Seriously… I waited three years to watch this movie? Ugh.
Anita and Jennifer are best friends and have been for years. While Anita is kinda nerdy a bit shy and awkward, Jennifer is the opposite. She is beautiful, outgoing and the envy of all the other girls. Even though the two girls are wildly different, they get along great and spend massive amounts of time together in their little town. One night the girls decide to go see an up and coming band called “Low Shoulder” at their local dive bar. Mid way through the concert, the bar catches on fire and lots of people are either hurt or killed. Anita and Jennifer manage to make it out alive along with the band. Jennifer, still in shock, heads out alone with the entire band. She turns up later that night at Anita’s house, bloodied, crazed, and seemingly possessed.
In the wake of the small town fire, the school is a mess. Students and teachers are depressed classes are silent and after school activities are cancelled. Everyone is beside themselves, except that is, for Jennifer. She is up beat, happy and looks like a million bucks. As the weeks go by strange things keep occurring and Anita soon figures out that Jennifer is behind it all. Best friends to the end, until Jennifer goes after Anita’s long time boyfriend.
Let me start off by saying that I loved Juno. It was funny, acted well, and I really like the story that it told. I say this because it was written by the same woman that wrote Jennifer’s Body, Diablo Cody. Having said that, I hated the way that Jennifer’s Body was written. Her abuse of slang is impossible to get past. I looked past it in Juno because of the reasons I listed earlier, not so here. It’s like she is trying to create her own lexicon and it just doesn’t work. It all comes across as forced.
Setting aside the screenplay, I still just didn’t enjoy Jennifer’s body. I realize that the campy horror was there intentionally but since the rest of the movie takes itself so serious it seems more like poorly implemented jokes. This is supposed to be a “Dark Comedy” but I don’t think I laughed once. I actually really liked the way the movie looked. The special effects were done well, and it was pretty damn bloody.
Jennifer’s Body according to Diablo Cody, was meant to be about “female empowerment”. I guess, I can see where she was trying to inject that into the movie, but it stumbles over her crappy dialog, and falls flat on it’s face. My favorite part of this movie is that Megan Fox’s actual body is teased the ENTIRE MOVIE and is never once revealed. Not that I am hard up for naked video of her, but I actually found it funny that they never showed any part of her nude. While some people would see this as the worst part, it was about the only thing I found good here.
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