the various ingredients Diablo Cody tosses into the script blender mix into a lumpy mess, rather than the smooth concoction you might expect.
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09/23/09
Jennifer's Body (2009)
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Reviews Counted:148
Fresh:66
Rotten:82
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.
Rated: R
Genre: Horror/Suspense
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
Vanessa Hudgens and Alyson Michalka played more complex and affecting versions of these roles in Bandslam -- and neither was embarrassed with the name Needy.
09/23/09
Never as frightening as it should be, and it's certainly never as hip and funny as it would like to be, but neither is it a disaster.
09/22/09
Megan Fox's body is just fine; it is the Diablo Cody script that is the villain.
09/21/09
The flashes of competence just emphasize the extent to which the film has no idea what it's doing.
09/21/09
The integral problem with Jennifer's Body is that of tone. Or lack thereof.
09/21/09
Though it clearly admires %u2013 even borrows from %u2013 such solid girl-power smackdowns as Ginger Snaps and Heathers, Body fails to capture much of their bite.
09/21/09
" ... a brisk, bloody mix of gory horror and high school comedy, Mean Girls of Darkness or Army of Heathers, to put it in pitch-speak."
09/21/09
The picture has a tone - smart and slashingly sarcastic - that's all its own. It's actually kind of brilliant.
09/21/09
Stays on the level of a smarter-than-average Saturday-night demon-fest. It's still better than most of what we horror fans are served, haters be damned.
09/20/09
Punctuated by gory episodes, but lacking in suspense and surprise, "Jennifer's Body" works more as a teen sex endorsement ad for hormone-raging audiences to copy their on-screen peers.
09/20/09
Forget Jennifer's body. This is all about Megan's body.
09/20/09
Megan Fox needs to set her sights a little higher now that she has some clout in Hollywood.
09/20/09
Enjoy some quirk with your blood splatter. While certainly not the most innovative of horror comedy flicks, Jennifer's Body still has some pizazz, thanks to Diablo Cody's pen.
09/19/09
This movie thrives on its intended level of Scream-style horror comedy, blazes through its running time and had me laughing throughout.
09/18/09
I don't think it's trying to subvert that kind of movie, which is what people seem to have been hoping for. It's trying to BE that kind of movie.
09/18/09
A good example of how someone [like writer Diablo Cody] with a fresh perspective and an original voice can make even a genre picture better.
09/18/09
The writing is amateurish, which is sad since it comes from an Oscar winner. The directing is self-defeating. And the lead actress is... well, is Megan Fox.
09/18/09
[Cody's] glib teen-hip dialogue mostly feels like self-conscious splatter over a sorely lackluster scare flick.
09/18/09
Top CriticBoth Fox and Seyfried are hobbled somewhat by the heavy-handed direction of Karyn Kusama, a gifted filmmaker who seems unwilling to surrender to the exploitive trashiness of Cody's juicily derivative script.
09/18/09
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