and eats them; I beg to differ on that point. Is it a feminist belief that a woman must use her body to control men to get what she wants? That she must become a tool of their lust so she must survive? That she can only survive because of men? No, that’s not feminism at all. If anything Needy is the “feminist icon” of this movie, she is the girl who must take on the beat (Jennifer) and save the day. She shows the real strength in the movie and she is in fact the star, even if Jennifer should be (I mean come on Megan Fox is the big name of the movie right?).
So, why don’t I think Megan Fox is the big star of the movie? Well other than the fact her acting sucks in this she has one of the worst scripts to work with ever. Everything that comes out of her mouth is a metaphorical mess of over complicated vocabulary that could have easily been said in far fewer words and a lot more intelligence. The blame for that of course is in Diablo Cody’s style of writing. I’m not going to hate on the woman because I think she’s quite good. I loved Juno and it’s “hip” vocabulary was not an issue at all, and in this movie Needy also uses this style but to less of a degree which I find to be way more tolerable. Yes, it’s ok for the script to be all “hip” and “cool” but don’t overdo it. Jennifer’s style of talking in this movie comes across as highly annoying and in a way it could have damaged Fox’s ability to make the character convincing. You could also take the view that maybe it’s just Fox that can’t handle such a script and could not deliver the lines in a believable enough manner; it’s just a matter of opinion really.
So, would I recommend this movie? I say wait till it comes out on DVD and rent it. It’s an ok straight to DVD style movie that only got in the cinemas because of Megan Fox’s name and Diablo Cody’s Oscar for Juno, and if this movie had half the style that Juno had I’d highly recommend it. I did enjoy this movie but only when Megan Fox kept her mouth shut, then the story could progress without the garbled mess of a script.
Rating 6/10