The best comment my film teacher told the class back in Phoenix was, 'if a movie has a great soundtrack with a lot of current artists, the movie is probably going to suck.' There are of course exceptions to this rule, like 'The Graduate' and 'Ghost' yet for the most part, 'Godzilla,' 'Batman Forever,' and now 'Jennifer's Body' all have fantastic pop soundtracks with a 'meh' worthy movie to follow. Megan Fox is hot. The world knows it and Diablo Cody takes full advantage of her with a semi-entertaining script that even allows for a lesbian scene that will leave teenage geeks in sci-fi softcore porn heaven...or should I say hell.
The film has the wit and knows the horror genre it is spoofing, yet it never rises above its cheesy B movie trappings to be anything more than a lot of sex, violence and 'Diablo 'Speak.' These are not the issues with 'Jennifer's Body,' the source of the problem is the script plotting. The movie spends far too much time with characters talking cleverly, leaving not much more than 15 minutes for Amanda Seyfried's character to finally take control of the situation. That's right. We get a mere 15 minutes or less of pure Megan Fox vs. Amanda Seyfried action in 'Jennifer's Body.' The reason? Poor plotting and story structure. With another rewrite this thing had potential to be a solid cult classic horror flick as is it's just an excuse to see a lot of 'near nude' Fox shots.
Dobler Rating: C
Final Thought:
'Jennifer's Body' is direct-to-DVD material disguised as theatrical entertainment. Skip it then save money by looking up near nude shots of Megan Fox online and start following Diablo Cody on Twitter to get the same daily dose of wit her movie only semi-offers.
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