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.
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11/13/09
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: 15
Genre: Horror/Suspense
Theatrical Release:04-11-2009
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
Reviews for Jennifer's Body
The film is not without merit and has more corpses and red corpuscles than the anaemic Twilight series of vampire flicks.
11/13/09
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
Top CriticJennifer'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
Top CriticThe 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
Top CriticA genre high-school horror flick with a satirical edge.
11/06/09
Top CriticAlthough 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
Funny, sexy, cool and destined to become a cult classic.
11/06/09
Likely to strike a chord with the turbulent teens Cody captures so well, this vividly lurid tale has cult movie written all over it and may well enjoy a healthy afterlife if it stiffs at the cinema.
11/06/09
Is it about female empowerment or is it a slasher story? Probably both, but it doesn’t work as either.
11/06/09
Not likely to wow die-hard gore fans or anyone looking for the originality and wit of Juno, but it won’t break your heart like, well, Jar Jar Binks. It’s just hot, bloody, dirty, disposable fun for a Saturday night.
11/06/09
It isn't thrilling. Fox can't act. The backchat is more filthy than funny.
11/06/09
While George A Romero certainly won't be losing any sleep, failsafe ingredients - gore, guts and hotties making out with each other - make this a movie bound to appeal to teenagers everywhere.
11/06/09
[Diablo Cody's] salty dialogue is the saving grace of Jennifer’s Body, a gleeful, old-fashioned mix of gore and giggles that feels awfully pleased with itself.
11/06/09
Occasionally aimless direction is saved by a witty script from Diablo Cody.
11/06/09
After the quick-fire wit of Juno, this is disappointing.
11/06/09
Fox is fun as a demonic harpy, but sadly the meeting of Hollywood’s two rock’n’roll queens is closer to safe studio product than slash-and-burn envelope-pusher.
11/06/09
Top CriticAn enjoyable teen horror with terrific performances and a nice line in jet-black humour thanks to Diablo Cody's excellent script.
11/06/09
Despite a few good ideas and flashes of genius in the script, the whole film is a total bore.
11/06/09
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