This week I took a step up from the comedy genre and went to semi-horror. This week I saw a very interesting movie called Jennifer’s Body. It stars Megan Fox, Amanda Seyfried, and Adam Brody. It’s about two teenage girls, one popular; the other not, who grew up together, are best friends, and go to the same high school. Jennifer Check is the popular cheerleader who is always the talk of the school and guys are always after her. Her not so popular best friend, Needy Lesnicky, dates Chip Dove and is looked down upon by everyone except her boyfriend and Jennifer.
A popular band, Low Shoulder, is playing at a nearby bar and Jennifer and Needy decide to go. The bar ends up burning down during the band’s performance due to an alcohol spill and a spark from the guitarist’s amp. Jennifer and Needy meet the band outside and the band tries to take the two girls with them. Needy knows it is a bad idea and doesn’t go. Jennifer calls her a chicken (to be language appropriate), and leaves with them in their van. Along the way she realizes they are part of an occult and believe in witchcraft and myths. The band’s lead singer, Nikolai Wolf, leads them out into the middle of the woods; Jennifer bound and tied, where they stab Jennifer in the stomach after chanting an unknown ritual to turn her into a flesh eating monster.
Jennifer goes missing for a few days, Needy beginning to wonder what happened to her, when Jennifer suddenly shows up at her house, covered in blood after killing a random person in the town. Needy helps her get cleaned up and lets her stay the night. Throughout the rest of the movie Jennifer seduces guys to meet her at a private location and kills them to keep her looking young. Needy begins hallucinating at the same time that Jennifer is feeding, because they share a bond through a golden heart , best friends, necklace, found around Jennifer’s neck. One of these hallucinations is when Needy and her boyfriend finally have sex, and she ends up leaving him high-and-dry.
Later, it’s the school dance (maybe prom?) and Jennifer finds Chip walking to the dance. She tells him lies about Needy and convinces him to go with her. They go to an abandoned building with a disgusting pool inside where Jennifer tries to eat him. Needy realizes it when she is waiting at the dance, Low Shoulder performing there. She runs off to find Jennifer biting down on his neck, blood spilling out of Chip’s neck. Needy tries to save him, but he ends up dying from the sever bite wound. Needy decides to get revenge and breaks into Jennifer’s house, and stabbing her in the heart with a large box cutter. After that, the movie shows Needy in an insane asylum, breaking out, then going after Low Shoulder and killing them all. The credits roll, with images the police took of the murder scene – what a way to end it, right? HA! I don’t think so…
Some of you may not agree to my summaries, but hey, I tell it like I see it. Once again, I have to suggest IDMB for summaries, since they are the number one review site. Here is the link to Jennifer’s Body review specifically, if you want their take on the movie, along with other random pictures I didn’t feel necessary to include in this blog. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1131734/
Right after this movie, I became curious to see what other people had to say about it. So I started looking up and reading some interesting reviews about it when I came across one that compared the movie to Juno, a popular movie also directed by Diablo Cody, and Transformers, where actress Megan Fox also starred. The next few paragraphs I will just be quoting some of Jim Vejvoda’s blog on IGN, but to read it fully yourself, here is the link: http://movies.ign.com/articles/101/1019379p1.html
Now then, Jim states in his blog that, “There's nothing remotely scary, original or even interesting about Jennifer's Body as a horror movie; there are no inventive kills, no building of tension, all the scenarios play out with dulling predictability, and the special effects are cheesy, TV-level quality.” I HIGHLY disagree. There are some parts in the movie that made me jump, but others made me laugh, hence why it is called a HORROR-COMEDY. I will admit that I do agree with the special effects being cheesy, though. Some you could tell that there were machines being used, like the floating at the end of the movie. You could actually see the clothing was being tugged on where the chords were holding them up – LAME.
In conclusion, I think this movie was pretty good – I wouldn’t give it five stars, but it’s kind of entertaining to watch when you are bored at home, unless you are an extreme oh-my-god-i-am-in-love-with-megan-fox fan, then you are obligated to watch it. Tune in next week for another review. Hmm…maybe I’ll change it up a bit. You’ll just have to wait and see!
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