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Jennifer's Body
Mixed or average reviews
Based on 29 critic reviews
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Movie Info
Genre(s): Comedy | Horror | Sci-fi | Suspense/Thriller
Written by: Diablo Cody
Directed by: Karyn Kusama
Release Date:
Theatrical: September 18, 2009
Running Time: 102 minutes, Color
Origin: USA
Summary
RATING: R for sexuality, bloody violence, language and brief drug use
Starring Megan Fox, Amanda Seyfried, Johnny Simmons, Adam Brody, and J.K. Simmons
A sexy horror film with a wicked sense of humor, Jennifer's Body is about small town high school student Jennifer, who is possessed by a hungry demon. She transitions from being "high school evil" - gorgeous (and doesn't she know it), stuck up and ultra-attitudinal - to the real deal: evil/evil. The glittering beauty becomes a pale and sickly creature jonesing for a meaty snack, and guys who never stood a chance with the heartless babe, take on new luster in the light of Jennifer's insatiable appetite. Meanwhile, Jennifer's lifelong best friend Needy, long relegated to living in Jennifer's shadow, must step-up to protect the town's young men, including her nerdy boyfriend Chip. (20th Century Fox)
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What The Critics Said
All critic scores are converted to a 100-point scale. If a critic does not indicate a score, we assign a score based on the general impression given by the text of the review. Learn more...
Slate Dana Stevens
A wicked black comedy with unexpected emotional resonance, one of the most purely pleasurable movies of the year so far.
Read Full Review >Film Threat Nick Antosca
The difference between “Juno” and Jennifer’s Body, I realized, was that Diablo Cody's disgustingly smug dialogue -- supposedly so winning when spoken by Juno -- is much easier to swallow when it comes from characters who actually are disgustingly smug -- like Jennifer.
Read Full Review >Chicago Sun-Times Roger Ebert
It's not art, it's not “Juno,” it's not “Girlfight,” for that matter, but as a movie about a flesh-eating cheerleader, it's better than it has to be.
Read Full Review >The New York Times A.O. Scott
The movie deserves -- and is likely to win -- a devoted cult following, despite its flaws.
Read Full Review >New York Post Lou Lumenick
The “Transformers” hottie undergoes her very own transformation here, thanks to satanic possession.
Read Full Review >Miami Herald Rene Rodriguez
Not since Brian De Palma's "Carrie" has a horror movie so effectively exploited the genre as a metaphor for adolescent angst, female sexuality and the strange, sometimes corrosive bonds between girls who claim to be best friends.
Read Full Review >Philadelphia Inquirer Carrie Rickey
As a horror movie, Jennifer's Body doesn't fully deliver. But as a comic allegory of what it's like to be an adolescent girl who comes into sexual and social power that she doesn't know what the heck to do with, it is a minor classic.
Read Full Review >Time Out New York Joshua Rothkopf
The movie has a centerfold sheen to it--and some lesbianic soft-core flirtation to match--as its plot dives deeply into "Twilight"-esque heavy-melo meltdown in the last act. Cody throws one too many losses at Needy; the screenwriter loses her satiric way about halfway through. But for a while, this has real fangs.
Read Full Review >Washington Post Ann Hornaday
Admittedly, this is the stuff of lurid adolescent distraction, not great cinema. Jennifer's Body is strictly a niche item but provides a goofy, campy bookend to "Drag Me to Hell" on the B-movie shelf. Watch it, forget it, move on.
Read Full Review >Empire Nick de Semlyen
Fox is fun as a demonic harpy, but sadly the meeting of Hollywood’s two rock’n’roll queens is closer to safe studio product than slash-and-burn envelope-pusher.
Read Full Review >Portland Oregonian M. E. Russell
Performances are for the most part strong, especially Seyfried's, and Kusama uses Fox well, making the most of the actress' blank-eyed arrogance. It's not a performance that suggests a lot of range, but it's fun to watch.
Read Full Review >San Francisco Chronicle Peter Hartlaub
Enjoy the film for its witty dialogue and fun performances, but know that there isn't a single good scare. An episode of "Murder, She Wrote" has more thrills.
Read Full Review >Baltimore Sun Michael Sragow
The one perfect aspect of Jennifer's Body is its title: No one is going to like this movie for its brain.
Read Full Review >Los Angeles Times Robert Abele
Diablo Cody's glib teen-hip dialogue mostly feels like self-conscious splatter over a sorely lackluster scare flick.
Read Full Review >St. Louis Post-Dispatch Joe Williams
You ought to have a movie that's both smart and sexy. But Jennifer's Body is neither. Most damning of all, it's not scary.
Read Full Review >The Hollywood Reporter Kirk Honeycutt
A campy pastiche of horror and high-school movie cliches, the film only rises above standard-issue scare fare by dint of Cody's sneaky sense of humor.
Read Full Review >Chicago Tribune Michael Phillips
The movie’s partially redeemed by Seyfried, who makes her character more than a repository for audience sympathy. (Her make-out scene with Fox is handled with more suspense and care than anything else in the movie.)
Read Full Review >New York Daily News Joe Neumaier
Words and story are still the lifeblood of a movie, and Jennifer's Body is filled like a Twinkie with half-fleshed-out ideas.
Read Full Review >Austin Chronicle Marjorie Baumgarten
An attempt to infuse some girl power into their mash-up of cheeky horror films and teen-angst movies. The result is more mash than smash as Jennifer’s Body squanders its initial good will by failing to deliver the goods on either score.
Read Full Review >Variety Justin Chang
This high school horror romp tackles its bad-girl-gone-really-bad premise with eye-rolling obviousness and, fatally, a near-total absence of real scares.
Read Full Review >Boston Globe Ty Burr
Jennifer’s Body falls into the dispiriting category of dumb movies made by smart people, in this case a glibly clever writer and a talented director who think a few wisecracks are enough to subvert the teen horror genre.
Read Full Review >Chicago Reader Noah Berlatsky
Overall, though, the flashes of competence just emphasize the extent to which the film has no idea what it's doing.
Read Full Review >ReelViews James Berardinelli
Jennifer's Body mixes, matches, and crosses three popular genres: horror, comedy, and teen angst. Unfortunately, it fails at all of them - and "fails" might be too kind a term.
Read Full Review >Salon.com Stephanie Zacharek
So contemptuous toward its own characters, and its audience, that it chokes off any visceral thrills it might have offered. The movie substitutes calculation for brains, and the filmmakers seem to think we'll all be too stupid to notice.
Read Full Review >Village Voice Nick Pinkerton
This is the sophomore production from "Juno" screenwriter Diablo Cody, similarly told through ultra-stylized slangy teen dialogue, which is cool, in theory, in the way it respects the verbal resourcefulness of idle flyover kids, but is excruciating to listen to in actual fact.
Read Full Review >What Our Users Said
The average user rating for this movie is 5.3 (out of 10) based on 62 User Votes
Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.
Chris V gave it a7:
What can i say about this film?? Well, i think it could have been better, but, it was alright.. just alright, the soundtrack rules, but the movie, its.. aaaaahhh.. so so.
Steve A. gave it a4:
This movie was mediocre. It was neither good nor bad. The end was anticlimactic. There were no twists, scares, or surprises. Most of the acting was decent enough. However, Fox was somewhat subdued in it. I don't think it's fair to compare her Jolie yet; Jolie has talent to match her looks. I did like the dialogue, though. Also, I was convinced by Chip and Needy's love.
Gabby G gave it a1:
the director said herself that she was inspired by 89's movies like the lost boys and others. that i took personally. obviously she wasnt looking good enough and has never watched them! megan foz secondly is ahorrible actress. pretty but dumb! and she is known to be ungrateful for the films shes starred in.
zach gave it a6:
Been tempted to see it for awhile, finally gave in last night and what a mixed bag of reactions I have. First I'd like to point out that Megan Fox is not a horrible actress. Granted her Transformers fame doesn't provide her any dramatic merits (no shit, right?) but in "Body" she shows she has some real potential, if not being very unpolished. As for the movie itself- I get it. I get the underlying message about high school girls being evil, vulnerable, visceral creatures, etc, etc. But the wit that I expected came....and went just as quickly. The humor succumbed to something darker and more unforgiving in Fox and Seyfried's bff uproar. It's definitely a tale of innoncence lost, a building's roman with fangs and killer curves. But there was some intangible element to the film that either wasn't there or failed to pull me in. I can't say the movie was a failure- it wasn't. But while Cody makes good on the body, she seems to slightly misfire on the soul.
Michael M. gave it an8:
Megan Fox case closed.
Sarah S gave it a10:
This was advertised as a horror movie. So, I expected to see a clever horror flick. What I got, instead, was much better. "Jennifer's Body" is an incredibly sassy, colorful, tongue-in-cheek, will-be-loved-for-years-to-come film that plays with stereotypes, surprises and shocks its viewers, and best of all, serves as a hilarious metaphor for that narcissistic friend a lot of us had in high school who, we often suspected, was really an evil succubus.
Lorin P gave it an8:
Yay! A coming-of-age movie for girls. Such a nice change. But instead of the yawn-inducing mission to get laid, it's about a girl's desire to get a good meal-- and end the date on her terms. Wicked fun. More, please.
