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
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01/31/10
Jennifer's Body (2009)
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Reviews Counted:159
Fresh:67
Rotten:92
Average Rating:5.1/10
Consensus: Jennifer's Body features occasionally clever dialogue but the horror/comic premise fails to be either funny or scary enough to satisfy.
Theatrical Release:Sep 18, 2009 Wide
Box Office: $16,031,583
Synopsis: A sexy horror film with a wicked sense of humor, JENNIFER'S BODY is about small town high school student Jennifer (Megan Fox), who is possessed by a hungry demon. She transitions from being "high... [More]
Starring: Megan Fox, Amanda Seyfried, Johnny Simmons, J.K. Simmons
Director: Karyn Kusama
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Reviews for Jennifer's Body
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.
01/18/10
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.
01/08/10
Jennifer's Body is full of ideas, but it doesn't have much in the way of tonal control.
01/07/10
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).
01/07/10
Some weakly constructed things are better left asleep in their coffins.
01/03/10
Like a sloppy episode of Buffy the Vampire Slayer.
01/03/10
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.
01/02/10
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.
12/23/09
Attempting to instill wit into a witless horror flick, Diablo Cody shows that her faux-hip dialogue does not a feature make.
12/12/09
Devil's Kettle might as well have been called Crock Pot.
12/06/09
Jennifer is dead-eyed and impassive, but a good actress might yet have played her in a lively, knowing way. Fox’s dead-eyed impassiveness seems all too much her own.
11/13/09
The film is not without merit and has more corpses and red corpuscles than the anaemic Twilight series of vampire flicks.
11/13/09
There's not a moment in Jennifer's Body that's intentionally scary, and the characters never reach beyond the level of stereotype.
11/09/09
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.
11/06/09
Jennifer's Body has more to say about the dynamics of teenaged female friendship, sexual power games and the trials of adolescence than many a more self-consciously worthy film.
11/06/09
The premise — Mean Girls with demonic possession and a feminist subtext — is promising. But the film fails to deliver either laughs or scares in sufficient numbers.
11/06/09
A genre high-school horror flick with a satirical edge.
11/06/09
Although Jennifer’s Body offers up both comedy and horror, each is doled out in only the meanest of amounts, with the film just scraping through to a lacklustre and unsatisfying finale.
11/06/09
Writer Diablo Cody's willingness to resort to flogging the movie off the back of Fox's cleavage and highly-sexual public profile spoils what could have been an interesting and original addition to the slasher horror genre.
11/06/09
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