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• Currently 2/5 Stars.

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• • Currently 3/5 Stars.

  dainiux

  

  here's the darker, sexier high school evil creatures/vampires thriller ;)(oh, it's a demon you say? we're not sure

• • Currently 2/5 Stars.

  WildRose86

  

  Girlie Horror would be the best wasy to describe this. Yes, look at Megan Fox's body, but the dialouge in this is so terribly awful that it's brilliant, in fact it's salty. Some lesbian action, a terribly pretty goth boy along with plenty of gore. Not bad visuals.

• • Currently 1/5 Stars.

  Al Coe

  

  This movie does not know whether it wants to be a teen slasher movie or a high school comedy, it’s actually hard to believe that Diablo Cody wrote this when Juno was so enjoyable and well this isn’t , the so called horror comic moments aren’t funny at all and all,no one was laughing in the screening I was at and I think everyone walked away wondering what was that?, The movie will probably only appeal to 16 year old boys who fancy Megan Fox and girls who are her fans, which they both will probably flock to, There is nothing to any of the characters and who end up not really caring what happens to anyone. If you want to see this I would wait for the DVD or until it’s on t.v.

• • Currently 3/5 Stars.

  gmiskelly

  

  Not half bad....decent gory trashy fun...with some excellent lines

• • Currently 3/5 Stars.

  annapmurphy

  

  Really enjoyed this movie. It didnt try to be anything it wasnt, lots of jumps & lots of laughter.

• • Currently 1/5 Stars.

  ssconnolly

  

  Jennifer's Body is Oscar winning screenwriter Diablo Cody's mildly anticipated follow up to the hugely popular Juno. In this film she incorporates her own kind of humour with a dark and gritty story which includes devil worship, cannibalism, emo's and a lot of dead young men. Unfortunately from the start the whole affair seems a bit off. Firstly there are a lot of problems which arise due to the attempts at comic relief. For a start Cody succeeded in making the humour as original as it was in Juno but nowhere near as funny. I mean Juno was hilarious but every joke in this film fails to provide a laugh because even if they were funny, which they weren't, they just didn't compliment the general tone of the film. Also the actual story is quite poor, for those who don't know a devil worshiping indie band sacrifice Jennifer thinking she's a virgin so that they can become famous. The thing is because she wasn't a virgin a demon stays in her and she must eat people to stay alive. Absolutely ridiculous story and there are other smaller things and useless scenes which make it even more ridiculous and slow down the dramatic momentum. Firstly there is a character in it, Mr. Wroblewski the teacher who has a hook for a hand. Now this is a fact that I figured would somehow come back into the story but it is never even acknowledged by anyone. Secondly we find out in the last ten minutes or so that Jennifer can levitate. This is used twice in the film, with about 2 minutes in between them and the second time it is used to show the end of Jennifer and Needy's friendship but it was as if this idea came about while shooting the final scenes and it was very badly done. Also I think the characters should've been written differently. For example Megan Fox/Jennifer transforms from a stuck up bitch to a stuck up bitch who eats people. The only thing that really changed was her diet and I couldn't help but think if Amanda Seyfried's character had the exact same change it would've been a lot more interesting. Perhaps the most annoying thing in the film was the fact that the devil worshiping band throughout the film become slowly but surely glorified and made out to be almost god-like. One of the biggest disappointments of the film was the cast performances. Megan Fox has finally proven that behind the stunning good looks there isn't a talented actress. She almost fooled everyone by losing her clothes a couple of times but it's inevitable that you will discover just how bad she is by the end of the film. Amanda Seyfried also failed to impress. I didn't like her after seeing Mamma Mia and this has only reinforced my opinions of her. Adam Brody was brilliant as one of the band members but was horribly underused. So all in all this is quite a poor film. The intense scenes were continuously let down by failed attempts at humour. It tried to be original but did so nowhere near as successfully as Juno. This film would be perfect for the post-Twilight 12 year olds but sadly for the people who invested in this film they are kept out by the 16 cert in Ireland and so it won't become as much of a phenomenon. I did quite like the direction of the film although it was very difficult to appreciate due to unbearably terrible story and cast displays. "Hell is a teenage girl" says Needy in the opening line of the film but in my opinion hell is watching this film for 102 minutes constantly hoping it will improve only for it to go the opposite way. I know it is a bit unfair to expect a lot from Diablo Cody but I just think that this shows that perhaps she is not as good a sriptwriter as her previous work would suggest.

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