Jennifer's Body (2009)

All Critics (172) | Top Critics (37) | Fresh (76) | Rotten (100) | DVD (16)

By tapping in to the same vein of 'hormonal horror' as the excellent 'Ginger Snaps', this offers a witty, subversive look at the darker side of teen friendship.

November 6, 2009 Full Review | Comments (2)

Nigel Floyd

Time Out

Top Critic

'Jennifer's Body': Kusama-Cody's Post-"Carrie" Horror Feminism Is Inept

October 3, 2009 Full Review

Joe Baltake

Passionate Moviegoer

Top Critic

The flashes of competence just emphasize the extent to which the film has no idea what it's doing.

September 21, 2009 Full Review | Comments (2)

Noah Berlatsky

Chicago Reader

Top Critic

[Cody's] glib teen-hip dialogue mostly feels like self-conscious splatter over a sorely lackluster scare flick.

September 18, 2009 Full Review

Robert Abele

Los Angeles Times

Top Critic

Apparently, there's nothing like lean and hungry times to awaken the undead.

September 18, 2009 Full Review

Rick Groen

Globe and Mail

Top Critic

There are probably worse ways to go out than being devoured by Fox... but the film squanders all the fun from what could have been a hilarious, gore-filled romp.

September 18, 2009 Full Review

Adam Graham

Detroit News

Top Critic

Think Mean Girls making out with Teen Wolf on the set of The Faculty. Or something.

September 29, 2012 Full Review

Ali Gray

TheShiznit.co.uk

In trying to create a modern horror take on Mean Girls (2004), in which the protagonists redefine their rivalries through physical instead of verbal viciousness, she has merely delivered an updated, dumbed-down rehash of Carrie (1976).

March 25, 2011 Full Review

Simon Foster

sbs.com.au

Much to the chagrin of the randy male teens that Jennifer's Body is meant to lure into theatres, they're offered nary a glimpse of Ms. Fox's naked glories.

July 7, 2010 Full Review

Steve Newton

Georgia Straight

With women calling the shots on this production, I'm sure we're supposed to think this is empowerment, but I'm not sure this is what feminism is really about.

July 4, 2010 Full Review

Cris Kennedy

Screenwize

Has substantial bite.

March 30, 2010 Full Review

Nick Schager

Lessons of Darkness

Kusama and Cody don't fully succeed in making Jennifer's Body as clever as intended, but...they unleash some potent ideas and subvert the genre

January 31, 2010 Full Review | Comment (1)

Mark Pfeiffer

Reel Times: Reflections on Cinema

Jennifer's Body's parts aren't working, so in its bid to become a clever cult movie, it ends up looking like it's trying too hard.

January 18, 2010 Full Review

Jeffrey Chen

Window to the Movies

Just when we think we 'get' where Cody and Kusama are taking us, they thwart expectations and cinematic standards%u2026but not always in a good way.

January 8, 2010 Full Review

Bill Gibron

PopMatters

Jennifer's Body is full of ideas, but it doesn't have much in the way of tonal control.

January 7, 2010 Full Review | Comment (1)

Bryant Frazer

Bryant Frazer's Deep Focus

Jennifer's Body is not funny, nor is it sexy (the girls keep their clothes on), nor is it scary (it's all just special effects).

January 7, 2010 Full Review

Jeffrey M. Anderson

Combustible Celluloid

Come on in, the slaughter's fine.

January 6, 2010 Full Review

Staci Layne Wilson

Fantastica Daily

Some weakly constructed things are better left asleep in their coffins.

January 3, 2010 Full Review

Jules Brenner

Cinema Signals

Like a sloppy episode of Buffy the Vampire Slayer.

January 3, 2010 Full Review | Comment (1)

Scott Nash

Three Movie Buffs

Diablo Cody and director Karyn Kusama seem less interested in cheap scares than in something more substantive: exploring the purgatorial existence of teens caught between being kids and adults.

January 2, 2010 Full Review | Comment (1)

Rossiter Drake

San Francisco Examiner

Megan Fox needs to set her sights a little higher now that she has some clout in Hollywood.

December 26, 2009 Full Review

Kam Williams

NewsBlaze

By the time we know what's wrong with Jennifer's body, we just don't care. Movie just sucks the life out of horror fans. Paul Chambers, CNN.

December 23, 2009 Full Review

Paul Chambers

CNNRadio

Glossy teen horror-comedy is full of gore and sex.

December 21, 2009 Full Review

James Rocchi

Common Sense Media

Attempting to instill wit into a witless horror flick, Diablo Cody shows that her faux-hip dialogue does not a feature make.

December 12, 2009 Full Review | Comment (1)

Wesley Lovell

Cinema Sight

• 1. Jennifer: I'm going to eat your soul and shit it out, Lesnicki.
  2. Needy: I thought you only murder boys?
  3. Jennifer: I go both ways.
  – Submitted by Jimmy G (7 months ago)
• 1. Jennifer: I am scrumptious!
  – Submitted by Rafaela C (9 months ago)
• 1. Jennifer: I need you hopeless.
  – Submitted by Rafaela C (9 months ago)
• 1. Needy: Jennifer's evil.
  2. Chip: I know.
  3. Needy: No, I mean she's actually evil, not high school evil.
  – Submitted by Jed G (11 months ago)
• 1. Jennifer: Hell is a teenage girl.
  – Submitted by Frank A (12 months ago)
• 1. Needy: I thought you only murdered boys!
  2. Jennifer: I go both ways.
  – Submitted by Jed G (12 months ago)