JENNIFER'S BODY

Jennifer's Body is probably one of the more whacked-out movies I've seen in a while (which is really saying a lot!). It stars Megan Fox (of Transformers and Brian Austin Green fame) as a high school hottie named, of course, Jennifer and bug-eyed Amanda Seyfried plays her best friend named--and, no, I'm NOT making this up!--Needy. The film starts out with Needy in the nut house and, during the course of the movie, she explains why she's in said nut house. Apparently the trouble starts when Jennifer drags Needy to some seedy bar to see this indie rock group whom Jennifer is into. Well, during said indie rock group's set, a mysterious fire breaks out and, during the commotion (you know, bar patrons with their skin on fire and whatnot), the members of the indie rock group wind up dragging Jennifer off in their creepy van. Uh-oh! After Jennifer shows up later on that night at Needy's house all blood-soaked and spewing vile all over the kitchen floor, Needy realizes that something's up with her bestest bud, especially when boys start showing up around town with their entrails hanging out. And Jennifer finally spills the beans after an intense boner-inducing make-out session with Needy one night on Needy's bed--and this happens after Needy envisions Jennifer brutally killing a boy while she's banging her boyfriend Chip for the first time and she's screaming bloody murder (and not in the good way either!)--how she was brutally murdered by her beloved indie rock group who were--and, again, I'm NOT making this up!--offering her up as a human sacrifice to Satan so they could become rich & famous. The sacrifice didn't take because Jennifer wasn't a virgin and so the demon they summoned entered (pardon the pun!) Jennifer's body and thus needed souls--preferably of young men--to survive. Anyhow, Needy decides that Jennifer needs killing after she witnesses her killing her boyfriend Chip. I won't tell you how the movie turns out (but then, you can probably figure that out for yourself by now, can't you?). This movie, in spite of what some (or most) critics said, wasn't that bad, though, as you can imagine from reading this review, it was kind of silly at times, but, if you're into B-movie-type schlock with a boner-inducing lesbian make-out scene between two hot chicks (like, of course, yours truly!), you could wind up liking this flick as well. Hey, it sure beats trying to masturbate to Sophie's Choice! A sidenote: Diablo Cody wrote the screenplay for this film. What makes this so significant is that she actually won an Oscar for Best Original Screenplay for writing the screenplay for her critically-acclaimed film Juno. Not surprisingly, they didn't ask for her Oscar back after this film was released!