Jennifer's Body (the movie)

The vampire trend is very obvious...
In movies, books, and even events there seems to be a prominent trend towards vampires. But, it's odd in the way they have changed the best, in most cases. In our society dark creatures with evil twisted faces dripping with blood seem to lack mass appeal. Now, to satisfy our generation, they have to be more like us. But... more like better versions... To sell a vampiric piece you have to have a beautiful teenager twisted in worlds of sex and love. Jennifer's Body is another example of this. In fact, it takes it to an extreme in many ways.

Now, i saw this script before it came out. After reading it, I saw it differently. Seeming to function more as a comedy. But, I was shocked to come in and see this as a serious film. You can tell the director Karyn Kusama wanted this to be a horror film used to genuinely scare the audience. But personally, taking it seriously is more than a little bit difficult.

This film is centered around a girl named Needy (Amanda Seyfried) who is supposed to be playing the ugly duckling of the movie (but... she is very pretty in actuality) in a little town. Needy is best friends with a girl named Jennifer (Megan Fox), who after a series of events, suddenly becomes a blood/flesh eating beast who chooses boys from their school as victims. Now, Needy must find out how to stop her because Jennifer has set sights on her boyfriend Chip (Johnny Simmons).

The plot seems reasonable when you read it in summary.
But, there are so many things they put in there that are supposed to be twists, that just take all of the possible seriousness out of film.
The one that made me tilt my head the most involved the connection the 2 main character shared, and how it was so strong. They try and make it symbolic, but it pulled moans and groans from the audience.

The acting... umm... well, it was Megan Fox.
She isn't terrible, but most of what she does in her movies involves her saying a line, then brightening her eyes and pouting. She wasn't convincing as an actual person.
But, on the other hand, there were two people in particular who did very good jobs in this.
-Chip (Simmons) played an awkward guy in love with his girlfriend, but unsure about all of the things that are going on.
-Colin (Kyle Gallner) was an emo artsy kid who you were supposed to be both annoyed by and sympathize with.

There are always complaints from the older population about the way the younger talk. Most of the time we just roll our eyes, but this movie's slang will annoy you, no matter how young you are. The way they talk in this movie, particularly Megan Fox's character, is this weird uppity style where the words she chooses only half make sense and are said in this cute-little-girl tone.
ex: 'That guy is very good looking' turns into 'this guy is so salty'
'you make me horny' turns into 'you give me the wetties'
I am aware that this is a little complaint, but it's spread throughout the movie is a way that it you will notice it, and want it to stop.

Most of this was shot strait-on and had close ups on Megan Fox's boobs and her hair blowing in the wind (they. could. have. done. better.). But, there were some shots in there that were gorgeous where they sweep across the landscape and shoot slightly off-center and upward. Then, on the other hand, every time they had some good shots, they accompanied with very bad music choices. It ends up evening out to being average-quality scenes.

Overall, this is just a media-satisfying piece.
It has no real redeeming qualities, and you will just laugh at it the whole time (in a bad way).
It will come along, a bunch of people will see it, then it will disappear onto DVD and not be talked about anymore.
3 out of 10