Jennifer's Body Review – Hell Is a Teenage Girl
From Horror Hacker Maitland McDonagh on Jennifer’s body:
What are those strange drops of blood on Jennifer’s body? OK, the Giallo geek in me couldn’t resist, and to be honest, they’re less like drops than pools of blood. But I’m getting ahead of myself.
“Hell is a teenage girl,” observes Anita “Needy” Lesnicki (Amanda Seyfried) in Karen Kusama’s Jennifer’s Body. Needy has more than earned her nickname through years of playing Betty to Jennifer Check’s (Megan Fox) bitchy, vixenish Veronica. It’s always been the two of them against the small-town world, bantering in their own slang (a variation on writer Diablo Cody’s Juno-speak) and thrilling to the fact that their friendship (toxic though it may be) baffles the cliquish sheep who can’t see beyond labels like “cheerleader” and “science geek.” Without bossy Jennifer taking the lead, Needy’s life would be a whole lot duller. Jennifer is well on her way to being too hot for their tiny hometown (pop. 7083) to handle, even if it is named Devil’s Kettle. But as long as Jennifer sticks around, Needy is happy to tag along, even it means going to a backroad dump because Jennifer is crushing on the lead singer of Low Shoulder, some cooler-than-thou indie band she saw on MySpace.
Of course, that particular adventure doesn’t turn out so well: The bar is destroyed in a freakish fire that litters the charred ground with grotesquely burned corpses, and Jennifer follows cocksure rocker Nikolai (Adam Brody, of TV’s The OC) into the band’s grody van, only to reappear hours later blood-streaked, bedraggled and vomiting black goo.
Jennifer seems fine the following day; in fact, she looks even better than usual, aglow with feral energy that draws boys like moths to a flame. Only Needy notices that those very same boys are the ones who show up later as cannibalized corpses. But who would believe that Jennifer has crossed the line from high-school evil into real evil?
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