Friday, October 22, 2010

Jennifer's Body - 2009 * * 1/2


When I started watching this film I actually thought it was going to turn out well. I know that Megan Fox is well known for not being able to string a sentence together ( just as well she's very beautiful) but I had heard she was actually really good in this.
To be honest half the time I couldn't tell if she was just being herself or trying to act in a weird, spaced out way ( and no it's nothing to do with the fact she's a weird demonic vampire-type creature which you could probably imagine would make you feel more than spaced out) that she thought was good acting. The story follows Jennifer, the beautiful and conceited cheerleader who all the boys fancy and her best friend, the quiet and retiring 'Needy' (played by Amanda Seyfried). Although being best friends they couldn't really be more different and when Jennifer persuades Needy to come with her to watch a new band play in a bar hoping to score with one of them the night takes on a strange and terrifying twist ( to them, not to us).
Some of the film is a bit eerie but most is just ridiculously stupid serving for nothing other than a platform to show Megan Fox off in a series of revealing outfits to the giggling teenage boys who have crept into the film illegaly to have a gawp. Not really a girl's film which is a shame as it eliminates half the population but still, films nowadays are all about the 'a** not the acting.'

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