I happened to see two "comedy horror" movies back-to-back, this one and the Rodriguez "Planet Terror" movie. This one is better in every way. Even though "Jennifer's Body" is a parody it never goes for ha-ha type of funny. It is funny in the situations and the dialog, and how the "teenagers" handle what is a pretty serious situation, someone killing and eating teenage boys.
Megan Fox is nominally the lead as Jennifer Check, but Amanda Seyfried is clearly the best actor, as Jennifer's BFF from childhood, Needy Lesnicky. They live near a natural mystery, a waterfall and whirlpool called "Devil's Kettle", and their high school is named after it. The movie actually opens with Needy in some type of incarceration, an institution of sorts, and the main story is a long flashback.
I really enjoyed the movie, written by the same lady that gave us "Juno" and directed by the same lady that gave us "Girlfight." That combination brings a sensibility and humor that male writers and directors just don't have, like Rodriguez and Tarantino. It is a much better movie than its low rating would indicate.
Also in a key role is Johnny Simmons as Needy's boyfriend, Chip Dove.
SPOILERS: Jennifer is a big fan of a rock group called "Low Shoulder", and after a concert goes off with them, telling them she was a virgin. Coincidentally the lead singer had decided he needed to make a deal with the dEVIL to achieve fame and fortune, and to do that they needed to capture and sacrifice a virgin. They got the spell off the internet! But since Jennifer wasn't really a virgin, something else happened, and not only did she come back to life, she became a monster of sorts that had to eat young men periodically to re-gain her strength and beauty. In the end Needy fights Jennifer and kills her by stabbing her through the heart, but in the process Needy was wounded. This gave her some of the powers that Jennifer had, and in the very end she escapes from incarceration, by walking through a steel link fence, and gets Jennifer's revenge by killing all the band members. She is still out there, somewhere!
Megan Fox is nominally the lead as Jennifer Check, but Amanda Seyfried is clearly the best actor, as Jennifer's BFF from childhood, Needy Lesnicky. They live near a natural mystery, a waterfall and whirlpool called "Devil's Kettle", and their high school is named after it. The movie actually opens with Needy in some type of incarceration, an institution of sorts, and the main story is a long flashback.
I really enjoyed the movie, written by the same lady that gave us "Juno" and directed by the same lady that gave us "Girlfight." That combination brings a sensibility and humor that male writers and directors just don't have, like Rodriguez and Tarantino. It is a much better movie than its low rating would indicate.
Also in a key role is Johnny Simmons as Needy's boyfriend, Chip Dove.
SPOILERS: Jennifer is a big fan of a rock group called "Low Shoulder", and after a concert goes off with them, telling them she was a virgin. Coincidentally the lead singer had decided he needed to make a deal with the dEVIL to achieve fame and fortune, and to do that they needed to capture and sacrifice a virgin. They got the spell off the internet! But since Jennifer wasn't really a virgin, something else happened, and not only did she come back to life, she became a monster of sorts that had to eat young men periodically to re-gain her strength and beauty. In the end Needy fights Jennifer and kills her by stabbing her through the heart, but in the process Needy was wounded. This gave her some of the powers that Jennifer had, and in the very end she escapes from incarceration, by walking through a steel link fence, and gets Jennifer's revenge by killing all the band members. She is still out there, somewhere!