I just saw Jennifer's Body and clearly there were some issues with the writing on this one!! I don't know whether to appreciate Diablo Cody's high school lingo sarcasm, or to actually hate it alltogether?!
This sexy thriller starts with a young girl named Needy (Amanda Seyfried) narrating as she goes about her day in a Correctional Facility. Needy explains how she can't be the girl she used to due to the event that led up to imprisonment; CUE flashback...
Jennifer Check (Megan Fox) is the most beautiful, conceited and popular girl in her town and her unlikely best friend and bookworm Needy has always stuck by her side since the sandbox. Needy becomes less inclined to be at her BFFs side when Jennifer gains an appetite for human blood after a terrible fire at their local bar. Needy begins to connect the dots as her male classmates begin to be brutally and mysteriously murdered ans must stop her bloodthirsty friend before she reaches her boyfriend Chip (Johnny Simmons).
While Megan Fox wasn't too bad in this film, her words were just unitelligable, high schoolish slang!! I don't of course blame Megan for this horrible jargon, but I don't know what Diablo was thinking?
It was meant to be a sexy horror film with a wicked sense of humor, but I was laughing mostly at the horrible high school language that was going on! Was that Diablo's plan?! While every line in Juno was polished nicely, the results here are a bit more hit and miss. It's obvious that Cody was going for a reversal of women-playing-the-victim type of film, however I wasn't sure of her percetption of high school lingo...
Slang like, "Freaktarded", "He's really Salty", "You're just Jealo", "You're giving me a wetty"... I mean where is this coming from? The entire movie was full of these distracting ridiculous phrases that I forgot this was a teen horror film!
Cody scored some satirical points for the manner communities handle tragedy as they used the song from the band that started all the chaos (only known to Needy and Jennifer) Low Shoulder as their anthem for strength and rememberance... However, the script definitely needed some help...
I started to think Jennifer wasn't the villian here, Cody's script was.
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