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Jennifer's Body

Cert: 15

Description: Needy Lesnicky is a geek with a loving boyfriend, Chip, plus a best friend, Jennifer Check, who just happens to be the hottest and most desirable girl at school. In a freakish series of event, Jennifer is transformed into a flesh-hungry menace to male society. As her appetite grows, the teen sinks her teeth into buff classmates. However, when she sets her hungry eyes upon Chip, Needy steps in to protect him.

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Dir: Karyn Kusama.

Cast: Johnny Simmons, Kyle Gallner, JK Simmons, Megan Fox, Amy Sedaris, Amanda Seyfried, Chris Pratt, Adam Brody

Country: US.

Year: 2009.

Duration: 102mins

High school vampire teasing in Jennifer's Body

She-demon: Megan Fox in Jennifer's Body

By Derek Malcolm
6 Nov 2009

�Hell is a teenage girl,� says Needy (Amanda Seyfried), the shy and appropriately named best friend of Jennifer (Megan Fox), a beautiful high school tease who turns into a vampiric she-demon.

The pair live in Devil�s Claw, Minnesota, where Jennifer rules the roost until she sucks up to a visiting rock group who calmly sacrifice her to the Devil.

You might judge the film�s tone by the fact that the leader of the band says, just before stabbing her: �You don�t know how hard it is for an indie band to make it.�

This is no ordinary splatter movie but one written by Diablo Cody, who penned Juno, and directed by Karyn Kusama, who made Girlfriends.

Its stylised teen dialogue and off-centre world view would have been refreshing if Cody and Kasuma had made up their minds about its purpose.

Is it about female empowerment or is it a slasher story? Probably both, but it doesn�t work as either.

This is despite a good performance from Seyfried and a good-looking one from Fox.

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I've just watched the movie, and i felt the movie sucked. BADLY.
For one thing, as far as the gore goes, it was completely unrealistic (eg. when she's tearing up a guy, blood would be squirting out in a very unnatural way). The storyline and the plot was so-so, but was executed poorly. Including the fact that "Needy" does alot of things that make me wonder what the hell she was thinking. Like driving away from her boyfriend when she started seeing zombies.
It was not at all scary, except for gross looking props and cheap horror thrills, maybe because of the fact that Megan Fox still looked pretty even covered in black stuff and blood. Also i couldn't stop laughing during Needy And Jennifer's last showdown in the bedroom (LOLOL dodgy much ?!) The only part worth watching in the movie was that lesbian seen between Seyfried and F ox.

- Lyna, Sydney, 25/11/2009 05:15
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